Hi all, someone hacked my password and spread this, I'm sorry to all those infected.
I had my password also hacked here on bitcointalk forum many months ago... Hacker was spreading malware links using my account.
I received many pissy messages from people. I believe you 100%. I told the moderator and basically they told me my password wasn't strong enough... B.S.!
and this site doesn't let you try to log in again for 45 seconds every time you typo the password, which makes me think its an inside job.
Weird thing is that when I went to log into the forum Google Chrome/Firefox both had my login saved so I don't remember which one I used at the time, but
I went to reset my password to something else and it told me I have no password set yet, and I need to make a password for my account!?!?
So does this forum have a shoddy backend that loses your password in rare instances and then lets malicious people log into your account without a password? or was
it an inside job...
Anyways moral of this story is that you are not alone and I am another who has been down your road and have a strike against my account for it.
If I start a new user account again to remove my negative mark on my account then I start off as a newbie again, I don't know, but the whole thing pisses me off, and
now I strictly use Slack for chatting and only go on here to warn people of my misfortune here.
Or you could be a little smarter and not save your passwords in Chrome/Firefox autofill. That shit is stored in plain text on your system. I learned the hard way, but so did you. You just didn't learn from it.
I was hacked around the same time you were. Probably by the same person. It wasn't an inside job. I just downloaded a bad wallet that contained a RAT. The "hacker" then copied my passwords from Chrome and whatever. I reformatted before any real damage was done, but I still have people trying to log my accounts to this day.
Your password probably wasn't strong enough. If you can remember your password it's not strong enough. If you use browser autofill you're basically compromising yourself.
The forum was compromised at some point too. Nothing wrong with the backend, just the way the world works. If you had a robust password manager then you would know about these things as they happened and be able to change all of your passwords with 1 click. Plus have 2FA.