My STEEMIT Account Was Hacked But Now Recovered!
Greetings
I am Muhammad Ahmad from Pakistan
Welcome to my post, my dear friends. How's everything going? I hope that you all will be fine and enjoying your lives. I am also fine and good. Alhumdullilah
Yesterday I was preparing my Post for the SLC contest about video editing, while preparing it I suddenly opened my wallet to see if the reward of my recent post came, but when I opened my Wallet then I was very shocked because someone starts Power Down of all the Steem Power, at first I didnt believe but then I quicly cancel the Power Down. After cancelling the Power Down, I then saw that my Steem is being sent to some other user; however, I don't know who that user is, but I can confirm that the one who sent Steem from my account to the other account is the one who HACKED my Steemit account.
I was very afraid because there is almost 2k Steem Power in my account, and I don't want to lose it. Then, after cancelling the Power Down then I quickly told this to my Mentor @hamzayousafzai, then he quickly told me that someone got access to my account, and then he on the spot changed all the keys of my Account and then he sent me the new keys. I am very glad and Thankful to my mentor Hamza Yousafzai, who helped me a lot during this hard occasion, because if he hadn't helped m,e then there could be a chance of losing all the Steem in my Account.
Told @hamzayousafzai About This
But the problem doesn't end here, because after some time, we saw that the account of my brother was also HACKED and the Hacker also started powering down my brother's account too. The username of my Brother's account is @abdullah79. Then I told Hamza Yousafzai again, and then he asked me for some things, and when he tried to recover that account, it was impossible to recover that account. Moreover, Hamza Yousafzai has done his best and applied for the Recovery of my brother's account. And the account of my brother hasn't recovered till now, and the Power Down is goin ong, kindly help with it so that we can cancel the Power Down.
After some time, my mentor Hamza Yousafzai called me and asked about some unsuspecting activities, like he asked that is there are any unsuspecting activities with your Google Account or somewhere. Then I thought and told them that yes, actually few days ago, my Google ID was hacked, then I was trying to recover it, but at the instance the hacker also hacked my Personal Instagram and Discord ID too. I was very sad, and then after a lot of effort, I successfully recovered my Google Account. Then I changed the Passwords for it, and after that, I also recovered my Instagram and Discord IDs. After recovering, the Hacker sent some suspicious screenshots to a lot of contacts on my Discord. After this, I was feeling good and happy because all of the accounts were successfully recovered.
But the Yesterday incident makes me very sad, and then I understand how Hacker got access to my and my brother's accounts. The keys to my and my brother's accounts were saved in my Chats with my brother in Discord. From there, he can access both accounts. But now my account is recovered, and I need help in recovering the account of my brother.
So, as far as I think, the one who is behind this is @olgiz247 because someone sent Steem from my account to this one account. So I think that the person behind this is @olgiz247. When I checked his account, I came to know that he is not posting on that account, but this confirms that he is the one, because when I check his Wallet History, he received a lot of Steem, including Steem from my account too. In the last 9 days, he received Steem from about 80 accounts. This is very terrifying and also a serious case, so kindly take strict action on that because I don't know how he gets access to a lot of accounts.
Cc: @steemcurator01, @chriddi, @the-gorilla, @steemchiller, @adeljose. Kindly have a look on it as soon as possible.
So the „hacker“ got your keys via Discord. Well, well, remember the very first rule, Steemit tells you when giving the keys to you?!
I cannot help you too much.
Your brother‘s recovery account has to initiate a recovery. In his case it’s @justyy. He needs to contact him. Maybe it’s possible via the website where he sells these accounts…
„Steemit“ has nothing to do with this case, since they did not create the account. @ justyy created it.
Good luck!
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Someone has gained access to your keys. I wouldn't call that hacked. You probably shared them somewhere.
You should also change the new keys again, because someone else besides you knows them.
Perhaps everyone who is affected should tell us who they gave their keys to. Then it might be possible to find out who is behind it.
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You must deauthorize any app you've given permission to auto-vote. Don't share relevant information on Discord.
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Hi adeljose, where can we check these permissions?
On SteemWorld, you just need to enter your post key.
https://steemworld.org/authorized-apps?login=artist1111
Thanks friend 💖
Dear brother @adeljose, Thanks for your worthy pieces of advise but I would like to say that I haven't authorized any app.Oblighed
You authorized steem-seven and steem.dapps.
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Brother, I didn't know about that, or I forgot. Can you tell me how I can deauthorize it? Moreover, I think that both are trusted, but I will remove authorization from it. Kindly tell me the method.
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Yes, this is not your main problem, because it isn't possible to transfer tokens with posting auths.
You can deauth it here: https://steemworld.org/authorized-apps
Ohkk and Thank you so much for the help me brother.
The Steemit team should take action against this; otherwise, Steemit will no longer be a safe platform. The Steemit team should introduce a new layer of security, such as an authentication app, OTP, or another strong security measure. This is the first attack, but this person has already hacked about 90 accounts. You can see the evidence in his wallet he transferred the STEEM from the victim accounts to his own account.
In addition, the Steemit team should help @abdullah79 recover his account. He still has the old master key and is ready for any kind of verification. He simply wants his account back.
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Sir, I strongly agree with you. Yes, the Steemit Team is suggested to take prompt security measures.
yes if the steemit team is not taking this issue seriously then in future nobody will trust on steemit no boday will power up
Steemit can do nothing here. The chain is secure. Nobody can transfer tokens without keys.
Everyone has to take care of their keys
Thats terible how he got access to all these accounts in a day . He transfered all that to (coinexofficial) account @steemcurator01
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Yes, it's quite strange.I am really in a shock.