Yesterday I lost 11 BTC from my Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet. The wallet wasn't open at the time. I don't know how it happened. Lots of emotions right now.
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Definitely not my wife. We live in a rural setting. She doesn't have the computer knowledge to even launch the wallet. This was an external hack.
I first noticed when I logged into Koinly and saw my BTC balance was reduced. I then launched Bitcoin Core and it was about a week behind. Showed my 11btc as it updated, then hit the date of the hack and it went to zero. Wallet is encrypted and appears to work fine. PC is turned off now and hard drives will be wiped. This definitely sucks, but not the end of the world. Opportunity for others to learn or be reminded from my mistakes.
Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address
edit to add:
Definitely not my wife. We live in a rural setting. She doesn't have the computer knowledge to even launch the wallet. This was an external hack.
I first noticed when I logged into Koinly and saw my BTC balance was reduced. I then launched Bitcoin Core and it was about a week behind. Showed my 11btc as it updated, then hit the date of the hack and it went to zero. Wallet is encrypted and appears to work fine. PC is turned off now and hard drives will be wiped. This definitely sucks, but not the end of the world. Opportunity for others to learn or be reminded from my mistakes.
Also, the coins have not moved from hacker address
First things first, why would you store 11 btc on a hot wallet ? 11 bitcoin is a lot of money, and you should either have a hardware wallet for that purpose or if you are a bit techy, an air gapped device (with no access to the internet) should be configured for your bitcoins.
11 bitcoin is a life's money for someone and there are places in the world where you do not have to worl for the rest of your life if you have 11 bitcoins with you
Yes, I can see the coins moved in to two addresses in the explorer
Is this possible that you can share the transaction hashes? Someone may try to dig more once they know which transactions we are taking about. Whether the coins were moved to exchanges and all such investigations?