Hey community,
I have a problem with my Electrum wallet and keep wondering how this could have happened.
Today, I opened my Electrum wallet for the first time since in a few month and noticed that a transaction was made, resulting in an empty wallet. It definitely wasn’t me.
I’m not sure if I opened Electrum and left it running for a few minutes while completing other tasks before fully checking the program. The transaction happened 10 minutes before I noticed it. If I followed the BTC chain correctly, my BTCs were transferred to a Robinhood wallet, so it clearly wasn’t me.
I know the money is gone, and I’ll have to live with that. However, I keep asking myself: how could this even happen? Is this a real Trojan attack where they scan for open wallets?
Maybe someone can help me understand how this could have occurred.
Thanks a lot!
Did you by any chance click on any link or download an update? Maybe there might have been a fake update prompt and once you download any of such updates, you become a victim. If this is not the case, you should be very careful next time when clicking links or downloading anything and ensure that you always download updates from Electrum's official website only.
Since you said the transaction happened 10 minutes before you noticed it, I would have assumed that someone who knows you must have had access to your seedphrase which he used to initiate the transaction. Anything must have happened, so be extremely careful next time.