All my money has been stolen from Electrum
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I was never robbed before. I have never had virus problems.
I installed Electrum at 2022/12/14, created a Wallet using the program. Added a secret password. And transferred all my BTC from Binance to Electrum. All the process went fine.
Today 2024/08/29 I opened Electrum. All my BTC are gone. I can see a transaction made at 2023/01/03 that stolen all my BTC.
- Transaction: https://blockstream.info/tx/1a4f40b9d3e6d739dffe6ba5eda3a4b8d18e7e99cf9cae7ee0a9a9268b6a7128
- Destination (thief) account: 1Khuwa5uHycsDvugKMkMaY5zFNZ9V2mMR2
If I search in Google the destination account I can find this link:
https://103.165.193.201/address/1Khuwa5uHycsDvugKMkMaY5zFNZ9V2mMR2
That shows me that the thief was steal over 0.6 BTC. The thief stole 0.6 BTC and then took the money little by little to other accounts. During the withdrawal process he stole about 0.2 BTC from me, which is equivalent to about a thousand euros.
The first explanation that comes to mind is that a virus was able to scan my files one by one, read their contents and find one on my hard drive on which the seed words were written.
However, it seems strange to me for the following reasons:
- I am an advanced PC user. I know what I download, I know what I do.
- I always have Windows updated to its latest version.
- I use firewall, I use antivirus, I use Malwarebytes.
- It took 1 month from when I installed Electrum until I was robbed. Did the virus downloaded and installed in that specific period? Or are we talking about a virus that remains "latent" on the PC and is subsequently activated when it detects that I am using Electrum?
All of this makes me very suspicious about a possible security flaw in the Electrum program. A single user account has allegedly stolen around 330 thousand euros. How many other accounts will there be that receive stolen money with the same system?
What I can't understand is that if I really have a virus that is capable of reading all my files, why has it stolen an insignificant amount of BTC that I had in Electrum? When it could have stolen my bank passwords and other more interesting things.
If I can provide more information or collaborate in any way with you to discover any security flaws, please ask me. Thank you.
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Research direction
Start by reviewing the transaction linked in issue #9178, the destination address, and the reported wallet history. Investigate whether the evidence demonstrates an Electrum security flaw rather than a compromised seed or system. Done would require a reproducible vulnerability or a clear, supported explanation of the incident.
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Assessment
- Domain
- security
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 15/100