Quote from: achow101 on September 19, 2016, 07:12:26 PM

Quote from: francisdean on September 19, 2016, 06:56:49 PM

You don't get it. If the hacker was able to change the email address instantly like what happened to us here then we "instantly" don't have and can't access our accounts anymore.

If he can't change our email address instantly, then the account won't do him any good.

In some cases like what you're stating before, what if both account and email was hacked? Then that's where the 24 hour process comes in.

Let's say you can't access your account so you use your email to retrieve it, (you can still retrieve your account using your old email because it takes 24 hours to update your profile) but what if the email was hacked as well, then you have 24 hours to retrieve your email before everything goes into shit.

It's very easy to retrieve email accounts as long as it's really yours.

If both your email and your Bitcointalk are hacked, then the 24 hours doesn't help you at all. You won't be able to access your email either so you can't fix anything.

You can always recover your email within 24 hours. Most people use Google, Hotmail, Yahoo and most of this services have great recovery options and live support. (except for Google; they suck at this)