Hi gang,
Sorry, old thread but;
I'm BURST-EYZ9-2NHP-VN4T-72RU4 who was one of the accounts robbed.
I just noticed recently that it was emptied of BURST and an asset taken in February. I googled the thief's BURST address of BURST-9HTR-WSSF-XY9H-7HUNW and found this thread.
I figured I could fill in some info at least from another person who got hacked if it helps anyone in the future.
His take off of me was only 37'683 Burst but he also got my 1,687 shares of ByteEnt asset which honestly was my best performing asset since I bought into it in its opening days way back when. It was worth roughly 60,000 Burst when he liquidated it but it was generating about 200 Burst a month for me which was a nice little stream working over the span of two plus years. He didn't mess with old or nonperforming assets I had so this makes me believe he is knowledgeable of BURST wallets and workings. So in all I lost about 100,000 BURST.
I believe this was either brute force or from a pool long ago when i mined with this account. I had a fairly simple password as this was the first BURST account I opened and used exclusively when I discovered BURST and solo mined. I mined on at least five different pools after solo mining for a few months. I realized eventually that BURST was going to be larger and that I needed an account with a complex password so I transferred most all my BURST to my new holding account. What I didn't do or know at the time is that I could transfer my assets over also.
Moral of the story, If you don't have an account with a complex password please make a new account with one and transfer your BURST AND ASSETS over now. I was able to save the majority of "my bag" even though I got hacked in my nostalgic original BURST account with lots of mined blocks back in the day. You can rest easier!
Keep up the great work community, Love where BURST was and IS going.......