Topic: Caution: My Hero account has been potentially compromised (Read 2641 times)

The one good thing the hackers did to your account is rank it up from Hero to Legendary   JK.

Congrats on getting your account back. Never seen someone so persistent to recover a forum account which was hacked 2 years back

Two years, four months just for account recovery. That's one long phase, but better late than never!

Also, better close the thread now it's all resolved.

A sight for sore eyes.

I gave a merit to you for being a persistent person.

I believe this is the first one you ever earned

The others were airdropped to you.

I also gave him a trust.

Meanwhile while he waits for Lutpin for remove his precautionary negative trust rating, I gave manselr a neutral trust rating saying that he restored access to his account. The negative rating should still be removed though in my opinion. And welcome back OP.

Well i would love to first congratulate you. Persistence finally paid off after all that long time.
You can edit the posts to just a dot ".", Change the title to "delete"  and the move them to the archival board

You can also contact both Lutpin and KWH through PM and inform them that you have recovered you account so that they can remove the feedback in case they don't see these thread.

So I've finally got the account back. I would appreciate if some admin can delete threads by these scammers:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50017443
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.50027067
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.25260675
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.25260537

I would also appreciate if Lutpin can remove my negative trust thing that was set as a precaution.

2 years and 4 months!!



Admins or whoever work on saving accounts are lightning fast in this forum! And OP is still around too. Never give up!

It's not useless as you think. The pattern of the IP helps logs provide evidence that indeed you account changed hands of course taking into account your staked addresses too.

I also lost my account to hackers once and do you know what saved me? That IP recording thingy and my original email address. I didn't even have a staked bitcoin address.

Otherwise, good news for you OP. Your account has been Queued for recovery. In a few days you should be able to access it.

Did you ever restore access to your account? It's been years since you started this.

By the way, staking a PGP key in the bitcointalk PGP key database at https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/the-bct-pgpgpg-public-key-database-stake-your-pgp-key-here-1159946 would've helped you recover your account faster because that is what PGP is intended to do, identity verification, as opposed to bitcoin address signing which, while also reliable, wasn't what bitcoin was designed for in the first place. More people look at PGP than bitcoin addresses as a utility to verify identity.

Did you follow the instructions in Recovering hacked/lost accounts? There's an email address there in which you can send a signed message to. Try to send your signed bitcoin messages to that address because it's unlikely that theymos saw this thread. Although since you can't access your email your chances of getting your account back are low especially since you've waited for a long time, years in your case. Bumping the thread probably won't help at this point.

If your email was compromised by password guessing/stolen password hash or SIM swap then you should take the time to use BIP39 passphrases for your email without a linked phone number https://iancoleman.io/bip39/. Security and convenience are usually exclusive.

I would take this experience as a hard lesson to use PGP in your daily online forum life so that you can recover from this kind of incident quicker. I am not suggesting you make another account and I don't know how you should go forward after this. Maybe you should ask other people around here if you can continue posting with this account.

Yes, I used Tor and I think most people here with a clue would use Tor or VPNs, because there's scammers everywhere trying to dox you/hack you/etc. IP should be pretty irrelevant, what matters most is signed BTC keys, and I still have all of my keys. I tried with the old method years ago and eventually gave up, recently I wanted to post again and so tried again. Even if im inactive I don't want my account to end up in some ICO scam or being used to promote other scams (and that is what happened as you can see on my latest posts).


I already told them that I clicked it using Tor. Like I said before, IPs are pretty irrelevant these days. The whole point of people stacking addresses here is if something goes wrong you can recover the account. I have addresses from years ago in unedited posts, closed threads etc. I can sign all of them.

The IP address will be used to make comparisons with your IP address logs just before the account was hacked. The IP addresses don't have to be exactly the same but it could give a clue about the difference in your location and the hacker's IP location which can help the recovery team decide on whether to start off with the process of recovery or not.

If necessary, i think you should send them another message explaining that you visited the IP verification link using Tor so that you can retry the step.

Did you access the forum via tor normally when you were using it previously? Or did you access it from your local internet connection? Even if your IP address were to change, the ISP you are using would show as being the same, along with your general location.

Being that you opened this thread years ago, it may not be unreasonable for either of these to have changed, so you may not pass this verification.

Considering the amount of time that has passed, I would strongly encourage you to create a new account. You would probably be legendary by now if you created one in 2017, or close to one.

Im trying to get my account back through the new method. Already sent the signatures that they requested via email. I still have all of the addresses I used with my account so I can sign all of them. My question is, I was asked to click on a link, it says:

"OK, your current IP was recorded and will be used as part of verification."

But I clicked while using Tor, so the IP changes all the time. Is there a problem with that? even my real IP changes all the time as it's dynamic. Anyway, I haven't been explained what this link is for. Im just hoping the signed BTC addresses are enough to recover the address, if that isn't enough to get an account back then I wonder who is getting their hacked accounts back.

This is absolutely fucking insane. I have been waiting for more than a year to get my account bank. I need it for tax stuff as well as getting in contact with people that I was sending PM's with. Please someone send this whole thread to theymos and Cyrus. STOP THE MADNESS!

Guinness world record

Monthly bump.

Maybe I can make a new record of 1 year of wait after giving all the proof needed that someone hacked my account. Unbelievable how fucked up this forum is.

Really strange

It's been 8 months and counting, still no reply from either cyrus or theymos. This is insane. C'mon guys... this must be a joke.