Topic: Some mo-fo is tryin' to hack my ass. - page 2. (Read 566 times)

Yeah, I got my PM, posted in that thread, came back to this thread and you just turned me around like 720 degrees.  My head's a-spinning.  Lol.

My e-mail provider linked to his IP address, which I looked up.  It said it was a VPN, and whoever this rubberdick is used Bangladesh as the location.  Man, I hope it's not the gas station guy across the street from me.  That's not paranoid, is it?

Message received.

Man, my e-mail password for that throwaway account is so strong, it'd take an Avogadro's number of cryptographers a million lifetimes to crack it.  And then even if they hit the lottery they'd be left with a bunch of spam, because that's all that e-mail account receives.  But thanks for the advice anywho.

Damn right regardless of where you're at--I'm a nobody with nothing to my name, and who the hell would want to pick my account to hack?  I haven't pissed anybody off lately that I know of.  Maybe Big Brother Biden finally formed a crypto goon squad that's infiltrated bitcointalk and has started with retards like me.  That would actually make sense, given that it's Biden we're talking about.  Goddamn Weekend at Bernie's president with the real power having their arms up his sphincter to prop him up and get him to the church on time, if you know what I'm saying.

I don't even know what I'm saying.  Can't fuckin' sleep again.

Jayyyzus H Christ, some of you have memories like steel traps when it comes to little details like that post of mine.  I even forgot about that one, but you're probably right (although that was quite some time ago).  In any case, I did change my login details following that snafu.  And you're correct, that e-mail address you showed a pic of is definitely not mine.  Nor am I Italian or that old or that grey, though two of those three things are coming soon.

Funny you should take that poke at my teacup-sized memory.  My last staked address is from an Electrum wallet that I created especially for signing messages should I have to here, and I do have the seed phrase tattooed on the inside of my butt crack.  Nobody is ever going to find it there.

Its no secret bitcointalk was hacked multiple times and email addresses got leaked. Even I registered this kind of attack on my account dedicated to bitcointalk one week ago and I guess alot of other users were affected, too. It was only a matter of time untill we see a wide spread attack like this happens to related users/email accounts.

Unfortunately this. Default opsec like having strong and unique passwords for every service you use, two factor when possible like you stated and you should already be fine.

If someone goes full paranoid mode now, may the thread Stake your Bitcoin address here https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/stake-your-bitcoin-address-here-996318 is usefull to have a plan B for worst case scenario.

This type of thing happens a lot, if you're a user with a little bit of a reputation, regardless where you're at, then you'll likely see this. I've had business accounts which were particularly valuable in the past on other websites, and they literally non stop, every day, sometimes all day get password resets.

It's why some websites only allow a certain amount of requests, but that might then mean the legitimate user not being able to do it, because others have done it before them, and continue to do so.

These are usually very low, speculative malicious users though. So, can usually be safely ignored. As long as you have your credentials, and accounts secured, and ideally some sort of two factor authentication. You should be alright.

Had the same thing late July 1st and into July 2nd. 2 emails from someone trying to get into my account. I think whomever it is is probably trying it on multiple users and hoping they get lucky. It's like they think we are stupid and have simple passwords.

Maybe, I think your guess is right, maybe someone is trying to get into your account, via Email as I saw in the past.


They might try to tamper with the above email to get into your account, Looks like the hacker has failed, because it's not your real email.

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Or maybe it's your fault, as you post below, in the past.


Who knows the phishing site is trying to take advantage of the email and password you registered at that time, now they are just trying to enter, Topic: The .com forum.

in cases like this, it seems you have to remember the words that are often said by: TMAN.

Even if the person just knows your e-mail, they can't get into your account, the person must have to compromise your email so when the "reset password" message is sent to the email they can reset the password. Using the "forgot password" function when you have not taken custody of the email is a waste of time. I feel this is not a serious hack attempt, maybe somebody is just playing around.
Not too frightening The Pharmacist, if you still have the e-mails, confirm that they have not been compromised and change their passwords if possible, if they are toss-out e-mails you have no more and is not connected to you in any manner, you can forget about it. I still feel someone is just playing around, though do some security necessities.
unlikely to happen. You will get your account back fast if it happens though because of your reputation.

Just tried luck.
I don't really remember the account self-recovery method as I forgot when I last touched “forgot password”, maybe he thought there would be some method like social media accounts in general.

Of course, especially when it comes to spending smerit to bounties shitposter.
I hope you haven't forgotten where you put your staked address.

I don't know if it has anything to do with it but take a look at this thread:

weird pm received

In this case he talks about PM in the forum. It may have nothing to do with it or if it has something to do it will be some amateurs trying to hack forum members accounts in DT with great reputation.

Send the big man a PM with the time stamps of the emails, he might have the IP of the culprit.  Of course it could just be a tor exit node or whatever, but it could be not.



Um, no comment, but that's off topic. 



Sounds that way to me.



You should change all the passwords on those email accounts, pronto.  If they've been compromised you may not know unless the culprit sent an email.  Or changed the password. 



Honestly, it sounds like an amateur attempt.  Still you may want to assess the strength of the passwords for your forum account and the affiliated email account, and take action if needed.

The e-mail account I use on this forum I generally don't use for much else, but I happened to check it just a little while ago and got three e-mails from bitcointalk stating that someone had used the "forgot password" function for my account, and all three attempts were over the course of about an hour.

I'm not crazy, right?  That means someone is trying to get into my account, right?  What I don't understand is why that person would try to do that if they don't know what my e-mail is.

And after giving it a little thought, I have exposed a few e-mail addresses to members of the forum in the past, whether through deals or by becoming acquaintances with those members.  I'm wondering if one of those people thought I used whatever e-mail they had as my forum e-mail....and that's a frightening thought.

So if you should happen to see my account start posting in the Russian section or if my English deteriorates to brain-vegetable bounty hunter quality, just know that I got hacked and neg my account to high hell until I get it back. 

This is the first time something like this has happened to me since I've been a member.  Yikes.