How did you lost your bitcointalk account? - page 2.

Every day I see many people complaining how they lost their accounts and want to recover them.
How the hell did you get your account lost/hacked?

We need a guide how to prevent this from happening if there isn't already one/few I'm not aware of.

I know some of the reasons I'm gonna list here:

First and main reason is the account selling. You buy account from a scammer, he gets the money, you get control over the account and soon he comes here, claiming that his account was hacked and trying to get it back by providing signed proof.
2015 hack. About the recent server compromise
The Secret Question option - if you try to recover you password using the secret question option, your account will be locked for revision from the admins. Thanks to Joel_Jantsen for the input
Third-party affected software/sites,wallets, fake mobile apps, compromised computers,trojan horses,keyloggers etc.
Phishing links, like bitcointalk.[to] bitcointallk.[org], or just clicking random faucet links...
Using weak or the same password on different sites or just email password without additional projection, Thanks to LTU_btc for the input
Using your account as collateral
Using Public Wifi Networks/Connections*, thanks to SFR10
Pure stupidity, like your wife (no offense) has access to the account and to all of your bitcoins....

*Does not affect so much the security as nowadays most of the sites /as bitcointalk/ use HTTPS request and they are encrypted so sniffing them is no use.

Am I missing something here??

Tell me your story.

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