Do not let the same thing happen to you before you know the importance of having a hardware wallet, I have always known that hardware wallet is the safest but I ignored it,
Don’t get me wrong but I wouldn’t say hardware wallets are actually the safest or most secure way to save your bitcoins but rather I will broaden it as cold or offline storage is the best. Other offline storage can be the use of software wallets like electrum been set up in an airgapped device with it never coming online or interacting with the internet. This method seems more secure to some people than even hardware wallets.
but i never got hacked, you can provide the reasons which maybe got you hacked so we can learn from your mistake, like what you had done before losing your crypto, and things like that.
also it seems big amount for a hardware wallet but its important to buy one if we need to hold for long term, maybe our $100 bitcoin be worth $500 after sometime.
OP got his private keys exposed which is one area we neglect mostly. It is the side effect of using a software wallet but also people using hardware wallets they neglect the importance of keeping it safe. Not all wallets attacks are through interacting with the internet some could be a physical attack like someone stealing your private key or seed phrase. That’s why even if you’re using a hardware wallet it is important to also keep save the private keys or seed phrase