Someone Withdrew Steems to Steemit with Private Keys as Memos
Yes, recently, apart from seeing steemit starts to PD, we also notice there are two transfers to steemit with memos likely the private keys.
May I suggest the owners of these keys immediately change their password, to avoid your accounts being compromised.
Someone may just do a bruteforce algorithm - trying combinations of account with these two private keys, it may take time, but may be quicker than your think if the keys are still valid.
There are currently 1.4M account. Let's say, we try 1 account/keys combination per second, and it will take around 16 days to crack one.
The good thing is that these two transfers are from the Exchanges, so the owner/initiator's identities are not revealed. It will be less lucky if you accidentally put your keys as memos, which may be detected by bots and then your funds will be stolen immediately.
Every little helps! I hope this helps!
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that's bad news but also means the steem is likely lost until a support ticket is logged.
Yes, you are right.
Helpful for securing accounts!
Thanks!
What do you think about @Steemit account powering down?
PS: Looking around... the community it is a bit concern!
It is said the funds will cover the operation costs.
Hard to believe that... just the first power down is around 1.6 Millions USD!
PS: Do you really think this is the case... funds to cover the operation costs?
I don't really know... but I wouldn't worry too much.
@justyy, thanks a lot for sharing your opinion regarding my concern.
I do have one more question (and i promise i will stop with the questions for a while, as i know you are very busy)...
As you probably notice on SteemEngine, SteemConnect got deprecated, and now we are advice to use Steem Keychain. Since this is an extension that needs to be install in the browser and it's been developed by a witness who is not with us anymore... do you think is safe to install Steem Keychain and start using it on SteemEngine?
Wish you a great week-end!
You can check their source code on github, and download the source code from github, install it as a local version (development mode), this should give you some confidence of using it.
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