I am seeing a lot of people claiming that their accounts have been hacked. I am just baffled, I wasn't aware of this.
1)To those who have been hacked, do you know how that happened?
2)Does anyone know why hackers would steal a forum account?
3)I now realise the importance of staking my bitcoin address. Now my question is, do I have to use an address of those wallets that doesn't change after using it?
Those who got hacked haven't change their passwords since the forum got compromised back in 2014(cmiiw) or use the same passwords in every account.
Hackers steal old accounts so they could easily have access to higher rank accounts that has a green/neutral trust (can be used for scamming) or sell them on the marketplace.
You don't have to use the address all the time just store it somewhere safe where only you have the access to it.
3. You don't necessarily have to stake your address. If you used any address in the past to make a transaction with another user, even if it was part of a signature campaign, you need to just sign a message with it to provide proof of ownership.
Make sure that the post isn't edited or has to be quoted by another user.
