My Metamask wallet got hacked, 3.4 BCH went to the hacker

Today will be one of the worse days of my life, I haven't been able to eat anything since I discovered my wallet was hacked and my 3.4 BCH moved away into a wallet address I don't own, and I don't know how the owner got access and permission to move the coins from my wallet.I have heard people talk about their wallets being hacked and have always been wondering how possible those mother fucker hackers can gain access to a person's wallet, now I have experienced it. I feel so devasted as I type this article, all my savings got lost again. This time not to a bad investment or a rug pull but to a wallet hacker.

I can't figure out how the hacker got access to my wallet. I don't hunt for airdrops nor do any of those things that ask people to connect their wallets to make a claim of whatsoever they are offering. I knew the danger of those kinds of sites and always avoid them no matter how tempting they may be.

The only thing I have done with the wallet recently is minting NFT and connecting to a Dex to swap some tokens on the Dogechain. Is it possible for a hacker to gain access to a wallet from a public address? That's the only way I have exposed my wallet address to someone other than myself. No one else has access to my wallet private key apart from myself, and I have never exposed or sent my seed phrases to anyone any time.

I tried all I could to track the transaction by scanning my wallet address on the Sonar.cash site and I saw the fund sitting in the hacker's wallet, which is a confirmation of the transaction. The fund is gone, there is no way I can recover it. I try to check my wallet for any permission that may have given the hacker access but there is no such permission anywhere.

It's so disheartening to lose my fund in this bear market where a fund of 1 BCH is hard to come by. I blame myself for not maintaining my wallet properly. I used to be very careful with my wallet address from anyone I didn't know. I don't know that it's possible for hackers to compromise wallet addresses and gain access to a person's fund. I used the address to receive an NFT giveaway I won on the Dogechain and that's where I think something must have gone wrong because the project was rugged the same day I received the giveaway.

Now, my smartBCH portfolio is browned up again, I have to start over again. What a painful way to lose money. I have installed a new wallet and had the remaining tokens moved to the new wallet. Had my phone scanned for any malware and it found nothing . I am so sad and feel so broken that this can happen to me again.

I hope everyone reading this will not put any wallets in circulation. Keep your wallet addresses secure and private and never give your wallet details to people you don't trust. This is a lesson for all of us. It's a big step up for me to hold my breath to protect my wallet, and then my money is gone.

Have you ever lost your BCH to a wallet hacker? How did you handle it? Did you have a way of getting your money back?

Please if you have anything that can help me in this situation I would be forever thankful. Thank you for reading.