@Chelsea88 Has Been Hacked! 😨
I'm not 100% sure what happened and how Chelsea's accounts (Gmail and Steemit) got hacked but she contacted me through my YouTube channel through another Gmail account to inform me of the situation. Here are some of the messages.
As you can see in the messages @simplylizelle communicated with Chelsea through video chat and she even showed the piece of paper saying she got hacked. So that basically proves that it isn't an imposter messaging me and all that.
https://steemit.com/hacked/@simplylizelle/chelsea88-hacked
I have been watching @Chelsea88 's account and the liquid STEEM and SBDs haven't moved so that is a good sign that someone isn't in there trying to move funds.
It isn't entirely clear yet what happened to her phone to where she needs to get another one and how the hacker compromised the Google Account with 2FA enabled. Hopefully we can get everything figured out and @Chelsea88 can regain access to her accounts.
One thing I would recommend to everyone is to print out paper copies of your original master password and keep those in safe places encase of computer failure or if your computer gets compromised. You can then use that to recover your account if it gets compromised.
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I'm investigating more then 10 accounts that has been hacked.
this includes the few I mentioned before.
Will come back to upvote later. :-)
How are the hacks occurring? Any ideas?
a number of them probably went into some fake site. one of which was the one I posted about before. then these hacked accounts generated more spam comments to lead more people to the fake sites. there are at least 2 I saw. one is steewit and another is steemil . both are dot com.
Oh NO! That could be really bad. I just wonder how Chelsea's Gmail account got compromised. It's all very strange.
I think hers is different case. My gmail has some kind of 2FA when I log on to different network.
I don't get it yet, how she can got hacked with 2FA. I'll keep in touch.
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I've heard that someone talk about Steewit before from Thai guy. he has posted about the site. @ace108
@sek3 got got.
Huh? got got?
Got gotten by the identity thieves.
It was happened to me also, I has posted my private key and i got hacked. it can happen like this all the time.
Yeah it is a really tough situation to get through. Chelsea is saying she got her Gmail hacked and then her master password must have been in there.
Happens often, It would be nice to keep funds in an offline wallet and just have some way to verify your steem power with and empty balance account. https://steemit.com/steemit/@alexwonderful/beware-hacker
That would be nice. Kind of like how the Masternodes work. Where the keys aren't on the server but they just verify that you have the coins in a wallet on your computer.
Thanks , man. Yeah, I have mine written down by hand in various places in my house. Sorry this happened to this person.
It is a very rough situation. I always freak out about losing access to my crypto.
You are a great friend ,, maybe a lot of fans with your various popularity. how are you friends, are you okay right?
This is not good....
At least her SBD are still intact...
How can we know a site that's fake so we can stay away from it...
Bookmark the sites you know are real and only access those sites via your bookmarks. Naturally the first time you are visiting a site you need to be careful and do some research.