Quote from: Guinness336 on August 17, 2014, 02:02:39 AM

Guys,

My wallet just got hacked!!! Is there anything I can do? Huh

I feel your pain buddy. I had something like 8000 XPM stolen at a time when they were worth over $10k. I had my wallet.dat cloned. What was worse was that I was mining heavily and had many immature blocks and spent a day "racing" the thief to see who could transfer the coins out first as they matured. My local wallet was encrypted and my machine was clean of trojans/viruses, so the conclusion I came to was that at some point early in my mining I had an unencrypted wallet.dat on a VPS somewhere and that I had left an image/instance alive, which was subsequently compromised. It would have been months after creating the wallet.dat that it got cloned and it was certainly encrypted the whole time other than the first minutes/hours when I started mining. Ah well.

I then managed to delete a BTCD wallet.dat after a few days of mining by fat fingering a shift+delete. I don't remember exactly how much was in it, but I know it was well north of 20k, probably 24-25k. Of course they have gone up in value significantly too Sad

That crucified me and it took a lot of courage to buy some back. I now only hold a few k. I wanted a lot more, which is why I mined so frantically with leased and borrowed rigs, but I simply can't afford it now. Isn't crypto fun?

Incidentally how much did you lose? Not that it matters, I'm sure it meant a lot to you no matter how much it was.