Steemit Account HACKED!

As usual I opened my browser, automatically logged into Steemit and went to the wallet page. I saw the following message from @keyhunter.

My account password has “leaked”! How can that be? I guess it was a polite way of saying my account was hacked. I didn’t believe it because I was able to login and view the message. Was this a hoax message?

Then I opened my email and I received an email message from Streemian.com. I use their services for curation purposes.

The message I was received was not a hoax and it seem that my login password was somehow compromised. I quickly started the “Recover Account” process in the password page.

Once done all I could do was to wait for a response from Steemit Inc. I got the response a day later.

I recovered my account instead of just changing the password because I was not sure what may happen and it was also to let Steemit Inc. know that my account was “hacked”.

When I received the email from Steemit Inc. I proceeded to recover my account using the link provided which was the process of changing my password. Once this was done then all was good. Nothing was taken from my wallet as I do not have that much anyway so why was I targeted?

Then I saw a message from @craig-grant posted on @yuliana informing that he had been “hacked”, see the message here. So I am not the only one and it would appear that something maybe going down.

@craig-grant could not gain access to his account unlike me. This highlight a possible flaw in the way "hacked' accounts are recovered. To recover your account you need to access your account, but if the account has been locked then you are stuck on the outside.

Some sort of procedure should be in place to enable a the account holder to gain access to the account in order to recover the account from the outside.

I would suggest a system like Streemian.com, in which Steemit Inc. inform the account holder of a possible hack and provide email link by email to recover the account instead of having to recover the account in the password page when we cannot even access the account.

What additional precaution can I take to ensure this does not happen again? Comments as you see fit below.

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I’m just letting off Steem, if you found this post informative then UPVOTE (with FULL POWER), COMMENT, FOLLOW and especially RESTEEM.

Live Long and Prosper

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I wrote this article myself and it expresses my own opinions. Computer literacy is crucial in this day and age. Just because someone tells you it is good does not mean that it is good for you.