I just wanted to order some stuff from Alpha, logged in and had to log in again after 3 minutes (never happened before, as far as i can remember). I immediately logged in again and had a balance of 0.000 btc, thought it was a bug, clicked on it and saw a withdraw, sending all my money to an unknown adress.
I never initiated that withdraw. I never shared my login credentials. I never used a link which could be phishing (at least thats what i think). I don't have a clue how this could have happend.
I don't know if it was my fault or if it was alphas or if neither did something wrong. But it seems unlikely that it was mine as their was money in that account for a long time and i didn't change anything in my routine. I have done business over the darknet for a long time and something like this has never happened to me.
I won't get that money back. But you could learn something from this. Never trust anything on the internet, especially if it's related to illegal things. I thought i was safe, that this would never happen to me. I am intelligent, i don't get phished, i am safe. But it happened and i feel awful.
Does anyone have an explanation how this could have happened? I would love to hear an explanation because as of yet i am just baffled and can't make sense of the situation.
EDIT : Just an idea for the folks over at AB, which could have prevented this for me. I saw the withdraw before it was finalized. If you/they could integrate a feature to abort pending withdraws i think this could have been prevented.
Alphabay is like a kid that steals cookies from the jar on top of the fridge, and everyone sees him do it, but he pretends that nothing is really happening while munching away on our chocolate coins.