Hot account?

What client are you using?  Or are you using a hosted (shared) E-Wallet (e.g., Paytunia, Mt. Gox,, etc.), or perhaps a hybrid E-Wallet (Blockchain.info/wallet) ?

Understated given I never keep more than .5 BTC in a hot account.  Pissed, yes.  Extremely. But could've been a whole lot worse.  I have the address both locally on a bitcoin client and on blockchain.info.  Can't rule out either it was a hack on my system, but i keep everything pretty tied down.

I posted same thing couple topics down.

Second time in two weeks.  One coin each time. Changed pw on every account and activated logging.

No log of withdraw.

Now getting freaked little.

This kind of post  is why you are hero member SgtSpike

Anyone handing out private keys should realise they have been robbed, even if they haven't lost coins yet.

Ok, we'll run with this.

So your address is 1HHwDwxpeq4ZxRDE3TDNVfhT6jyj6Cx6nE.  What Bitcoin wallet software are you using?

My phone was hacked the other day (posted in off-topic.)  I didn't investigate it in detail...just wiped the phone and moved on.  I would have a lot of trouble trusting the phone for anything at this point.  Certainly not a bitcoin client or access to any on-line wallet with more than a few dollars worth of value.  I now don't use it for e-mail on my main e-mail account.  Just set up a secondary e-mail for very limited data and use which is a drag (vs. being able to check my mail e-mail from my phone.)  I guess I'll do the same with on-line wallets which should be easy enough.  I have a Windows machine but would prefer to not access any wallet with more than a few BTC from it as well so this will kill several birds with one stone.

Yeah - phones are worthless for security.  I keep less than $25 on mine - in Bridgewalker - just for showing people how it works and giving them a couple of bitcents to get started playing.

If I'm going to be away from home and in need of bitcoin I take my linux netbook with an encypted bitcoin-qt hot wallet loaded with what I think I'll need.  I consider that adequate for moderate amounts.  I enter passwords with an on-screen keyboard.

Oh -- is this that BTC-e (hope I'm remembering this right -- sorry if I didn't) chatroom javascript hack we saw a week or two ago, anyone? IIRC, it used a keylogger, too.

I know someone personally who lost 4 BTC in one of these blockchain.info wallet heists, where the transaction taking his funds was a multi-txin transaction that combined the funds of many others.

My guess is the OP is not complaining of losing 500+ BTC, he just lost whatever BTC he had, which was part of a single theft from multiple people, the theft totaling 500+ BTC.

re: casascius -- you are correct, I didn't lose 500+ coins.  I only lost 0.78, still stings given I haven't been at this for long and don't have a ton, but you were right to think that through versus jumping to conclusion like SgtSpike did.  Signed a message for him proving him wrong and never heard back.

re: Piuk --  I'm PM'd the other user to see if we were sharing any apps.  Would be difficult to go through everything or what we've downloaded to ensure no keyloggers, but...

    Do you have a bitcoin app on your android phone?  Yes - BitcoinSpinner
    Do you have a blockchain.info wallet holding the address in question?  Yes.
    If you have a blockchain wallet do you use a public alias the same as your bitcointalk, bitcoin-otc or irc username?  No. Separate name and separate password.
    Do you have accounts on one of the following sites: BTC-e, bitcoin-central or mining.bitcoin.cz? Account on BTC-e
    Do you reuse the same wallet password on different websites (specifically the above sites)?  Different passwords
    Do you read the BTC-e chat box?  Can't say I "read" it but messages are flashing up all the time while I'm on the site.
    Does your browser have Java enabled? http://isjavaenabled.com  -- Tough call on this one.  I've been running noscript for a week or so on Firefox on a fresh install, so should be protected there, but have had that address for a while and know I was on btc-e prior to installing noscript, so all depends when person would gotten my privkey.