Topic: Account hacked: CryptoCanary. Please help! (Read 2197 times)

this is massive ...

thought id come in and post ...

ill message him also - and hopefully will be able to get mine back also ...

#crysx

Core confirmes, rating removed, welcome back.

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shorena, you are no party pooper. Your diligence is appreciated. Todays date is the 13th of January, 2017.
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Thanks for the speedy response, shorena! The party rages on!

I got your PM, but Id like you to sign a message with the staked address ( 181y3hDPEc5FBRVtFiALM5qmp29m8kUxjG ) first.

Sorry to be the party pooper.

I mean, very happy! 

Quoting. Because it is very true! And I am very happy to have my personal account back! 

Persistence has paid!!! And of course being polite and professional to BCT staff. 

Im very glad to hear that, congratulations It took a while but you finally got it back

It is true. I have regained the CryptoCanary account, my only 'personal' account, thanks to BitcoinTalk staff's help!

Very happy this evening because of that. I can't thank you all enough for the help.

Sincerely,

Steven Saxton, the real CryptoCanary. 

HI EVERYONE!!!!

This is Steven Saxton, the rightful owner of the CryptoCanary account!!!

I am super excited to announce, I finally have my account back! Wooo Hooo!!!!

Thanks to everyone that helped!! Especially BitcoinTalk staff!!

             Happy New Year, indeed!!!!             

Happy New Year.... stolen account 

I wonder how Alaki and some others were able to get their accounts back at break neck speed?

Thanks for the info and wish of luck, DarkStar_!

PM Cyrus, the new admin. He's been doing the most recent account recoveries, and has recovered some accounts pretty quickly, and others which were from a while back (like your case).

Good luck getting your account back!

Thanks, TriggerX. A moderator instructed me to make this thread and told me it was the best course. I PM'd Theymos once or twice but, that was over 6 months ago. Perhaps another after 6 months would not be received as spamming. Of course, I am trying to be understanding of the staff's workload and having patience. But, that said, quite mouths might not get fed. :/

Really sorry to hear that happen to you. That happened to one of my old Member accounts but sadly I got no response and just moved forward. Just keep sending Theymos a PM (but don't spam him) and eventually he'll read it. I hope you get your account back!

Unfortunatly, yes the issue has yet to be resolved. Fortunately, no another account was compromised.

Thanks for the paint!

Is this still an ongoing issue?  Can add my Red Paint ^TM if need be.

Was your SXC Forum account hacked as well?

Thank you kindly!

He was kicked off the campaign when I banned him before not to mention he hasn't even logged in since April 9th but I permabanned him for now. An admin can unban it when it gets restored to you.

Don't worry it got -8 already which will removed after you get the access to it.also 30 days is a lot of time for the account to be recovered

Those posts were from before I reported the account stolen via this OP. Fortunately, staff did place a temporary 30 day lock on the account back then. Something I am very grateful for them doing. Unfortunately, that time has passed and I believe the 'hacker' could use the account again. Or at least to my knowledge he/she could.

seems someone deleted my post for no reason phew...why mods do this. can see only your reply in this whole topic maybe they don't want to help you .

No, unfortunately not, hence me bumping it and begging for the attention.  

I know the staff must be busy, that I can certainly understand but, it has been months now. I wonder if the 'hacker' is still profiting off my personal account with his signature campaign. Which is salt in the wound for me.

The negative feedback the account has gotten, which I am thankful for being placed, makes me cringe every time I see the old posts. I fear people will not look to see the negative trust is there for the reason of the account being stolen and reflect poorly on me personally. The account still has my name in the 'skype' field and 'other contact' field. I have worked very hard to maintain a professional and honest reputation. I hate seeing that being jeopardized by something now out of my control.

I would gladly compensate for the staff member's time to help me recover the account.

bump. May I please get BCT staff's attention with this matter?

Oh that is such a relief! Thank you kindly!!!

Banned him for 30 days for unsubstantial posts so at least he can't do anything in the meantime.

Sadly it can be a slow process. Making a thread and signing in right thing.   But again it can be slow you can look at other threads to see this, admins are busy and this seems more common place anymore.

Best thing you can do in mean time is get DT members to leave temp feedback saying it's been hacked.  This warns others about it and shows up bright red by their name.  I think this is best option in time you wait.    DT members do read meta a good amount... so I expect this is likely outcome.

Posting to verify, it is all true.

Steven Saxton

Posting to verify, it is all true.

Steven Saxton

Posting to verify, it is all true.

Steven Saxton

Hello BCT users, moderators, and more specifically, admins.

My name is Steven Saxton and I am composing this post as instructed by hilariousandco, a global moderator. I do have an account, my personal BCT account CryptoCanary, that has been hacked. While losing access to my account, for which I maintained with dignity for a long time, is bad enough in itself. I use this account to represent my own self in all of my projects. Projects being: Donationcoin, Sterlingcoin, EverGreenCoin, and BERNcash. Of course, I also use this account to assist community members of other projects. I also use this account to represent the USA franchise of NewsBTC for which I own and operate. I state this because the account is not only linked to my good name but, also my personal and professional ambitions in this newly formed industry. I do hope BCT staff can address this situation swiftly because I take very much pride in my achievements and my identity. That identity is now being compromised by the malicious person now by not only changing the signature on the account but sending Private Messages to people using the account and making posts.

On March 16th, 2016, I did send a message to theymos using a user, BernieCoin, from one of my other projects, BERNcash. As instructed by a post made by theymos, I included a signed message and followed his given template for the signature and cited the unedited post I had previously made staking a Bitcoin address for the CryptoCanary user.  Here is an excerpt of that post with some unimportant personal details removed but including the important signature:

 

Again, to this message I did not receive a response. No help seemed to be coming. I also noticed when I received this response message from my identity hijacker the account was now being used for a signature campaign something I never did. My signature always was used as a signature and contained my name.

So now my identity crisis continues. I report one of my previous posts that now contain the forged signature to a moderator, mprep, using the Sterlingcoin account I am using for this post. My thought was, maybe it was unwise of me to report this abuse of BCT and my identy within with an account that was only months old. I explained the situation briefly and asked for help. I was very happy to see the glimmer of hope when hilariousandco responded to the Sterlingcoin user with the brief instruction to make a post in meta and wait for an admin to sort it out.

To the moderators and admins, I do understand you must get requests like this in the loads daily. Some of which I am sure are fictitious and malicious in nature, slowing down the process for legitimate users in need of assistants. I do sincerely beg of BCT staff to expedite the handling of this matter. The user is now making posts using the account and my identity. None of the posts look to damning yet but, what do I do? Should I quote these posts and inform the involved communities that the account is hacked and to not trust the account as a hero member? None-the-less as myself for my name is still present in the account information.

I cannot stress enough how important this account is to me. I know some of you will be thinking, "Well you should have protected it better." I did have a 15 character password containing both capital and lower case letters and many numbers. Admittedly I did not have a security question defined but do not know if that would have helped any because I imagine that would have been changed as well. BCT staff, again, I beg of you for your prompt attention to this matter before more damage is done. Please help me.


Thank you in advance for any help you can give me in gaining access to my personal identity.

Very Sincerely,
Steven Saxton
(The real CryptoCanary)

p.s. I can also prove my identity using signed messages of Donationcoin, Sterlingcoin, and EverGreenCoin or any other method that might help reassure BCT staff that the account has been and is compromised in an effort to retain my personal identity.