Need Help: $650 worth Crypto stolen from my Coinbase account

Inconite · Apr 17, 2019

Hi All,

I was off from internet marketing since 5 months so I didn't care about changing my Coinbase password every month like I used to do before.
However my CB account was 2 step secured for login and as well as out going transactions but someone stole all of my coins this Sunday without my knowledge.
I wrote to CB support but I didn't get any response yet. Coinbase security sucks!!

Has anybody faced this situation?
Is there anything I can do to get my Coins back?

Advice to all CB users: Secure your Cryptocurrencies in the best possible way or you may lose everything. There are begging hackers out there

. They left me with nothing but 81 cents

Elias543 · Apr 17, 2019

Omg... thank for share.

biffer123 · Apr 17, 2019

Damn. And you had 2FA on?

That's not great. Do you know how they managed to get through?

BetterKnow · Apr 17, 2019

If they were able to brute force through 2FA that'll be a big problem for CB

LandP · Apr 17, 2019

Better Know said:
If they were able to brute force through 2FA that'll be a big problem for CB

You can't brute force 2FA (it's time limited). It could be just a phishing page attack.

RighTsS · Apr 17, 2019

There is no chance to get it back. Thank you for sharing. Hoping for fast recovery of your wallet.

BetterKnow · Apr 17, 2019

LandP said:
You can't brute force 2FA (it's time limited). It could be just a phishing page attack.

It's possible in theory, but thinking about it I don't think CB are incompetent enough to let something like this happen.

Probably phishing as you mentioned.

Reminded me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurr..._account_hacked_using_2fa_brute_force_11_700/

NNemessiSS · Apr 17, 2019

how they pass the email configuration? it must be a person that used your internet to see that or a friend of yours , someone ho had access to your pc

Inconite · Apr 17, 2019

biffer123 said:
Damn. And you had 2FA on?

That's not great. Do you know how they managed to get through?

Better Know said:
If they were able to brute force through 2FA that'll be a big problem for CB

LandP said:
You can't brute force 2FA (it's time limited). It could be just a phishing page attack.

YES, I had 2FA on for both login and outgoing transactions.
Every time I logged in to my CB account from new PC I used get "give access" permission mail to my email account, followed by 6 digit code from Authy app(Secured by iPhone).
Maybe hacker had access to my mail id(Gmail, even this was 2-step secured by SMS code through Phone).

2FA is not reliable at all.
I have another hacking incident which got through google 2 FA app.
Last October, $132 was stolen from my Skrill, it was secured by PIN + 2FA.

Coming my phone:
I use iPhone 6s which is highly secure and it was with me when hackers stole my money. So the problem is with weak 2FA security.

Better be careful guys.

NNemessiSS said:
how they pass the email configuration? it must be a person that used your internet to see that or a friend of yours , someone ho had access to your pc

My PC was off bro when Coins were stolen.

NNemessiSS · Apr 17, 2019

Inconite said:
My PC was off bro when Coins were stolen.

yes but your passwords of email and coinbase how they stolen?

Inconite · Apr 17, 2019

Better Know said:
It's possible in theory, but thinking about it I don't think CB are incompetent enough to let something like this happen.

Probably phishing as you mentioned.

Reminded me of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurr..._account_hacked_using_2fa_brute_force_11_700/

It can't be phishing because I didn't login to my CB account since 15 days pre hacking incident.

LandP · Apr 17, 2019

Inconite said:
It can't be phishing because I didn't login to my CB account since 15 days pre hacking incident.

Go to local government authorities - police.

kontentdruid · Apr 17, 2019

this is really scary - i thought 2fa was impenetrable!

anyone have advice on additional precautions to take

MEng · Apr 17, 2019

oh god! i thought 2fa is much secure. i guess i have to be more careful now.

thanks for sharing this incident. i hope that you will earn the lost amount quickly.

shakher · Apr 17, 2019

I under stand what you r going thru mate but i hv been thru a similar and much bigger shock whn Mt Gox robbed me of all my BTC whn suddenly they shut down on Feb 7th 2014. Only if i had kept them in a personal wallet n not in my trading account i wouldnt hv lost on a fortune. Those days it was trading at 1200$ compared to when i had purchased them at 400$ some months back. But one fraudulent hack as proclaimed by these theives and many ppl lost so much of their hard earned bucks!.So pal its alwyz better to keep them safe in your own personal wallet rather than these exchanges. You never know one day you wake up n see u r not able to log in and its hacked!!

Alexpaberla · Apr 17, 2019

LandP said:
You can't brute force 2FA (it's time limited). It could be just a phishing page attack.

Yes you can know what code will be the next, all 2FA have a unique algorithm if you can find that you can know the next code for 2FA

Golden Phoenix · Apr 17, 2019

And here I thought hackers only interested in whale-sized accounts. Fuck 'em.

br4sco · Apr 17, 2019

Id wager you got some malware and compromised your OS. Someone must have either root access to your machine or it was a man in the Middle attack. Being hacked twice there seems to be a pattern here.

Did you contact Coinbase about this beach? Its pointless discussing 2FA when you can ask CB for login logs and Transaction ledgers.

DE_GAME · Apr 17, 2019

Sorry man this not the first time I'm hearing about coinbase security flop .

Check out this post below, felt so much pity for this guy, he lost $8k crypto to coinbase insecurities.

https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-t...es-with-verizon-and-coinbase-com-ba75fb8d0bac

Rowdy Devil · Apr 17, 2019

I have 2FA enabled looks like I will have to find some other ways as well..thanks for sharing nd sorry u loose ur money.

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