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legendary
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August 03, 2020, 08:15:00 PM
#10
Please, I can’t stress this enough, please make sure the email address set to your account is private.
Yeah should be a must for every User and i have done that since i am here at the first day !
Sad to hear and readed a bit of the Account that got hacked.

You can also check if your email was on a data breach here :

https://haveibeenpwned.com/

Safe surfing & fuck hackers!

I agree with you on that fully
legendary
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August 03, 2020, 06:47:59 PM
#9
Extra careful upon handling our accounts, treat this as one of your valuable stuff if you value your account. So far, I never change password and I never visit my email address.
Agree with the bolded part above 100%, and that sucks nuts that BitcoinGirl.Club got hacked like that.

I would probably cry like a baby if that happens to me mygoodness.
I probably would as well, and it would drive me insane trying to undo whatever damage had been caused by the hack, plus I'd probably be paranoid as hell for an indeterminate amount of time.  I've had my e-mail address in my BCT profile hidden for as long as I can remember, but I changed my e-mail address to a throwaway one just now. 

OP, I appreciate you creating this thread.  Even though I was apparently safe, it's a good thing to let the community know about things like this that they might not even think twice about, especially newbies who might not be aware of how many hackers and scammers there are in the cracks and under the floorboards of the forum.
hero member
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August 03, 2020, 06:44:25 PM
#8
It was long time since I checked the hide email option but isn't this checked already as a default option when your profile is visited? If it's not then I think it is a goode idea to have hide the email option checked as default so things like this won't happen more often. It seems likein BitcoinGirl.club's case the email he was using was also their business and at the same time the email of his Bitcointalk account. So maybe for people who wanted to be contacted for marketplace purposes I think it's a good idea to use a different email not connected to any accounts so you lessen the risk of this happening.
legendary
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August 03, 2020, 05:58:07 PM
#7
This is the best recommendation, hiding your email address for your account protection.

I saw BitcoinGirl.Club has a thread on gambling if I'm not mistaken that was related to T-shirt design. Probably Pam has the practice to have a notification in every thread he has and I think the notification was directly sent to your email address which that option I dont like. Why not use a telegram bot notification instead, and TryNinja was made it(the @BTTSuperNotifier_bot ) and has a feature to notify us through telegram. I think that is safe than clicking notification through your email address used.

Extra careful upon handling our accounts, treat this as one of your valuable stuff if you value your account. So far, I never change password and I never visit my email address.
copper member
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August 03, 2020, 05:55:08 PM
#6

I believe the hacker discovered his email address simply by clicking on his profile & discovering the email there & the rest is history.


I am not sure about this. As recently as June 28, BitcoinGirl.Club had their email address hidden.

Either the setting was changed since then, their email leaked from one of many database leaks of bitcoin related services, or someone knew their email address some other way.
legendary
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August 03, 2020, 05:42:14 PM
#5
I had my email address shown public on my profile. It's not my main email, I don't use it for exchanges and other important things. But probably it's not smart to show it in public, so I just hide it after I read this post. It's not just about security - email shown in public means that will get lot of spam.
Hate to see what happened to Pamoldar. I just hope that hacker wasn't able to touch his funds on exchanges or other significant damage.
legendary
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August 03, 2020, 05:37:43 PM
#4
I've personally set a fake email for my account, that way even if they do discover it, it can't be used to reset my password.

If you use this method, just make sure the domain can't be bought, since that way they could just create the email and reset it that way.

Something like [email protected] would work. Basically anything that the system recognizes as a valid email domain, but isn't actually possible to buy (e.g. no such subdomain exists).

Be careful using this method though. If someone gains access to your password you're completely f*cked.
legendary
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August 03, 2020, 04:21:12 PM
#3
Unfortunate to see this happening.
I had some fools tried to hack my profile several times, and I made a topic for one of them:
How Scammer tried to Hack my Bitcointalk and how to Protect yourself?

It is also good to learn more about phishing and pass few tests:
[LEARN] Phishing Quizzes - Beginners & Experts

I would suggest anyone to avoid clicking any links in PM or in emails and double check senders address.
Stay safe!
sr. member
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August 03, 2020, 03:29:15 PM
#2
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.

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!
Oh man that was really a fucked up situation, imagine getting out of bed in the morning just to know that everything you own is gone tf. I would probably cry like a baby if that happens to me mygoodness.

This is why I'm using some alternative email addresses and I got a copy of them in an offline excel sheet, just making sure that no one else can touch it, I recommend doing this especially if you have many accounts on different website and platforms.

Follow the steps on how to hide you email address in the forum, everyone is a target
legendary
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August 03, 2020, 03:11:04 PM
#1
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.

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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