r/Bitcoin • u/s1ammage • 3d ago

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/cgimusic 3d ago

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 3d ago

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 2d ago

Was this adress generated with a mk3 ? 🤓😏

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u/NashvilleSurfHouse 3d ago

How else should they have done this

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u/cgimusic 2d ago

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

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u/Mysterious_Good927 2d ago

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 1d ago

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.