Any question relating to theft of bitcoins from a wallet (excluding scams - which has a separate tag)
Questions tagged [theft]
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How is all this bitcoin theft happening?
When reading many stories about bitcoin theft, what is the usual gist? Dont most of these hackers get digital wallets that are encrypted? How do they make use of it, crack it...or its not encrypted at all?
Takahashi Nakamoto
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How could BTC be used and transacted on a daily basis without physical theft?
I just feel a gaping hole in my logic, or maybe a duplicate question, so I'm prepared to quickly remove this question.
I was wondering how theft could be prevented in an economy that relies primarily on a cryptocurrency such as BTC. I own BTC, so I…
bittenfig
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My friend's address was spent right after I paid him. What happened?
Last time I sent some bitcoin to my friend and the fee that I used was a little low, so I tried to broadcast the tx with online broadcasters. After that the tx was spent from my friend's address (not from mine). It showed that my tx confirmed, but…
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Someone has sent money to my wallet, then got them back with everything else in a wallet
I had about 0.02 bitcoins in my wallet for couple of years, but when I've started bitcoin wallet last time I've found out three transactions (two incoming and one outgoing), which I've never authorized:
4/1/18 18:51 Confirmed (2508 confirmations).…
shtolik
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Bitcoin Stolen from Wallet, where do I stand?
I had 4 coins on an old laptop and went to move them to a new wallet only to find out they had all been removed and sent elsewhere in 2014.
To: 1KM6rLnwgD67wRdMx9aVLRf1gfoNyCyv7Q
Debit: -3.93584800 BTC
This was to buy a house for me and my family…
inTheGrind
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Trace and contact bitcoin thief
My btc-e account was hacked (or my passwords stolen from my computer). I was able to make screenshots while they were withdrawing my bitcoins. So i have the btc wallet adress where the money went to and I have the ip adress of the thief.
Is there…
Martijn
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Upon sending remaining wallet contents emptied?
Three addresses involved in this TX.
Address A: My Wallet Address
Address B: Recipients Wallet (Coinbase) Address
Address C: Unknown!
These are not the exact numbers but the transaction went like so. Wallet A (encrypted) containing 2.0 BTC.…
Linef4ult
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