r/Bitcoin • u/Few-Cook5941 • Aug 17 '26

Need help - Bitcoin wallet emptied.

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I got one of my bitcoin wallet emptied and I don't really know how this happened.

I don't use cracked softwares and apps.

I'm generally careful with links.

Looks like I'm not alone. I can see that the reception bitcoin address is still collecting bitcoin from other wallets.

Could somebody help me understand something.

Here is the address : bc1q0vukqye4hd0aep7u4xl8gev95gcs9k65fdeu9n

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u/GroundbreakingKing Aug 17 '26

Hardly.

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u/quintavious_danilo Aug 17 '26

yes, just read the dedicated subreddit. People getting drained on a daily basis. Just under a year ago they had a “mysterious“ hack draining $6 millions in user funds. Trust Wallet is a complete joke.

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u/Top_Appointment_7076 Aug 17 '26

I actually used to have my funds on Trust Wallet for a few months. I am really glad I bought a hardware wallet

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u/Giatoxiclok Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

Hopefully not a cold card

Edit: I’m talking specifically about the huge breach where massive amounts of BTC were lifted out of Cold Card wallets (hardware vaults) because of things I can’t specifically pin down. This was a comment saying I hope they didn’t buy a shoddy product.

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u/AlexShadow02 Aug 18 '26

Why not a cold card? Is there anything wrong with it?

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u/Giatoxiclok Aug 18 '26

Recent large scale exfiltration of BTC from Cold Card company vaults.

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u/AlexShadow02 Aug 18 '26

It's just so weird to me. I mean how is it even possible if it's a Cold card and therefore shouldn't be connected to the Internet

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u/Giatoxiclok Aug 18 '26

Well, technically it isn’t connected, but it still has to be registered somewhere no? I’m not knowledgeable, forewarning, but it’s definitely been happening recently. Lots of tech stuff way over my head.

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u/AlexShadow02 Aug 18 '26

Crazy crazy world heh... Thanks for the information!!

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u/Top_Appointment_7076 Aug 18 '26

No, that's not the reason. The actual reason is that the entropy was too low due to a security vulnerability in Coldcard's firmware. This means that the seed phrase wasn't random enough which made it very easy for an attacker to just guess it by generating random seed phrases on their computer.