As I was promoting steemit someone asked about July 2016 steemit hack when apparently about 260 accounts were compromised and about $85,000 worth of Steem stolen.
If any of you know how this story ended please let me know, so I can tell him, as he is worried about it.
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From the link above:
"... What is being done:
Some hours later Steemit have released another statement which says that they have been able to coordinate elected witnesses to secure compromised accounts which have balances of more than US$ 100. Ned Scott the CEO further states that:
“Within the next 48 hours, Steemit will begin to allow all newly secured accounts to reset their passwords simply by logging in with the same Facebook or Reddit credentials that were used to register in the first place. This easy process will work for the vast majority of the potentially compromised accounts. All of these account holders will regain full access to their funds and their original account name.”
So the funds were available again for the users, with full access to their account.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/steemit-website-hacked-ceo-promises-to-reset-accounts-in-48-hours
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Is there a follow up article that sums up how everything ended? Not what "will" happen, but what did happen. Confirmation that everything was indeed recovered.
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260 accounts sounds like faurd more than hacking.
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