> You should STOP SENDING bitcoin deposits to your Bitstamp account IMMEDIATELY as private keys of your deposit address may be lost. I read this as wallet file

> You should STOP SENDING bitcoin deposits to your Bitstamp account IMMEDIATELY as private keys of your deposit address may be lost. I read this as wallet file(s) having been corrupted. The way to avoid this is to use deterministic[1] wallets However... > We have reason to believe that one of Bitstamp’s operational wallets was compromised on January 4th, 2015. makes it sound like one would be wise to short sell btc immediately. [1] https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawiki https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0032.mediawi...