Been robbed
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i was robbed too; you have my sympathy. I made the mistake of relying on microsoft anti spyware/virus and leaving my thumbdrive at home. I now use Avira it also offers 500mb free vpn a month which I shall use to access my wallet and zonealarm firewall .... all freebies :) i also installed a ramdrive to handle temporary system files for when i decrypt my passphrase archive thus it cannot be retreived from deleted files. My windows filesystem is now in the hands of almighty bitlocker.
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@Lexicon I am really sorry for this man! I can i imagine how bad you have to be feeling now. It just sucks all this.
As I said on another thread regarding the Surfbar, hardware wallets are the only way to go on the long run, as we are humans and sometimes we make mistakes and even worst we are expose to attacks, now it was the surfbar but in the future could be whatever and hackers (a rat in this case) seem to drink a lot of coffee and don't sleep too much...
I propose that maybe in the mean time the most secure way (as I see it) is to create a new wallet locally and have the passphrase never on your computer, have it on a paper or encrypted on a flash drive we never plug in. Do all the asset buying and so on with other more active wallet and transfer assets and funds from time to time to the one we never use. I do not see a way someone can get hold of your passphrase. I am sure there could be better ways as maybe use linux, etc.
And one last thought, do not use your user name to give the name to the wallet, this makes your address a more desire target.
Best
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i understand the seriousness of the keylogger found inside surfbar , but IMO the 1 thing that screams suspect to me is the wallet address that has not been used from 2014 ???????? seriously it's highly unlikely that the person that address belongs to is #1 still involved with burst in any form and #2 has installed and used the surfbar recently wile at the same time logging into a wallet they have not used to do a transaction with in over 2 years. IMO it's more likely that the owner of said wallet is the culprit and desided to pop in and collect what they could.
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@Gibsalot I was actually coming back to this thread to check on that date! While driving I thought, wait... 2014??? Nah, I must be trippin.
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@k.coins i had to go dubble check myself to see if it was typo
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it could be. i never got chance to put his address into the surfbar to see if he had any payouts or anything.
so far ive got about 396,476 burst back from donations. people giving me assets and the like.
100k was given for completing a jobi cant thank these people enough and it brings a tear to my eye to see how nice the community is.
its heart warming after a heart breaking incident.
also to whoever sent me the 20k burst today. thanks man! your a *!
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@Lexicon I've been following what's going on, I'm really sorry about what happened to your account!!! Let me help you out by letting you barrow my Burst Mining power for One Week of 23TB. Please send me your Burst Account address, and I will be sending whatever I make from my Mining Power, Starting Feb 20, 2017- Feb 27, 2017. I know I don't have to do this, but you said it! We are like a family here in Burst Community and we help each other out!!!
I'm Sure if this would of happened to me, I'm sure I will be getting the same helping hands you got too?!
Please follow my Burst Mining Power at http://pool.burst-team.us/
Name of the Miner is: Ces Burst Wallet
Thanks,
CesBurst1782
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@CesBurst1782 i think i just fell off my chair!
my new burst address is in my signature.
the old one i still have access to mainly because it still has loads of people subscribed to send me funds every week but whoever drained my account still has its passphrase.
im speechless!
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@Lexicon Your Welcome, Starting This Coming Monday I will be saving all my earnings from my 23TB miner I have and will be sending it to your address. I know, it's not much but it's still something.
"I Hope I Hit lots of blocks with my Miner starting Feb 20!!!" :-)
Just one thing I asked from you is not to lose hope on what happened to you, but to push forward and still being part of this great community we have like Burst!!!
kEEMP'eM BuR$tTING! eNJOY YOUR daY! :-)
Thanks,
CesBurst1782
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@CesBurst1782 thanks man it means a lot.
i put in a lot of work into this community over the past 5 months and when this happened i felt it was all for nothing.
obviously i was wrong. i didn't account for the community. and thats helped me through some tough times (the few times someone came onto the forums to attack me for my pool code i released).
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I'm sorry for you man! Don't give up!
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Um, what is the surfbar you all spoke of? I'm not much of a PC guy these days
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@Lexicon I have sent you my Burst earnings for the past few days. Sorry for your loss and I hope it helps.
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Also, I keep getting small deposits of Burst in my wallet and Polo acct. what gives?
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@Rorepme that's the other forums doing a type of "gurellia marketing" campaign (and generally just abusing the network txs limit but they'll run out of funds eventually)
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I don't see how sending burst to anyone and providing transaction fees to miners is abusing the system, just my opinion.
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@rds It's like paying your court fine of $10K in pennies - it abuses the system and ties up resources. He causing exchanges to be unable to payout, users unable to do reward assignments, users unable to conduct regular transactions - it's vandalism
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@haitch I disagree !!
I know you have trouble with Adam, but receiving free burst and even giving 3 burst per transaction sent helps everyone, those that receive rain, the pools, and even find problems with the servers with the many transactions.
Paying court ? People are receiving FREE burst FFS!!
I don't see why people call this advertising, everyone know nation already , and you are not required to read the messages lol
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@Zeus
Crow and co know that flooding the wallets hurts the blockchain and pools due to issues yet not resolved. And yet they abuse the issue they know about.
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@Zeus said in Been robbed:
@haitch I disagree !!
I know you have trouble with Adam, but receiving free burst and even giving 3 burst per transaction sent helps everyone, those that receive rain, the pools, and even find problems with the servers with the many transactions.
Paying court ? People are receiving FREE burst FFS!!
Millions sent!! Millions!!
Stressing the system uncovers weakness hopefully resulting in a more robust Burst network. I don't believe there is anything malicious about what the rain people are doing.




