It is their fault alone. One needs to verify every url that they are on when submitting personal data, especially financial related. Websites and organizations can only do so much. Eventually common sense needs to kick in.

I think this is giving too much credit. A lot of people are just careless and a simple phishing attack or some social engineering makes them give up their info, and bang, money gone. I'm willing to wager that a lot of people's "lost" money wasn't stolen by traditional hack attacks, but by them in some way willingly giving out their login details, like phishing or social engineering. In this case, as much as it sounds harsh, but it's their fault alone.

This isssue is still relevant folks, especially after bitfinex hack!

These type of hacks make it even more relevant.. People are confronted with creating their own wallets again and that can result in the reports you have been gathering.

The biggest hurdle here is that the majority of people doesn't want to go through all the extra steps required to secure their coins. The tech savvy guys will do it ofcourse, but John Doe doesn't want to. I think the only way would be to integrate automated back-ups, but those are much less secure by default.

It has come to my attention, that people are starting to lose their passwords/wallets/access to bitcoin more and more often. They are either idiots or careless or just naive, but this really needs to stop.

Just today I see at least 5 reports of people losing their wallets, frequently in the wallet subforum but also on reddit. Of course economically speaking this is good for the rest of us, because the money velocity slows down making our coins more valuable, but it also makes newbie integration very unfriendly.

Really if we want bitcoin to be global, we need to make newbies more comfortable with bitcoin. Many people are irresponsible, so we need to warn them of the consequences, because they never read the fine print.

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My suggestion:

1) Everyone more experienced with BTC should write tutorials for newbies and give them out for free for newbies, that will teach them how to start out in bitcoin, and what risks they need to consider. Highlighting important topics like backing up wallets, and passwords, and also keeping their systems safe from malware.

2) Every wallet software should integrate a warning window warning users to backup their wallets and passwords before creating the wallet. The warning should be in big red letters , so that newbies can see it, and this might make them realize that it is important for example:


3) A pinned thread on the Beginners & Help section warning users to backup their wallets & passwords

4) Bitcoin.org and wallet websites should also tell newbies to backup their stuff.

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Consequences:

If we don't make bitcoiners more responsible, then they will demand the existance of "bitcoin banks" that will store their bitcoins for them "safely".

If the newbies cannot be responsible, then they will hand over the control over their coins to middleman, centralized wallets, and we will accomplish nothing.

Bitcoin banks will be born,and the same fractional reserve shit will start over again. So it is in our interest to make people responsible, to keep bitcoin decentralized.

When you create a wallet you receive an email to your email adress. In that mail there is a connect link to your wallet. People are so stupid that they lose even they email adress

But then you lose control over it, becasue if you change your email and phone in the meantime (or somebody hacks it) you can also lose access to it.
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Right, but i mean to have a specific e-mail adress and phone that you are sure that you will never lose. Anyway if you have a little amount of btc in your wallet it doesnt matter this.