Losing your ethereum

[Domithra]

A friend just lost 5ETH and some tokens from his wallet. He has never copied his private key before neither has he shared his keystore file. Is it possible to lose your tokens to a hacker without having to get hold of your private key and keystore file?

[sakib.bro]

i dont think so
maybe he share it to someone in certain unconsciousness
it might be happened

[claudio2]

I think it's not possible. Probably he failed to protect his private keys or json file and someone had access to his wallet.

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[ata kei]

As Mew team said don't enter in wrong site, there are a lot of pishing and scam that recembles Mew site.
May he did it,
Just check detailly

[Claus]

For this one I think he mistakenly gave his private key out.  That could be the only cause of it

[Ikkelins]

Under normal circumstances that should not happen but maybe he might have shared his private keys on a platform which he might have forgotten or better still stored it on someone's computer which has been hacked. There are several reasons so i suggest he sits back and remember where he might have laid of his guards. This will help prevent further scamming or better still create a new e wallet for new transactions.

[Raboni]

It shouldn't be, the private key is the only key to open the wallet unless he tried to enter it in other device or in phishing site that looks like the same. Anyway, loses is lose it will never back. Better to move on and learn from what the possible mistakes why it happened.

[sawon123]

you can mail them then say details

[Pheonyx]

A friend just lost 5ETH and some tokens from his wallet. He has never copied his private key before neither has he shared his keystore file. Is it possible to lose your tokens to a hacker without having to get hold of your private key and keystore file?

I don't think so but hackers have many ways to steal anything they want, and there are some phishing sites that they made so maybe this is the reason.

[Paulomits]

He might have used a phising site or a malicious program was installed on his PC that copied his login details and sent it to the hacker.
Sorry for the loss

[Marshal]

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[dominoes]

Maybe there was unnecessary things that your friend unaware of. I'm not too sure about the secure privacy on how your friend handle that. I think hackers could not access the secure wallet unless there was laziness that happened.

[ambrose92]

Losing etherum will be one of the worst experience for everyone in the crypto world.Ethereum is much cherished and if you lose it in an adventure of maybe stolen by hackers can be very painful.

[Jaguar]

Basically in real world if one person or the team loose there was a problem that something bother to everyone. Maybe there was a problem with the wallet or storage or maybe your friend forgotten something that so much important. Better to remember everything by detailed.