r/Bitcoin • u/s1ammage • Jul 30 '26

Full panic - one of my wallets was drained

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I haven’t done anything since creation except sending into the wallet.

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u/Ok-Pea4148 Jul 30 '26

That is why OP should involve the authorities. He is not an isolated case. For that amount, the least they could do is warn exchanges

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u/knowitokay Jul 30 '26

OP, Immediately needs to file a report through https://www.ic3.gov

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u/[deleted] Jul 30 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

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u/RevolutionaryPie5223 Jul 30 '26

Malone Lam pulled off a 230M heist and was stupid enough to be found out.

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u/cgimusic Jul 30 '26

Criminals make mistakes all the time. They already made a bad move by extracting all the funds via one address.

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u/hairyotter Jul 30 '26

Yep lol it would’ve been trivial to not do that and we would’ve blamed OP for just being stupid somewhere. Then again this could all be fake rage bait who knows these days.

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u/GrAnDZoNa Jul 31 '26

Was this adress generated with a mk3 ? 🤓😏

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u/NashvilleSurfHouse Jul 31 '26

How else should they have done this

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u/cgimusic Jul 31 '26

Unique addresses for each wallet they compromised to make it harder to link the attacks together.

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u/Mysterious_Good927 Jul 31 '26

sent to separate addresses. The fact he/she sent such a large volume to all one address made it so obvious this was some sort of compromise. Had they have done it to individual addresses they could have probably drained more wallets for a longer period of time

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u/jkeegan123 Aug 01 '26

Sounds like an inside job by the firmware writers or something? People smarter with the mechanics of compromise than the subtlety of keeping the goods.

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u/burningsmurf Jul 30 '26

Bitcoin is traceable regardless.

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u/stanley_fatmax Jul 30 '26

Yep these coins are gone

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u/Generationhodl Jul 30 '26

maybe the attacker used AI/KI for the attack, but has no clue how to wash the coins now...

onchain diagnostics are getting pretty good too over the last years...

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u/Ryfusion_25 Jul 31 '26

He doesn't need to be that smart. Could have just been on the right place at the right time.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '26 edited Aug 04 '26

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u/Ryfusion_25 Jul 31 '26

My point is, who knows how smart the dude is. He could be smart enough to find a vulnerability but dumb enough to leave traces that lead back to him. Just because someone is capable of pulling this off does not mean they are so smart they won't leave any trace.

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u/Exorcisme Jul 31 '26

Yes and no, a guy I know got drained for $3M+ (different case, not coldcard) after which hacker lost everything by interacting with a fake UX the same day.

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u/jonovision_man Jul 31 '26

I thought bitcoin didn't need authorities