After being away for a few days in the forum, it was a surprise to receive an e-mail from the forum. However, this e-mail, which I received today, and which I just read an hour ago was very serious and alarming. It had stated in the e-mail that my account's e-mail and my password was accessed and was changed by someone from a certain IP address. I panicked and tried to log in to my account, which of course, I can no longer access. I thought that maybe I have mistyped my password but I didn't. I tried using the "Forgot Password" setting but it didn't work, it stated that there's no account associated with my email address.
I searched for any related threads that may help me regain my account but to my dismay, the only thing I found was by means of contacting the admin, which of course, will take some time. I was losing hope, then, and so I reread the e-mail sent to me and saw the link from which I can lock my account. I was on the verge of doing so, when I decided to check the "new" e-mail that was used to change my email address. It lead me to a
yopmail account , which I found out is accessible to anyone. And since it is accessible to everyone, I decided to use it to recover my account.
How did I recover my account?1. I logged into my account using the "forgot password" setting. Then, a recovery link was sent to the "yopmail account" which can be used to change the password of your account.
2. After changing the password of my account, I also changed my email address, and added a new security question for additional security.
3. Afterwards, I deleted all the forum's messages in the yopmail account so as to prevent the hacker from undoing my change password nor locking my account.
I also found similar threads regarding hacks and email address change using yopmail account. I even found one, which was hacked using the same IP address.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-account-hacked-and-email-changed-4678021 >> This one was hacked using the same IP address used in hacking my account.
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/my-account-was-been-hacked-4542446 >> In this thread, the account was also hacked by means of changing the email address with a temporary yopmail account.
Furthermore, I also used a google authenticator so as to help me in securing my email address.