# Stolen tokens from Delegation?

**URL:** <https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88>\
**Category:** Stake Delegating\
**Created:** [May 18, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88 "2020-05-18T23:46:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Nathanbtc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8c91f0/32.png) [@Nathanbtc](https://forums.casperlabs.io/u/Nathanbtc)\
**Post date:** [May 18, 2020, 11:46pm UTC](https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88/1 "2020-05-18T23:46:09Z")

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Do you have a backup plan if the staked tokens from delegators get stolen, or slashed?

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**Author:** ![medha](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex029/user_avatar/forums.casperlabs.io/medha/32/4_2.png) [@medha](https://forums.casperlabs.io/u/medha)\
**Post date:** [May 19, 2020, 12:12am UTC](https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88/2 "2020-05-19T00:12:14Z")

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It’s important that token holders hang on to their private keys! Not your keys, not your tokens. Staking delegation will involve sending a special kind of transaction that adds your tokens to a selected validator’s bond amount. But the validator never gets your private keys, so it’s possible to unbond your token as well. It is not possible for the validator to steal your token, because they never have access to your private keys. We are still designing our slashing protocol, so it’s hard to state how this will work. It could be that the slashed percentage is evenly distributed across all the tokens, including the delegated stake.

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**Author:** ![joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@joe](https://forums.casperlabs.io/u/joe)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88/3 "2025-02-03T18:17:46Z")

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**Author:** ![joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@joe](https://forums.casperlabs.io/u/joe)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88/4 "2025-02-03T18:17:54Z")

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**Author:** ![joe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b9e5f3/32.png) [@joe](https://forums.casperlabs.io/u/joe)\
**Post date:** [February 3, 2025, 6:18pm UTC](https://forums.casperlabs.io/t/stolen-tokens-from-delegation/88/5 "2025-02-03T18:18:04Z")

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