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I lost 3000 Iota using the Iota light wallet 2.5.7 #1158

Open adenluis opened 6 years ago

adenluis commented 6 years ago

On the 18/02/2018 I tried to send my Iota to the Binance exchange from my light wallet that I had recently upgraded from Github to the 2.5.7 version.

The Binance Iota address was: BYTFJXWIEM9QYPOYWLDLDJJPTREQGOKSKGOETPMQVWCUEWXJNAAQBGAOT9LIQCLOTDXHZF9QFK9UATSXDBYVSYLDS9

I tried to “promote/re-attach” but still nothing was happening, I waited 3 days with 0/1confirmations on Binanace. Than I went back to my light wallet and notice I still had my 3.0+Gi there. I assumed the transaction must have bounced back to my light wallet.

On the 21/02/2018 I sent my Iota “again” from my light wallet to my second Binance account to see if that would work.

This is my second Binance Iota address: CG9PCOJNRIDODHJ9YBBONBPUMMGOUKSAGAPMYRAZ9DBHGFMQDBLHGKTYK9HWGGWKQTDPG9NMCUFKYMGMDQGVYSJZGW

This time I thought I would try my best to push this transaction through, I tried to reach out to people in the community running full nodes to see if they could help, I tried to “promote/re-attach” straight away.

Than I came across this site: http://www.reattach.online/

It asked me to paste either my Hash/Address in to “promote/re-attach”.

Everyone 1 minute it would try to re-attach to the tangle.

Before I knew it I had over 69 transactions recorded in my Iota wallet, but the out going address was different.

Instead of my Iota going to my second Binance address, it went to this address.

T9AWPYLQRY9QPNCKVNHOEOOYZVMHOWMWWFDZBGPGNTJSVUFPRSSRNKKELXULFRHTRMDUMUYDJVCPMPOLZUFJEVLFSW

In the end I reached out to the developer of this site http://www.reattach.online/ where he concluded this.

Your case is the following:

  1. You sent iotas from a synced node.
  2. You entered in an unsynced node and sent iota again. Unsynced node didn't know about your past transaction, then the wallet didn't advice you about the problem, and let you make another transaction.

I still don’t understand how a simple mistake like this is not protected by the wallet/network if this is the case. Can anyone help me understand this better? And have I definitely lost my Iota trying to make a transaction from the light wallet to Bianance?

Any help would be super appreciated !

CaliBitcoins commented 6 years ago

Hi there.... I see a lot of people are missing IOTA. I am one of them. Has IOTA done anything to help you resolve or reclaim lost funds from incomplete transactions/hacks?

adenluis commented 6 years ago

Hey, I have not managed to find anyone who can help, I have tried multiple platforms to try reach out and nobody can even explain how I lost the 3,000 iota doing a simple transaction.

So I have just accepted the fact that I am not getting it back. Really sucks :(

If you find anyone that could help please let me know

adenluis commented 6 years ago

Thanks for looking into it, really appreciate it. How would I contact the dev team?

I'm not sure what you mean by Android wallet, I had the latest wallet version downloaded to my Mac if thats what you mean?

adenluis commented 6 years ago

Yeah I have never seen that message before.

I have been trying to get my iota out of my light wallet for over 2 months before I lost it. The first time I sent my iota to Binance the transaction sat there unconfirmed for over 3 weeks, then I think Binance rejected the transaction because it did not say '0/1 confirmations' under 'deposits' anymore it was just gone, and the funds where back in my wallet. Then I tried again about a month later and that's what happen with the above story I wrote on this page.

Can't say I would be recommending iota to anyone if the safest place for it is the exchange.

adenluis commented 6 years ago

Thanks for helping out anyway wonkytonky, still a little confused with how I lost it all using the iota wallet but I really appreciate you trying to help!

jpenner123 commented 6 years ago

My goodness...I have been using IOTA wallet for quite some time and never had any issues. Yes, sometimes transactions get stuck... but the loss of 3000 IOTA is really bad... sorry to hear that dude...

adenluis commented 6 years ago

Yeah I was pretty devastated, I feel like iota has a long way to go before it will ever be used in real world cases. Over 3 months I had my iota stuck in that wallet, and when it finally came out it went into someone else's wallet.

Not an ideal form of currency.

CaliBitcoins commented 6 years ago

Sorry to hear that @adenluis and thank you for your assistance @wonkytonky ... I am setting up a website to track these fraudulent transactions after losing my funds too. Hopefully in time we can recover these damages. Good luck!

adenluis commented 6 years ago

That's a great idea @CaliBitcoins. If there is anyway I can still recover the iota I lost I would be most appreciative! Also if there is anyway I can help please don't hesitate to ask.

changsuh commented 6 years ago

I got iota coin 332.167 from binance, I sent to my iota wallet on Dec.21.2017. I was checking iota 332.167 in the wallet,Just I was keeping over 3 month, When I was checking around 10 days ago, I couldn't see any coin in iota my wallet, Please adivice !!

novagalaktika commented 6 years ago

Кошелек Iota Light 2.5.7 Баланс равен 0 -----

nux1103 commented 6 years ago

Hi ! Iota Light 2.5.7 - My balance equals 0. I just lost 100.8990 MIOTA from Binance too. I saw the transfer in progress on the light wallet and everything disappeared ... Still no solution ?

UPDATE - OK, I changed the Nod Configuration and I just found them all.

changsuh commented 6 years ago

Hi, nux 1103 I got same problem,Can you give me information, How did get iota again,