Ethereum

Computer malware

What happened to this sub? It used to be good but I guess that was years ago

Hacked money is usually gone for good.

The most valuable thing is to:

a) Find out how it happened and what you did wrong

b) Take actions in future to prevent it

Did you have a hardware wallet that requires you to physically approve transactions on the external device before metamask submits them? If not, that would be the first step. Trezor I prefer over Ledger, because Ledger's lax security allows data leaks exposing us to scammer contacts and they had some other questionable plans.

Did you store your seed phrase somewhere secure and inaccessible to 3rd parties or internet?

Did you use a seed passphrase when setting up your wallet (13th word or 25th word) that require you to type that passphrase when doing a transaction?

These might sound like a pain, but they're really pretty easy once you've done it once and it prevents malware from executing transactions on your PC without you physical approval.

Crypto is bullshit. All the time it gets hacked. New controversy arises every day.

Your funds are lost. This is in the very nature of the blockchain, transactions are irreversible. You’ve been scammed. Anyone claiming that can help you is another scammer trying to scam you again. Sorry for your loss - you need to move on.

I m so sorry to hear this. Revoke.cash to revoke given permissions is the only thing you could do. Consider your wallet burned and the money gone. There s no way to get your assets back once they get transferred out.

No problem. Just call Metamask customer service. They'll happily fix things for you.

Oh wait.. you're your own bank. Never mind.

Damn . That Sucks 🦫

Post the wallet address

If you have a ton of crypto, use a hardware wallet. while i don’t think you got hacked a hardware wallet should be the first thing people invest in - ESPECIALLY if your holding it for a while.

My rule is if you crypto value exceeds 2x the price of a hardware wallet, get the wallet (that’s basically saying if you have >200 in crypto just get cold storage)

I see lots of inaccurate info or assumptions about what transactions/data that the OP signed in this thread

Based on the native ether send in the tx hash OP posted, this is a private-key level compromise. Since the OP didn't mention signing anything and said multiple wallets were emptied it's most likely the seed phrase was exposed in some way. Could be related to the LastPass breach or maybe it was pushed to github accidentally.

My metamask also got drained a while back. likely they have got access to your PC and hacked your metamask key and logged the password when you typed on keyboard. Could have been a malicious program or email phishing. This is what happened to me anyway.

Another warning: do not use MetaMask or any browser extension wallet for anything other than screwing around or testing contracts. It is NOT secure.

Why do you have a “ton of ETH” on a hot wallet?

Get a hardware Wallet.

Long story short, calling the police or whatever wont give you the money back.

You just waste your time doing so, there is not much hope getting the funds back

sorry to hear that but ur eth is gone

happened to me recently too after years in crypto, yes its the users fault but the users are human so we slip up sometimes!.

file a police report, clean ur wallets, and learn ur lesson (:

All this debate when the real solution is to buy a ledger.

this is almost always smartcontract related. Check your wallet spending permissions - i believe etherscan has a util for that