This isn't the original Electrum. You fell for a fake version of it.

Unfortunately, there is nothing you can do. Your coins are gone and your computer is compromised. Reinstall your OS and create a new wallet from the ORIGINAL Electrum.

This is the ONLY legit Github link: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum

sir but i swear, i do really received an notification on my old electrum original that it needs to be updated.. then i do follow the link given from there.. oh no ... sir does electrum company can help me with this>?  do they own this https://github.com/electrum-project or not?

i just woked up very happy this evening after isleep a few hour only, i dont know this was going to happen. cant stop crying now , it takes me 15 days for those funds to be earned. i cant believe this. i downloaded that wallet from https://electrum.org/ , anyways i need to accept this. by the way i am Jack Henry from texas, im 68 years old. Thankyou for the answers. have a nice day to all 

Just to be clear this just happened to me as well. I just made an account to comment here actually.

I have the same version of electrum i always use, nothing changed today. Went to go send coin and received a pop up error message  WITHIN THE REAL ELECTRUM that i cannot sent the payment until i upgrade due to security issues. I am usually diligent about this stuff but it was a long day and i was in a hurry. Github even has the links verified on that phishing one so i just downloaded. Sent the payment again in the new one and the money was gone 10 minutes later.

It's my fault for using that one without doing more verification...but something happened where someone was able to send an alert/pop up through the real electrum. I don't understand how that happened.

Yea i am not sure but also cannot download electrum from the site right now either.

My original electrum that i got the pop up on has been on here since 3.2.3 was released. i haven't updated or downloaded any new ones before tonight so i don't understand where the popup came from as it was original software

Yep, although i am usually good about catching things like this i foolishly fell for it this time. And i downloaded and opened the 3.4.1 file. Looked just like electrum and so i sent payment and my wallet got drained.

now i am just worried if there was something else attached to the file but i don't think so as of now because it opened just like regular electrum did with one single file in the drive/folder(on mac). i think it was just an exploited client that routed all payments sent to them. like i said before i may end up wiping my drive just in case

It's not fixed yet,:


So latest version of Electrum is still 3.3.2 https://electrum.org/#download and this attack is still possible, only change is how it is display to users now. I must admit that this is something that what was never supposed to happen, cheap trick for for naive users. Download Electrum only from official site, and even then check and verify files.



Do not download any update for Electrum, even if you get warning from legit Electrum wallet, it is expolit that hacker use to get your seed/private keys!

https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/a9yji3/electrum_wallet_hacked_200_btc_stolen_so_far/

It's getting on for a 250 BTC haul now.

When it comes to updates I usually wait a few weeks just to be sure. I'd never use a computer-based wallet all the same.

The Bitcoin codebase is still so young right now and comparable to the early internet. Devs will learn from these mistakes and carry on. I hope no more people loose money to this exploit.