Crypto Drained / White Hat hacker

L-Dog

L-Dog

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Hey Guys

Not a great day, my crypto wallets were both drained and still not sure if it was a bad link I clicked or if my seed phrase from compromised. Anyone have an idea how I can find out or know any whire hat hackers ?

This is the wallet that stole the assets

0xc2926655dC02dD8C2a2e88d45aEC2b57eDE1954d

Pretty sure I am screwed just need to figure out of my pc or my wallet is compromised
 
L-Dog said:
Hey Guys

Not a great day, my crypto wallets were both drained and still not sure if it was a bad link I clicked or if my seed phrase from compromised. Anyone have an idea how I can find out or know any whire hat hackers ?

This is the wallet that stole the assets

0xc2926655dC02dD8C2a2e88d45aEC2b57eDE1954d

Pretty sure I am screwed just need to figure out of my pc or my wallet is compromised
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How did you normally access your wallet? Via desktop app, mobile app, web app or browser extention, Metamask perhaps?
 
Use rabby / meta mask. Have it on my work and home pc. Not an expert but it seems to have been a seedphrase leam maybe malware on the system. Assets also stolen over a period of an hour so assume it was a seed phrase leak
 
L-Dog said:
Hey Guys

Not a great day, my crypto wallets were both drained and still not sure if it was a bad link I clicked or if my seed phrase from compromised. Anyone have an idea how I can find out or know any whire hat hackers ?

This is the wallet that stole the assets

0xc2926655dC02dD8C2a2e88d45aEC2b57eDE1954d

Pretty sure I am screwed just need to figure out of my pc or my wallet is compromised
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Was it an online wallet or a device? Where did you purchase it from? New or 2nd hand? Or is it via a local exchange or so?

From what I can see its an Ethereum wallet. Was is ETH or ETC? Because ETC had a big flaw where a hacker simply drained wallets while people were watching and then changes were made and it switched to ETH.

ETH is very popular for hacking.
www.bleepingcomputer.com

Hacker steals record $1.46 billion from Bybit ETH cold wallet

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit revealed today that an unknown attacker stole over $1.46 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its ETH cold wallets.
www.bleepingcomputer.com www.bleepingcomputer.com

Also never ever use a 2nd hand Crypto wallet or one where you bought it on discount from a suspicious person. Normally its best to check if its still in a sealed state or opened, because you can pretty much clone the wallet with the keys, then sell it on. The person didnt suspect it and load up the wallet, then you simply restore the wallet with the keys and empty the person's wallet into your own. And then bye bye your money is gone too.

I prefer coinomi as a wallet, been using it for years. No real 2FA authentication but no problems with it either.
 
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Corelli said:
Was it an online wallet or a device? Where did you purchase it from? New or 2nd hand? Or is it via a local exchange or so?

From what I can see its an Ethereum wallet. Was is ETH or ETC? Because ETC had a big flaw where a hacker simply drained wallets while people were watching and then changes were made and it switched to ETH.

ETH is very popular for hacking.
www.bleepingcomputer.com

Hacker steals record $1.46 billion from Bybit ETH cold wallet

Cryptocurrency exchange Bybit revealed today that an unknown attacker stole over $1.46 billion worth of cryptocurrency from one of its ETH cold wallets.
www.bleepingcomputer.com www.bleepingcomputer.com

Also never ever use a 2nd hand Crypto wallet or one where you bought it on discount from a suspicious person. Normally its best to check if its still in a sealed state or opened, because you can pretty much clone the wallet with the keys, then sell it on. The person didnt suspect it and load up the wallet, then you simply restore the wallet with the keys and empty the person's wallet into your own. And then bye bye your money is gone too.

I prefer coinomi as a wallet, been using it for years. No real 2FA authentication but no problems with it either.
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SO I have metamask / rabby insatlled on my work and home pc. I also have pocket universe that simulates any transaction before you approve it, I had assets on various chains ETH / Hype / Base / Sonic and was providing LP's on various platforms from different wallets. It appears my seed phrase was stolen not a bad link I clicked on. Might have been malware or someone got onto my PC as it is saved as an image on my pc. Could also have been my work pc that I recently replaced.

Dont have 2FA on as I make numerous transactions daily. I have 2FA on with exhanges but not my MM wallet which is were I kept most of my crypto for trading. NO idea how the seed phrase was stolen which I assume is what happend as some of my nfts were also sold. Have been able to recover about $2k from items locked up but the other 95% seems to be gone
 
L-Dog said:
Hey Guys

Not a great day, my crypto wallets were both drained and still not sure if it was a bad link I clicked or if my seed phrase from compromised. Anyone have an idea how I can find out or know any whire hat hackers ?

This is the wallet that stole the assets

0xc2926655dC02dD8C2a2e88d45aEC2b57eDE1954d

Pretty sure I am screwed just need to figure out of my pc or my wallet is compromised
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Perhaps go read up on white hat hackers and "hackers" first?
 
That sucks.

Sorry for your loss bro.

**Reply typed on a DELL Latitude 5400 gift**
 
L-Dog said:
Hey Guys

Not a great day, my crypto wallets were both drained and still not sure if it was a bad link I clicked or if my seed phrase from compromised. Anyone have an idea how I can find out or know any whire hat hackers ?

This is the wallet that stole the assets

0xc2926655dC02dD8C2a2e88d45aEC2b57eDE1954d

Pretty sure I am screwed just need to figure out of my pc or my wallet is compromised
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here's the wallet...

etherscan.io

Ethereum Transactions Information | Etherscan

Transactions that have been mined and confirmed on the Ethereum Blockchain. The list consists of transactions from sending Ether and the transactions for interacting with a smart contract.
etherscan.io etherscan.io

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Sorry, but you'll never get any of it back.

This is why you MUST have your crypto on a cold wallet, go buy a ledger or safepal etc, sure if you want to trade then use Binance etc which is perfectly safe, but a cold wallet is 99.99% safe whilst Binance with 2FA and more might be 95% safe, these other sites can be seriously low on the "safety" rank... use them for moving in and out quickly that's it.

hope it wasn't a lot
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
here's the wallet...

etherscan.io

Ethereum Transactions Information | Etherscan

Transactions that have been mined and confirmed on the Ethereum Blockchain. The list consists of transactions from sending Ether and the transactions for interacting with a smart contract.
etherscan.io etherscan.io

--------------

Sorry, but you'll never get any of it back.

This is why you MUST have your crypto on a cold wallet, go buy a ledger or safepal etc, sure if you want to trade then use Binance etc which is perfectly safe, but a cold wallet is 99.99% safe whilst Binance with 2FA and more might be 95% safe, these other sites can be seriously low on the "safety" rank... use them for moving in and out quickly that's it.

hope it wasn't a lot
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Yeah found it on debank tracked it to Bybit but you need to open a police case and then the cops need to contact Bybit so basically screwed. Yeah lost $25k but I guess it's school fees, still no idea how I was hacked but upgraded security on all my devices and splitting capital between exchanges aswell.
 
L-Dog said:
Yeah found it on debank tracked it to Bybit but you need to open a police case and then the cops need to contact Bybit so basically screwed. Yeah lost $25k but I guess it's school fees, still no idea how I was hacked but upgraded security on all my devices and splitting capital between exchanges aswell.
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fml that's a lot, sorry

cold wallet, just transfer in and out... much safer

fml that's a lot of cash
 
Yeah my seed phrase was leaked so not much I can do. I have a few claims / airdrops coming but as soon as it hits the wallet a bot transfers it out so currently thinking of a solution to salvage what I have left in this wallet...
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
This is why you MUST have your crypto on a cold wallet, go buy a ledger
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Excuse my ignorance, but it is on the block chain (single source of truth), right, so if you have the right passwords you can access it anyway? So how does a ledger help?
 
@purrr

BTC is always on the blockchain no matter where it is held.
A cold wallet stores your private keys <-- only you can move it then, and it proves you own it.
It stores your private keys and never exposes them or sends it to your computer or puts it on the internet..

If someone has your seed phrase then they can recreate your entire wallet <-- not your passwords etc, only the seed phrase which is unbreakable

So a cold wallet stores your private keys offline
 
Wrath of Khan MD said:
@purrr

BTC is always on the blockchain no matter where it is held.
A cold wallet stores your private keys <-- only you can move it then, and it proves you own it.
It stores your private keys and never exposes them or sends it to your computer or puts it on the internet..

If someone has your seed phrase then they can recreate your entire wallet <-- not your passwords etc, only the seed phrase which is unbreakable

So a cold wallet stores your private keys offline
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Ok so if I get your private key then the ledger is pointless?
 
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