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Topic: How can I keep my Bitcointalk acc safe if truly it can be hijacked - page 2. (Read 304 times)

legendary
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Try learn how to protect your account, there's a bunch threads in this forum already explain it, just use google search to find it.

In short, if you want to protect your account, you can follow this few guide:
1. Sign a message from your non custodial wallet.
2. Hide your email address from public.
3. Make sure your account in this forum and email have different password.
4. Create strong password with various combination and use 2FA (if possible).
5. Regularly change your password every month.
hero member
Activity: 1162
Merit: 643
BTC, a coin of today and tomorrow.
It is not only by having access to your email that hackers can hack your account. There are many methods, but majority of hacked account was when the bitcointalk itself was hacked or hijacked, many people lost their account then.

Also you can lose your account by phishing bait, by clicking another link to login to a malicious website thinking it's btt.

Again your username is "Tamedbeast", a hacker can try to login your account by guessing random passwords like "TamedBtt" "Beast1234" "BeastTamed" and could be lucky if you use weak and guess able passwords.

You have to be privacy conscious even offline when using your phone close to friends or untrested people too.
legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 4795
Leading Crypto Sports Betting & Casino Platform
A link can also be sent you in a PM, if you click on the link, it would take you to a fake bitcointalk login page. If you enter you email and password, the hacker would know both and would be used to compromise your bitcointalk account.

To keep you account safe:
Use a strong password
Avoid the link I explained up there
Read this: Tips on how to keep your Bitcointalk forum account safe.
Always check your IP logs
legendary
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Merit: 2327
Marketing Campaign Manager |Telegram ID- @LT_Mouse
Make sure you aren't clicking on any phishing link, use a password which is combined of Capital and small letter, number and special character. Of course, avoid using common password. You are fine if you follow this.

A common phishing method-
People will send you message here saying they have responded in your topic/post and share link. Link will be seen as simple and from bitcointalk but the link inside is a phishing site.
newbie
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Merit: 8
Some people on here claimed that there BTT account got hacked or stolen I want to ask how this is possible, before someone can hack your account they need to get access to your email account right? If I am wrong can someone tell me how I can avoid this at all cost? .....
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