First of all gotta say thank you for all the useful replies and helps
And again sorry for the long reply time and that i reply all of you in a batched reply (since newbie can't post as fast as a member or so)
I think the reason why you are hacked is that you use, a simple password
my suggestion:
1. don't use your name as a password
2. don't use the birthday as the password
3. never use 123456 password
4.When trying to make a password use capital letters numbers special characters
5. Secure your registred email name, if the email hacks for sure all connected to that email will be a hack
6. add another level of security to those emails
What to avoid:
1. Don't connect to a free wifi connection, there might someone watching or gathering information in the network
2. avoid using your email address, to register to unknown registration or suspicious sites
3. never lend your account or left it open always logout.
this might help you next time,
Yes, i will try to not to use basic password anymore, thanks for the tips tho
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Just to point out that any potential recovery process is much smoother, and likely to have a positive outcome, if you can sign a bitcoin message or pgp message from an address you might have written on the forum at some point (ideally, in an unedited post, or quoted by somebody else).
The hacker may or may not have gone through prior posting history to deleted these addresses, but there is also the off-chance that it may have be quoted by somebody else.
If posts have been edited by the hacker, you may (slim chance though) find some archived posts using tools such as TheWayBackMachine, which may have captures a snapshot of something relevant at some point in time.
Uh, sadly i haven't posted any signed bitcoin message or even a pgp message, actually, for now I'm still learning how to use them properly. But i could got in into my old wallet at blockchain.com which it's address has been assigned to my old account (it was a feature back then to assign bitcoin address to your account, again as i remembered and also some proof from
Forum account: security, privacy, and recovery screenshot to backup my hazy memory). I don't know if that could be a proof or not, but i also made some trades selling some digital goods at this forum tho. I don't know if it helps or not. But thanks for the information, really appreciate it
Sorry for the really late reply (I've been doing research on how my account was hacked and when did it happened, i have a hazy memories about it, it's kinda emotional to me that i wanted to forget it lol)
Thank your details and again welcome you to use the forum again.
The first thing you must check is finding your hacked account is still usable or was banned.
BPIP.org and
loyce.club/bans are third party tools to use. With first website, enter account username or userid to check. With second website, use Ctr+F and type your username or userid, Enter.
Inactive is not a good result, that could be caused by a ban.
As far as my research goes, the account is inactive after promoting some kind of altcoin (at around 2018)
A wave of bans: 400 yesterday, 300 the day before. What changed?. Good luck if your account was not banned in May, June 2019.
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Looks like my account is inactive not because of ban, but because it made into a scamming account or some kind. I made that speculation because i didn't found my old account name on the second website, and it only says inactive for 2 years on the first website (also the first website is kinda confusing to read, i'm sorry xd).
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Not many users set a secret question for account.
Why tho? is it riskier to setup a secret question? is it better to leave it blank? Now i hesitate to put a secret question.
Because the forum does not support 2fa you can instead use 2fa on the email you used to register since its the only way to recover fast once your account got hacked so your email address is very important on the recovery process a simple tips I can give you can always bookmarked the forum official site link to avoid possible phishing attacks and also try to avoid downloading malicious softwares from different websites it might contains malwares that can copy your computers passwords.
Okay, thanks for the tips, i'll keep that in mind
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Edit:Since DdmrDdmr replied by editing their post, I'm also doing the same thing here.
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Just to point out that any potential recovery process is much smoother, and likely to have a positive outcome, if you can sign a bitcoin message or pgp message from an address you might have written on the forum at some point (ideally, in an unedited post, or quoted by somebody else).
The hacker may or may not have gone through prior posting history to deleted these addresses, but there is also the off-chance that it may have be quoted by somebody else.
If posts have been edited by the hacker, you may (slim chance though) find some archived posts using tools such as TheWayBackMachine, which may have captures a snapshot of something relevant at some point in time.
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I'd include that in your email to account recoveries, just in case they can work with any of what you mention there.
I've sent an email, hopefully they will be able to recover my old account with given information from me.
