Topic: Protect Your Account - page 3. (Read 614 times)
Nice reminder. Maybe also check your others social media, create another e-mail purely for business purpose and never leave personal details, especially you're not using a centralized services. Some hackers might also try their luck hacking your Telegram account for example. Telegram are as important as e-mail nowadays.
Good advise, when I was starting in the forum, my email was displayed but later I realized that I could be prone to an unsolicited emails so I hide it until now. It's unfortunate that BitcoinGirl.Club fall for this hackers, hopefully he is alright and he can solve his problem, worse is he has some money on some accounts, damn, the timing is not even good, everyone needs money at the pandemic while hackers continues to do their heartless activities.
Newbie deserves to read this post, thanks for the concern @LFC_Bitcoin
Newbie deserves to read this post, thanks for the concern @LFC_Bitcoin
Going through a profile DB I have with 2.481.270 profiles, almost 56k accounts had an associates visible email.
That number (56k) is very high, users should hide their email addresses and should not use their btt email for any other purpose, whether the service is trusted or not; a unique address for your btt account would prevent phshing mails and malware links being sent to your email that could lead to a compromise of your email and your account as well. It looks more like some malware got installed after following a link.
Newbies should also verify links they receive in their mail box, never click on it, the hackers can design the link to look original and like its coming from providers you registered the email with for some service or the other, verify first and if you are 99% certain, don't click it. 
Also goes to show that PMs sent via bitcointalk shouldn't be considered very private.
A compromise in the account essentially means a compromise in its contents also.
End to end encryption is always best for messages that might be considered sensible.
To compromise a properly stored private key used for end to end encryption would require a full system compromise. Which is arguably harder than hacking a third party provider email address.
A compromise in the account essentially means a compromise in its contents also.
End to end encryption is always best for messages that might be considered sensible.
To compromise a properly stored private key used for end to end encryption would require a full system compromise. Which is arguably harder than hacking a third party provider email address.
I believe Newbies really need to see this. When I first noticed the hacking of Bitcointalk account activity some time ago. I just got this instinct of making use of that feature of hiding my email of from the forum which I believe they get into one's Account using that means of email. How wish 2af will be implemented on Bitcointalk.
Yes, the "hide email address from public" flag is on by default (meaning hidden), but I guess people are used to being rather social, and switch it of in many cases (some are business relate, and therefore deliberately conscious). Going through a profile DB I have with 2.481.270 profiles, almost 56k accounts had an associates visible email.
I figure though that BitcoinGirl.Club’s case is not down to the email being visible on the profile (I don’t think it was, and Archieve sites seem to show it as hidden historically, right up to a snapshot from a couple of days ago). It looks more like some malware got installed after following a link.
I figure though that BitcoinGirl.Club’s case is not down to the email being visible on the profile (I don’t think it was, and Archieve sites seem to show it as hidden historically, right up to a snapshot from a couple of days ago). It looks more like some malware got installed after following a link.
**Also posted in Meta but sharing here too. Even if it helps one person it’s worth it**
Please, I can’t stress this enough, please make sure the email address set to your account is private.
You may have seen what happened to BitcoinGirl.Club here - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoingirlclub-email-sent-to-recovery-5266437
I believe the hacker discovered his email address simply by clicking on his profile & discovering the email there & the rest is history.
If you haven’t already then follow these steps to make your email address hidden -
- Click Profile at the top of your browser
- Under Modify Profile on the left click Account Related Settings
- Make sure the circled box is ticked (example email address is not mine)
Safe surfing & fuck hackers!
Please, I can’t stress this enough, please make sure the email address set to your account is private.
You may have seen what happened to BitcoinGirl.Club here - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/bitcoingirlclub-email-sent-to-recovery-5266437
This is what I am understanding.
Yesterday evening after the poker game, I was doing my usual work. At some point, I was going to check my sportsbet T-shirt update. I was looking for the email sportsbet sent so that I get the link to fill up the form. I saw three emails. One already read. The two new with the update of they are running out of the t-shirts. So I opened one of the email, checked the link and it was taking too long time to load the page. When it was annoyingly late, I closed the tab but my system seemed unexpectedly slow. It happens sometimes and I usually force close the system and restart. I did the same and then started my usual work. When I wanted to login in few of my accounts it always asked me for passwords. Nothing flagged me though. I did not had any 2nd thought. When it was late I gone to bed. Today morning when I wanted to login to bitcointalk discovered everything. Before everything else I knew I had to reset my device which I did.
Now I do not have access of the email. All the accounts, exchanges, business, social media, gambling sites everything that had the email are fucked up. I am contacting each of the sites to help me changing the email addresses. I am going through a lot now. In some accounts I have money locked. This will not be a very easy ride for me. Everything fucked!!!
I do not deserve it. Thanks whoever you are.
Yesterday evening after the poker game, I was doing my usual work. At some point, I was going to check my sportsbet T-shirt update. I was looking for the email sportsbet sent so that I get the link to fill up the form. I saw three emails. One already read. The two new with the update of they are running out of the t-shirts. So I opened one of the email, checked the link and it was taking too long time to load the page. When it was annoyingly late, I closed the tab but my system seemed unexpectedly slow. It happens sometimes and I usually force close the system and restart. I did the same and then started my usual work. When I wanted to login in few of my accounts it always asked me for passwords. Nothing flagged me though. I did not had any 2nd thought. When it was late I gone to bed. Today morning when I wanted to login to bitcointalk discovered everything. Before everything else I knew I had to reset my device which I did.
Now I do not have access of the email. All the accounts, exchanges, business, social media, gambling sites everything that had the email are fucked up. I am contacting each of the sites to help me changing the email addresses. I am going through a lot now. In some accounts I have money locked. This will not be a very easy ride for me. Everything fucked!!!
I do not deserve it. Thanks whoever you are.
I believe the hacker discovered his email address simply by clicking on his profile & discovering the email there & the rest is history.
If you haven’t already then follow these steps to make your email address hidden -
- Click Profile at the top of your browser
- Under Modify Profile on the left click Account Related Settings
- Make sure the circled box is ticked (example email address is not mine)
Safe surfing & fuck hackers!
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