Timeline for I transferred BTC from my blockchain wallet to my trading wallet using my can to address and it never showed up!
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| Mar 5, 2021 at 22:39 | comment | added | Robherc KV5ROB | That's why it is highly recommended to generate wallets for any "high value" cryptocurrency storage using a hardware wallet device, or on a computer that you never connect to the internet. That way you can use the less secure exchanges & web wallets with funds that won't hurt you as badly if they're lost, but transfer to the "cold storage" wallets for long-term safekeeping. | |
| Mar 5, 2021 at 22:36 | comment | added | Robherc KV5ROB | It's not necessarily your wallet that got hacked, so much as your blockchain account, I'm guessing. Hacking a wallet is only as difficult as hacking the computer where the private key is stored, HOWEVER, many exchanges and "web wallets" use their own wallets to hold the funds, and their system just keeps track of which user's account those funds belong to. On such a platform, anyone who hacked your exchange/web wallet account wouldn't need your private keys, just access to tell the server that your account asked for the transfer. | |
| Mar 4, 2021 at 21:11 | comment | added | Caligirl | Robherc KV5ROB Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it. How can a wallet be hacked? I thought it was almost impossible? Although I did hear someone say that Blockchain has holes in their platform and isn’t that secure. Have you experienced such a thing? I confirmed the transfers on the block and it looks like an exchange of some sort but I can not tell. How would a wallet get hacked where they would have visibility to my transactions? I am learning & trying to understand before I do anything else with crypto.I was so scared I went to my bank and told them to block online access | |
| Mar 1, 2021 at 22:06 | comment | added | Robherc KV5ROB | That does sound odd, but in order to make much sense of it I would have to see a lot more data on the wallets in question. ... from what you say, however, it seems highly likely that your account was hacked, and the hacker may have been forced to duplicated previous transaction patterns as part of a security glitch that they were exploiting. | |
| Feb 28, 2021 at 21:29 | comment | added | Caligirl | Thank you so much for your answer. Here is the issue... Now that I have done more research I was locked out of my wallet when the transfer occurred. I have no idea who’s address the transaction went to. What is odd though is that I transferred my bit coin in 2 transactions. 1/2/2021 I transferred 0.00933272 BTC from my coinbase account and then I did a second transaction on 1/14/2021 0.01063528 BTC from the same coinbase wallet. Then on 1/17/2021 who ever took my money did it in the same order. Is that strange? Or am I just thinking it is odd? | |
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| Jan 24, 2021 at 14:04 | history | answered | Robherc KV5ROB | CC BY-SA 4.0 |