That is why it is said that the cryptocurrency market is extremely risky. here you have to make a good choice as well as adopt the best ways to preserve it. It's great if someone can buy such a large number of bitcoins, but it's even better if they keep it safely. You have been careless in securing your bitcoins. First of all, you should not have kept all your bitcoins in one wallet rather it should have been divided. Apart from this, there are also very good hard wallets in the market right now where you can store your bitcoins. Online wallets always have more chances of hackers to attack.

I have a hard wallet, but I still don't keep all my assets in one wallet, instead I'm trying to buy another one, so that if one wallet is accidentally hacked, So there is no fear of all my assets being stolen. Similarly I don't keep my assets on any one exchange, but I keep my trading assets in different exchanges. However, we all realize and newbies must realize that hackers are always active in this market, and our small mistake can lead to a big loss for us.

You, everyone else and I can only guess what is true and what is fiction in this thread, and until there is solid proof that the OP is telling the truth, no one is wrong.


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I think we shouldn't make assumptions in this case.  OP still has not shown real proof that he owned 11 bitcoins to begin with, even though he said he would provide evidence.  The only parts of his story that have been confirmed are a couple blockchain transactions, but honestly those could mean anything - for all we know, he just found some random transactions on the blockchain and claimed they were hacks.

You can't sign a message without the private key, if it was that easy, a certain satoshiwannabe would have done it already instead of forging.
And signing a message is impossible without a working PC, when someone gets hacked, they won't simply back up their hard drive, instead they'd take out any private key and wipe the drive clean.

But these kinds of imaginary hacks happen from time to time, there was even a person claiming that someone took 100 k BTC without having a private key by only having a signature. These are very similar to certain satoshiwannabe wet dreams, they even have a scam coin where they can block and reverse any transactions at will.😉, to be honest it's a perfect cash cow, get hacked, reverse, rinse and repeat, and what we have a lot of, are idiots to buy such scams. So kind of a wet dream.

Once I had $600 stolen from Jaxx, and at that time the whole Internet knew that this wallet was being hacked  easy, but I did not have this knowledge. It was a shame and now I wish you inner strength and peace of mind as you have lost quite a bit. Did you have an antivirus installed?
The licensed version of windows?
Maybe the wife installed some kind of program without a license? People who are poorly versed in computers often clog up the computer with bad applications.

OP made a costly mistake by putting such an amount of Bitcoin in such a wallet and you are right that he should have got a good hardware wallet. But he didn't put his coin in a careless wallet, Bitcoin Core 25.0 wallet is a full-node wallet and is considered to be one of the safest wallets. Its ability to download and validate the entire Bitcoin blockchain makes it one of the most difficult wallets to attack. It is also an open-source wallet which means that everyone have access to see, make comment, or propose a change to the code.This fact has made members doubt the story and want him to sign a message.

But splitting his coins into different wallets would have been ideal if he was using a software wallet. If I were him I would have shared my coin into a different trusted wallet or better still buy a hardware wallet. It is far cheaper than losing such an amount. However, some persons might be scared of ordering a hardware wallet because of the high rate of criminal activities. People are afraid of ordering fake wallets or compromised wallets. Even if they order from the right source, delivery services in some countries cannot be trusted. In a country where cybercrime is high some delivery service staff can change the wallet or compromise the hardware wallet to steal the coin. Using an air-gapped wallet could also be a sound option..

I'm also skeptical about the OP's story. Put yourself in his shoes, if you had 11BTC, would you leave it on a computer with an internet connection and let everyone use it freely? I bet no one here would let that happen even to a newbie, let alone someone who has been involved and has long experience like the OP.

In case someone owns 11BTC, I think they would even store it on 2 to 3 hardware wallets instead of on one computer with an online connection. OP should provide more evidence instead of just providing the wallet address and nothing to prove that he actually owns the wallet.

One final post, then I'm just going to look forward and leave this mess behind.  Some points.

1. I'm an idiot.  I accept that. I hope sharing this experience can help others avoid the same mistakes that I made.

2. I can't figure out the message signing with the segwit address.  Wish that worked with the Bitcoin Core GUI wallet. Tried Electrum, but had no luck.  Not something I need to waste time with at this point.  If there is a mod or a trusted member of the forum willing, I'd be fine with sending some sats to them from my wallet. Send me a private message.  As others have said, that still doesn't prove anything, so whatever.

3. I joined this forum about 10 years ago.  I don't visit very often these days.  Merit points or whatever mean nothing to me.  Give me negative merits, just does not matter.

4. I have reported this theft to my local police as well as filed a cyber incident report with my state and the FBI.  I don't expect anything from that outside of being a statistical data point.

5. I know exactly where this malware came from that got us.  Website, file name, time, etc.

6. I contacted one of those recover your Bitcoin bounty hunters, but it's a scam.  I figured as much, but wanted to hear what they were going to say. The BS they were spouting was kind of funny.
 
7. I still love Bitcoin, my wife and my life. While this really sucks, it's not the end of the world for us.

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Unless OP is an attention seeker and there was no hack
As they say in the bitcoin space, don't trust, verify.

If this story is real it's because OP was completely careless about his coins.
You can be careful, average or careless here and a careful person would have a hardware wallet or a multisig setup. Your average holder would have an offline device with at least one backup and an antivirus software. A careless person would have a desktop wallet with a password in a txt file, would hold the private key in a password manager and allow all his family to use the computer for movies, pirated software and all the other stuff they do.

1. Anyone makes a mistake.

2. check this https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/51480/send-coins-with-electrum-from-encrypted-wallet-created-with-bitcoin-core
If you manage to import it you can sign the message.
or send the sats to me, it is a public address that is easy for everyone to verify.

3. Pray that the FBI catches them if they are from a country with extradition laws.

4. Report it to the antivirus, if you want to contribute.

5. Don't believe in bounty hunters, if it is already difficult to recover your coins when you forget parts of the seed, imagine the probability when you were hacked.

6. don't doubt your wife.

Cheer up!.