Yesterday night, I had my bitcoin stolen. I had about ~.32 btc taken from my Exodus wallet. I'm unsure how it was taken. The transaction showed up on my Exodus wallet when I signed in, so I'm unsure if my recovery key or my private key was taken. It was about 95% of my crypto "portfolio".
I had recently (03/19) been hacked, and nearly subject to a ransomware attack via my vnc server. Luckily, I stopped it before I lost anything. I'm unsure if they managed to get my wallet that way, or something, and just waited until now to take the funds. Or maybe someone's gained remote access to my PC now, although I wouldn't be able to tell. I had about 1 ltc in there as well, and that wasn't taken, so I'm unsure what to take from that.
I thought I'd been very careful in general. I generated the wallet, and kept the recovery key on paper, and backed up the private key onto a usb. I 2FA everything online. I actually looked into 2FA for Exodus a while back, and saw they were thinking of implementing it, but never did. I wish I'd moved it somewhere else that did, but the convenience trumped the safety!
Unfortunately, that was a lot of my savings, and I was checking on it to withdraw it to help with a deposit on a flat soon, but it'll have to wait quite a bit longer.
There isn't much of a point to this post, besides venting my frustration. Try not to sacrifice safety for convenience, I guess?
I wish I had an offline wallet with 2FA. I wish I had made new wallets, and reformatted my computer when I got hacked.
I know some people have lost much more, but this is by far the worst financial thing that's ever happened to me, and fuck, it hurts.
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