So, I frequent a few trading platforms. I kept seeing advertisements about some kind of chrome extension. Selective ad marketing I guess. Anyway, I installed the BTC ticker into my browser. Everything was up and running, I used it a couple of times, didn’t think anything of it. No red alarms etc. Here’s where it gets fun, the ticker actually came with some malware it somehow picked up! I was going to go withdraw some coins from my trading account, everything was going smooth.
It was only after I got #$%^&*#$ out of 3 bitcoins that I realized that the add-on changed my deposit address to its own.
At least they didn’t cost 4,000$ back then…