My Account Was Hacked! - Please Be Careful And Avoid The Same!
Dear Steemit community members, my account has been hacked in past 24 hours! The hacker was posting from it, left and right, spamming comments with phishing links, with an apparent attempt to hack any of you as well who might fall into that trap.
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Over 200 accounts have been affected by that comment massacre. Last 18 hours (night and day) I've spent by deleting them and by trying to warn those members from whose accounts (for some to me unknown reason) I wasn't able to remove those hacked comments.
If you come across any of them that have been posted in past 24 hours,
PLEASE DON'T CLICK on any of the links in them, and especially don't try to login to that phishing site by any of your Steemit keys!!!
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I didn't notice what was going on for several hours, but when I finally did I took all the actions I find necessary to bring the full control of my account back!
However, I would like to make a special apology to those members on whose blogs I wasn't able to delete those hacking comments (@scandinavianlife, @williamwest, @tasauver, @camilus, @czechglobalhosts, @avesa, @buggedout, @pyaesonekhinkhin, @taphophilia, @splendorhub, @aweber, @rockingluis98, @imranafridi, @antomil and @juanmiguelsalas).
As well, my additional apology to every and anyone of you who I maybe missed while going through whole this hacked data.
Also, and for those of you who are used to my regular curation activity, as my Voting Power has been entirely drained down, I have to inform you I wouldn't be able to upvote your posts in the following few days until my VP at least a bit regenerates back.
My special gratitude and a big thank you to all of you who recognized and realized what's going on with my account, knowing it can't be me, as well as for your support on the way out!
For all the rest who would find about my case through this article, but as being affected, my apology once again, and hoping for your understanding I'm thanking you in advance!
TAKE CARE & STAY SAFE!
Posted on Saturday, March 3, 2018
Thanks for putting this to everyones attention! We all need to be aware that these kind of things will happen way more in the future.
Dont apoligize for it..could happen to the best! Take care and I hope nothing else was stolen from you
This is a sobering lesson on how vulnerable our accounts are online.
I think having multiple backups, logging out when your not online, and allowing password recovery via steemit can help keep our accounts safe.
Unfortunately nothing is safe but we can only make our accounts less vulnerable.
A suggestion would be to use @ginabot to get notifications on your discord app about activities happening in your account. This will help you easily identify activities that you are not actually performing.
Great advice! Didn't cross my mind! - Many thanks!
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My account was hacked, they posted spam / phishing links. I'm trying to fix my account now :(
When you repeat the same comment on multiple post you sound like a bot! If it walks like a bot, squawks like a bot, it may be flagged for being a bot!
Sorry
all these are phising links
SORRY I WAS HACKED
detail oriented with nice information. thank you for sharing
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Sorry to hear that, it sounds bad. We need to be careful.
I've seen a few posts about hacking. Maybe we need some clear do's and don'ts
Thank you for understanding!
I just made a comment-reply almost on the same question to @lifeaef, so not to retype the whole thing all over again, I hope you would be so kind to take a look at it.
Thank you. Yes, I read it. I think the main thing is to avoid logging into the phishing sites, in the first place. I know I get plenty of emails from banks, PayPal, Amazon, etc. I always look at the URL before proceeding.
thank u for information .. this information guide steemit community
This is terrible, so sorry. You can count on my support in any mater.
Stay cool- we all love you!
Thank you very much, Oleg!!!
It was really a shock to me, but I am OK now, and just want to leave the whole thing behind.
And waiting for my Voting Power to regenerate itself... 😉