If your not sure who Ian Balina is, hes a popular social influencer who reviews ICO's and has generated an enormous amount of wealth doing so, in excess of 2 million dollars! if you want to check out his channel you can below.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT5IB8qqnIolnkuUj8a1kEQ
How was he Hacked?
Update : UPDATE on Ian Ballina Hack
This is how I think I got hacked. My college email was listed as a recovery email to my Gmail. I remember getting an email about it being compromised, and tried to follow up with my college security to get it resolved, but wasn't able to get it handled in fast manner and gave up on it thinking it was just an old email.
I kept text versions of my private keys stored in my Evernote, as encrypted text files with passwords. I think they hacked my email using my college email, and then hacked my Evernote.
Take away!
Ian should of known better in my opinion who the hell stores their private keys in the cloud? I feel bad for him, but he is active on twitter posting his portfolio updates nearly every day! That just pants a big red target on your back for scammers!
Please protect yourself's! Either buy a hardware wallet! like ledger nano s! Or if your waiting for one to arrive or dont have the funds to buy one! Store you crypto in offline Paper Wallets! Public and Privite keys can be generated offline! This is reffered to as cold storage! Ill link some info below if your not sure how this works!
https://myetherwallet.github.io/knowledge-base/offline/running-myetherwallet-locally.html
Thanks for reading!
Disclaimer : All investing is speculative. This isn't financial advice. Just one man's opinion of a complex fractal world with infinite variables, affecting the system, at exactly the same time.
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