How to Secure Your Steemit Account From Hacking
Have you ever seen comment like that in your post?
Free Upvote plus you get 0.1 steem just to sign up !
Looks like pretty good offer! You will get free upvote and steem. When you click the link, it will redirect you to somewhere that looks like this.
When you see we have to sign in with steem connect, you might think it is safe to do that.
Wait! Just check out the url!
This is a phishing site that is trying to hack your steemit account.
You may see comment where it says you copy paste your content, you will get massive downvote for that. To protect your account from flagging, read the guideline clicking the link.
The moment you click the link, you see you are not logged in steemit any more.
Ok, it's not a big deal. Then you might sign in steemit again. Your account just hacked!
Honestly speaking, once I clicked the link and signed in steemit. As soon as I realized that something was wrong, it was wrong indeed.
Fortunately, nothing happened in my account. That time I signed in with my posting key. The best hackers could do is that spamming comment or post with my account, I think.
I changed my password immediately. And everything is fine.
So what can you do to secure your steemit account?
I think we should follow something strictly.
- Don't click the link you are not sure about it. Hackers try to do anything just to click the link.
- After clicking link, if it asks you to sign in again in spite of being logged in before, that's a sign that something is wrong. Check out the url that you're redirected to.
- Always use posting key to sign in steemit.
- Keep your master key or owner key somewhere safe.
- The last but not least, never ever use your master key or owner key to sign in. Use it only to change your password.
Do you have any other suggestion to secure our steemit account?
Please let us know about it in the comment bellow.
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Thanks for sharing 😊 Good that you could change your password fast enough!
You're welcome!
If hackers get your master key/owner key somehow, they have complete control of your account. So, it is better to ensure the security of your master key/owner key. You can store it offline so that no one can get it.
Thanks for the tip :)
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Keep up the good work and original content, everyone appreciates it!
Thank you so much for spreading the message by featuring this post. I really appreciate that.
Spammers and abusers are everywhere. We should be on guard all the time.
I have collected posts about phishing that i post at the bottom iof some of my posts. Is it okay to add this to my future posts? You can check my latest post to see what i mean. It is important to make others aware of this.
Yes, you're right. It is our responsibility to secure our account.
You are doing a great job spreading awareness about hacking and phishing attacks. Sure, you can post it at the bottom of your posts.
These are very useful tips, hackers are very smart and because the technology has evolved, every day they find different ways to steal our acounts, so we have to take care about the link we clicked. Cheers
There are some bad people everywhere. And that's the reality. Hackers use different new techniques to steal our accounts. If we spread awareness and let other people know about their techniques, we can be safe.
No one can hurt us if we are united and help each other. Together we are stronger and we can face anything.
Very well said:)
very important post thanks for sharing
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