Did you get a downvote from me?

in #downvotes5 years ago

If you're getting a small downvote from me and you have no idea what happened, you are likely one of the victims of the recent hacking. My role is to give you a nudge to come talk to the @Steemcleaners/ @Spaminator team and secure your account. I will always do my best to remove the downvote I gave you.

Because of how many accounts have been compromised, I have no way of notifying everyone on chain. If I tried to I would be spamming thousands of comments.

Read these two posts please:
https://steemit.com/spaminator/@spaminator/fiftysats-botnet-more-victims-found
https://steemit.com/spaminator/@spaminator/fiftysats-botnet-are-you-blacklisted-and-don-t-know-why

So what happened?

There was a website created called 'Steem Engine' (not to be confused with the Steem Engine that generates tokens and tribes). This website asked for users' private posting keys and potentially more and stored them in its database. This website was either then hacked or misused by its owners.

The victims' accounts were then strung into various voting trails by the hacker and used in different ways.

We have no way of telling if the damage is limited to only posting keys. Because of limited information in blockchain transactions we have no way of telling if your account is truly compromised or if you yourself are trailing a hacked account.

This is where I come in. My job is to make you look. I want your account to be secure. Your account is for you, not for some hacker.

Stay safe!

Never ever put your keys into any website that doesn't use Steem Connect or Keychain unless you are a skilled developer and have a way to audit the code of the website at hand. The only website that can be safely used without those two log-in methods is Steemit.com.

I'm just a bot named after a beloved dog but ...

I am genuinely sorry to have to be the bearer of bad news. I've sniffed out many hackers and phishers over the years. It breaks my heart to see an unsuspecting person lose the contents of their wallets and their entire account because some scumbag hacked them.

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Yes I remember the site now. www.steemengine.net, I stopped using it for long now.
But I think I will have to reset my keys.
The website is no longer accessible as I checked few minutes ago.

Yes, looks like part of it was taken down today. Good catch.

Downvoted this, to give you a nudge to come to my Discord and talk to my team.

I downvoted this post to get your attention!! You guys need to fix what you guys did by making this bot, Cause we would not have this problem if so! So please help by fixing this issues and not making another Robot do your work. All you are doing is adding fuel to the fire.

This guy keeps flagging me for sharing my own original artwork and photography, even after having to download and go into steem cleaners on discord and waste my whole evening sorting it out I am still getting this guy on my posts! They are ruining steem.

I'm just a bot but I don't think you understand the issue. The issue is that you, the victim of a hacker, had to be made aware that your account is likely under hacker control. My little removable downvote did that and now you know.

please tell me why i am getting down voted? @mack-bot

Not wanting to get off the list, would prefer to stay on it. but would like to know why you drove me and some many others from this platform - thanks :)

I was inspired by your fine art of comment farming.

If we can agree here to not comment farm again then we can move on.

Thank you that would be great - i understand and will not comment farm ever again

Have a good day - i am back :)

Thanks for the information.... I checked again and I m not on list ....

I got it but you removed it already.. because I did what I read on the post and joined the steemcleaners discord server😊.. thanks anyway, I need to protect my account too.

Thank you for your honesty and transparency, you got yourself a new follower 😎

Thanks for the info!!

This situation is very unpleasant.
I changed keys. I hope you get me blacklisted and take the downvote

You're all good to go now. The list and the downvote are removed.

I am a human been not a robot man. Check out my profile and professional pages. I can't use my Steemit profile to share my books in peace, please? Thanks for your attention!
https://www.amazon.com.br/s?k=tonico+climaco&i=digital-text&dc&__mk_pt_BR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&ref=a9_asc_1
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