So about 6 days ago I tried to go login to Steemit and my password didn't work. I tried my private key and everything, but quickly realized I was locked out. Frantically I submitted a password recovery request and then went to my account page and looked at my wallet.
At first glance it appeared that someone was trying to withdraw all my SBD and Steem and I was pissed! Then upon closer inspection I noticed that whoever was moving my money to various bid bots, was actually boosting my own posts!
I have no idea why someone would do this, but I think I'm the only person ever who got blessed with a benevolent hacker. I want to give a huge shoutout to the Steemit team for helping me quickly recover access to my account so I can keep on posting!
APPARENTLY, the hacker was oblivious to the fact that we have account recovery, thought he had complete control and decided to inflate everything until he could rape the power-downs... That's my guess!
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@underground I'm still confused by what happened, but yea seems like he was boosting away to grow the account so that he could power down with more $ in it.
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Big thank you again to the steemit team for helping me recover my account!
@ned @the-alien @michael1
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Is it possible you will get your account back? @woodrow
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I got it back @majidawan ! the awesome people at Steemit were great!
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I had to go and check your wallet was tempted to do so 🙈
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All good @rudee, so weird right! They started the power down, then stopped it.
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What a story! You'll be glad you SBD and Steem were boosted...
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Cool to hear this, Facebook's "team" doesn't do anything for anyone lol
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Glad you got back into your account and your SBD was still there.
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Yea me too, couldn't believe that all of it hadn't been transferred out!
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Congratulations! This post has been upvoted from the communal account, @minnowsupport, by woodrow from the Minnow Support Project. It's a witness project run by aggroed, ausbitbank, teamsteem, theprophet0, someguy123, neoxian, followbtcnews/crimsonclad, and netuoso. The goal is to help Steemit grow by supporting Minnows and creating a social network. Please find us in the Peace, Abundance, and Liberty Network (PALnet) Discord Channel. It's a completely public and open space to all members of the Steemit community who voluntarily choose to be there.
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Sorry for being hacked but its like the person did you a favour
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the hacker seemed to have provided you with christmas and new year present ..happy new year 2018..happy steeming journey :)
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i thing it's effective....
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Wow, incredible history, you are lucky :)
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That reminds me of when I was hacked on reddit and found that one of their posts hit #1 on the front page.
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@samuel-swinton did you end up getting your account back on reddit?
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Great story glad you got your account back and everything was great in the end!
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Thanks @road2wisdom me too! Where are you located? You should join our Steemit meetup
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What exactly that you did to get access back to your account?
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Hey @chesatochi I used the password recovery option on steemit and the team was able to grant me access again, very appreciative!
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