I think people close to me might be responsible

A few weeks ago I found that I could not access my main account. No email notification about why, nothing.

It was a shock but I tried not to panic, slowly going over stuff only to notice a certain document missing from one of my google accounts.

To explain, I have a Close Family Member who I adore. She is someone that invested with me years ago. This CFM approached last year and said she was worried that if something happened to me that she would need to be able to access her assets. I showed her the live accounts and how to access them it but she wanted it written down and I caved.

I gave her the info she needed to get access to my computer, my phone and Gmail account and on the Gmail account I included all the information you could use including master keys…

About a third of her crypto and a small amount from the rest of my family were on another account that I don’t think I wrote the master key for but everything else of hers and everything I had was compromised.

These past few weeks were.. tough. Constant invasive thoughts, the worst kind, I felt like I was on autopilot. I couldn’t do anything I tried looking through the accounts more, see if I could find anything. There were more deleted things and I’m sure I’m missing emails I could have sworn I had but I was just kind of numb.

Everything I had was in there. It's not just about the money, I have dreams of a big family aAnd.. I tried to act normal, but people around me knew something was wrong, my mom especially.

I give occasional reports to CFM and she has been asking for one. So I went to her house this last Thursday and broke down. She handled it well enough. She said she had spoken to my parents a few days before and she mentioned to them that she guessed it was bitcoin related.

We went to tell my folks and I’m so thankful for family, you know. Love them to bits.

We talked a lot. She said that she would put me in touch with a Family Friend. It’s someone I’ve met twice before but I’ve heard great things about him. He messaged me and said he wasn’t the most knowledgeable but I know he’s a smart guy and works with software and was told he has crypto himself.

So we had a meeting.

I’m doubting myself now as I write this. I'm sure I explained what I think happened, about a Gmail hack, and loosing the master keys.

I told him how I had contacted support though I’m still waiting for an answer.

But we avoided talking about that and started talking about the structure of my accounts. And some of the details for the account that wasn’t hacked. He mentioned to me that the account could be closed because of a compliance issue.

I don’t know, my head turned off then. I didn’t want to overthink it. Lost seed phrases does not mean that your account might be recoverable. Your seed phrase goes missing and things have happened in your account and the problem is compliance?

Later that afternoon I talked to my CFM again, and she said how good he is and how important it is to trust him. How it’ll be good to get a third party look at it and how I'm lucky he was willing to help.

I just needed some space and I mentioned to my folks that I was going over to a friend’s house. I haven’t known him long but I meet him every few weeks and he also works with software.

She overheard me say this and told me not to say anything to him, how he’s not someone you can trust so I shouldn’t talk to him about this.

I talked anyway. He actually called a friend and put him on speaker. They were extremely level headed and patient and after hearing this they came to their own conclusions and now I’m making this post because I need to know if I’m going crazy.

I spoke to CFM again this morning. She emphasized how much trust she had in FF and how good this would be and that I should listen to him. She said she was going to push me, be on my case. That it’ll be good for us.

Later today I got an email from her about what her and FF talked about and contains the following:

How we need to get the wallet address to know if it was a hack (which I don’t have).

That the timing seems like it could be for non-compliance. Big exchanges are getting regulated.

That the account could be closed because you can’t have more than one.

How I must give him an API key (he mentioned read only in our meeting I think but not here)

This family friend needs to see my emails to check. Explains that this might be a long drawn out process (then why do I feel like I’m being made to hurry?).

And finally there is an option, “which of course you need to consider”, that I give everything to him, all login details and passwords (that I have changed since the hack) related to all accounts that I have and all crypto accounts which would include 2fa so that he can take a quick look into it and it would not take long for him to find out what happened.

I don’t want to believe this. I want to be told that I’m just being paranoid. I know paranoia is closely related to suicidal thoughts or breakdowns but isn’t this just.. what is this. I don’t know what to think or do. I’m afraid and confused.