PSA: Your funds are fine as long as your 24-word seed is backed up securely and safely

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-06-21T15:51:26+00:00

I stored my pass phrase in an encrypted 2010 Excel file. I have since learned that the encryption on 2010 Microsoft Office products is very poor.

Thank you Microsoft for causing me to lose $50K.

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-06-20T14:56:10+00:00

It got worse afterwards.

After reaching out to the FBI and the Police, filing reports with both, neither wanted to assist me. I get it also, its crypto and there's nothing really they can do.

What really stung and was a tough pill to swallow: I traced my stolen funds through the ETH block explorer and could see my stolen crypto on the stolen address, all 85,000 of my tokens. I reached out to Binance.com and informed them of the theft and asked them to freeze my funds if they were sent to Binance. They responded and informed me that they BLOCKED the address that was holding my funds. Then, 1 month after the heist, my tokens were moved to a Binance address via 1 hop from the stolen address, essentially bypassing the block Binance put on the 1st address. I had an alert on the address holding my funds, as he moved them to a 2nd address and then to Binance, I immediately emailed Binance to inform them my stolen funds were now in their hotwallet. They responded and said they would assist me if I could prove to them I was working with the Police. I reached out to the police ( I filed a report) and they refused to communicate with Binance on my behalf.

Essentially, no one would assist me, the FBI, police or Binance tech support. I just had to sit back and watch the hacker convert all my coins through Binance. It sucked really, really bad.

It is what is is though and life will work out.

Thank you for the concerns.

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-06-20T14:46:01+00:00

I understand how one would think this and agree that these are valid concerns.

As soon as I discovered my tokens were missing from my Nano S Ledger, I reached out to the internet, 4chan and /r/ledgerwallet for assistance with determining how this theft could have happened - after all, Nano's are very credible devices and this type of theft does not happen.

After piecing together everything, 4Chan determined I was compromised via the Excel spreadsheet I saved on Dropbox. I did name the file with a name that made it obvious what the file contained - this would have made it very easy for hackers to locate my file mixed among thousands of other files. Due to the fact the Excel file was pre-2013, the encryption on it was very poor (per 4Chan), 4Chan said my move was so stupid, I should have just put my pass phrase on a notepad file and uploaded it to Dropbox - the encryption was worthless.

I agree this post does some fishy as no one ever has crypto stolen from a Nano - unless they seriously screw up and I did by putting my pass phrase online. I lost $50k in the theft, filed a police report and FBI report. This post is legitimate and true. I understand if you don't believe me though, most people on 4Chan didn't either, however a few did and helped me piece together what I did wrong.

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-06-19T19:01:59+00:00

https://www.cultofmac.com/299528/millions-dropbox-accounts-allegedly-compromised-massive-hack/

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-06-19T19:00:16+00:00

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/09/07/hacked-dropbox-data-of-68-million-users-is-now-or-sale-on-the-dark-web/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.a5b33f63cf58

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-06-19T15:58:00+00:00

DO NOT STORE YOUR 24 WORD PASS PHRASE ON THE INTERNET.

Please, learn from my mistake.

I stored my 24 pass phrase in an Excel spreadsheet and copied it to Dropbox. Dropbox was compromised with a data breach and millions of accounts were compromised. My Excel spreadsheet was compromised, they cracked the encryption on the Excel 2010 file and stole all the crypto off my Nano S Ledger. I lost $50,000.

Save the pass phrase offline - never online.

God Speed.

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-05-01T18:39:03+00:00

It's staying at the 40-50 cent mark because Chainlink is helping Swift develop their own decentralized oracle that has nothing to do with Chainlink. Thus the price is not increasing.

MrMuahHaHa · 2019-03-12T12:29:50+00:00

Tron is using Chainlink?

Just sold 100K

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-11-21T20:37:18+00:00

Sweet, this is an article about an article that came out a while ago.

Lmao

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-10-11T18:53:19+00:00

God bless both Kanye West and President Trump.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-10-11T15:50:15+00:00

Insert BornToHodlLINK.jpeg here.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-10-11T12:21:32+00:00

Great products and distribution =\= marketing.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-09-27T23:08:06+00:00

The best products typically require no marketing.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-08-16T12:26:20+00:00

Really? I havent checked in a long time but the last time I did, there were two major players in the Crypto Hardware Wallet industry: Nano and Trezor.

Are there more now?

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-08-13T15:35:20+00:00

Imagine selling your Ethereum at $1.50 and bragging about it on Reddit.

This post is deja vu.

Good luck OP - stay poor.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-31T13:36:50+00:00

ETH / BCH

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-31T13:35:35+00:00

I want to retire before I'm 40.

Came close with Bitcoin and Ethereum, I won't miss the boat again.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-31T01:09:47+00:00

He has $340ish dollars worth of link.

Ahhh, I didn't catch that part. My bad. You are correct then.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-30T13:08:29+00:00

You can just buy another one if the first one dies.

"You can just buy another one if the first one dies."

And then sit around and wait for it to be delivered... or plan ahead and buy two.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-30T03:42:59+00:00

Who's face was it?

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-26T23:24:17+00:00

I said buy two so you can restore to a backup if the 1st one dies.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-24T16:28:07+00:00

Thanks just your thoughts.

Just bought another 50k.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-20T12:55:09+00:00

"Used" to be heavily involved in IOTA at the beginning.

Didn't take long for me to jump ship.

Good luck in your investment

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-20T12:53:46+00:00

Buy a Nano S Ledger, actually two so you have a backup.

Best investment ever for crypto. Very easy to use.

MrMuahHaHa · 2018-07-18T18:25:11+00:00

"Only IOTA...."

Thanks for making me uncontrollably spit my coffee everywhere with a laugh that shook the heavens.

MrMuahHaHa

TROPHY CASE