My Account was Hacked! Or Was it really?

in the-hack •  8 years ago 

Hi, this morning I was first happy to see Steemit back on. Then the horror.

I can't login, It seems my password has been changed and it tells me "incorrect password"

But then I remembered I followed the advice to have different passwords for your owner key and posting key.

And loging in with the posting key worked! Ah Relief!

Thanks to the steemit team for getting things rolling again.

#the-hack #hack #steemit

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Glad to hear it worked out for you!

Can you log into your owner account to change your password?

the real question here is can you?

No I can't. I can only post.

For me everything works did you put different passwords for your posting key and owner key?

Yes

then make sure you use your owner key if you want to do something else than vote or post. you might also want to check out the account recovery tool

You'll still want access to your owner key, otherwise you won't be able to access your funds.

Yep I got that too and changed it after the hack