Topic: Request to un-ban account (Read 605 times)

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You are receiving this message because your email address is associated
with an account on bitcointalk.org. I regret to have to inform you that
some information about your account was obtained by an attacker who
successfully compromised the bitcointalk.org server. The following
information about your account was likely leaked:
 - Email address
 - Password hash
 - Last-used IP address and registration IP address
 - Secret question and a basic (not brute-force-resistant) hash of your
 secret answer
 - Various settings

You should immediately change your forum password and delete or change
your secret question. To do this, log into the forum, click "profile",
and then go to "account related settings".

If you used the same password on bitcointalk.org as on other sites, then
you should also immediately change your password on those other sites.
Also, if you had a secret question set, then you should assume that the
attacker now knows the answer to your secret question.

Your password was salted and hashed using sha256crypt with 7500 rounds.
This will slow down anyone trying to recover your password, but it will
not completely prevent it unless your password was extremely strong.

While nothing can ever be ruled out in these sorts of situations, I do
not believe that the attacker was able to collect any forum personal
messages.

I apologize for the inconvenience and for any trouble that this may cause.
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I think the main reason you want to recover your account because it'll have Full Member in this week . But I think it's nearly impossible to recover banned account.

I experienced this also before and moved on and just made a different account. Probably, you might have posted something similar to other posts in the web making it look like a copy paste. Or probably, you created accounts consecutively in a single internet provider which is like account farming.

Even if you email the given address, most probanly you wont receive any replies. You wont also know the exact reason why you were banned. So better yet move on and create another account and be careful with your actions.

Wrong if your address was quoted by someone else, it can't be altered.   My bitcoin address is XYZ, for instance.   So its the ultimate proof that this BTC address belonged to the original owner, if they can sign it.

Email Addresses can be hacked too, So they aren't the ultimate proof.


Anything other than Signing Bitcoin address is not considered valid.


Do you mean 'safecoin.org' account? Please provide links to your both accounts.


No.

In all cases, if an account were compromised, bitcoin addresses, PGP keys, and email addresses could all be altered by the hacker, and no doubt all of these scenarios have occurred on this forum.

While my associated website is currently private on whois,  I would like to propose using this as proof (I can change the settings....to be reflected in a day).   This whois information is tied to my personal address...my credit cards, my actual identity.  

In the case of both my accounts  (the original jjgallow and safecoin)

Would this be acceptable?

Hello,   I actually have read the sticky many times, for the last 2 years, but it specifically says it is for account recovery,   does not address banned accounts,  and does not ascertain standard proof of ownership.

I'm not saying you are wrong,  but I have read the sticky and would not have made this request otherwise.   I would gladly send a signed message but no PGP key was required on signin, and I responsibly maintained my ability to log in

Thank you

Hello,   I actually have read the sticky many times, for the last 2 years, but it specifically says it is for account recovery,   does not address banned accounts,  and does not ascertain standard proof of ownership.

I'm not saying you are wrong,  but I have read the sticky and would not have made this request otherwise.   I would gladly send a signed message but no PGP key was required on signin, and I responsibly maintained my ability to log in

Thank you

If the hashes did get stolen, then they also know your email. Which, a lot of people use the same password for multiple websites, which means emails could of been compromised too. There isn't any other way to prove ownership other than signing an address.

Not really. The standard proof of ownership is thru signing a message. So, basically, if you provide other proof other than signing a message then most likely it will not be entertained especially if it takes a lot of time to verify whether it can be or not. Please read the sticky like KWH said. You obviously didn't read it.

Thank you....in this case I can log in....and I have access  to the associated recovery emaIl...thus if I'm not mistaken I have the same proof of ownership as anyone else on this forum...

I could be mistaken but that is my understanding?

You still need to proof your ownership.

Isn't that for account recovery?

Read the easy to find sticky in Meta.