PIDGIN ENGLISH: PAINFUL STORY || HIVE NAIJA

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I almost lost it today, having the feeling that my Hive account was hacked and my life's work being at the mercy of how quick I could change my password before the hacker does something incriminating with the account.

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By 3:30m this morning, I decided to take a rest after a long reading from the past 4 hours. I took my phone then set it to ring after 30mins for my little nap. Then I placed my head down the table, closed my eyes for the next 30mins.

By 4pm, I woke up back to keep reading then I saw my discord notification of incoming vote to a post published on my account. I was like 👀👀👀

HOW COME?

FROM WHERE?

I was seriously shocked to actually seeing a post published from my account which was not made by myself.

So many things ran to my mind like; If this post is a plagiarized content, I am ruined. How did someone get hold of my password. I checked out the posts, and I saw this below:

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Why would someone publish a post from my account without touching my wallet? Does this person have access to my wallet? Should I change password now or send off the coins to my other account hivepack@hivepack?

During all these deliberations, I got a discord notifications from the 3speak channel from eddiespino@eddiespino that gave me a calm mind.

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I am glad to have seen the message that moment because I was already driving myself nuts on what decision to make. I was PANICKING!!!

The huge relieve I felt reading that message was satisfying. I didn't know what I would have done if truly one might have gotten my keys. But I know that, it would surely to send off all the liquid tokens away from the account first.

I noticed my post had made about $20 from my autovotes and saw it would not be nice editing a $20 payout post to error.

SO I DECIDED TO BE CREATIVE

Instead of writing error, why don't I talk about how I felt when the incident happened. It is worth sharing than just editing the post with error.

In fact, it would not look good as the kind of person I am in the blockchain.

So be honest with yourself, if you were me, what would you have done?

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