Quote from: FrostOriginal on August 21, 2017, 03:12:52 PM

Serious question. How is it even possible that someone changed the mail address of the mentioned account?

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So, how was the person able to change the email address?

That was my initial concern. Once you have gained accessed to any account here in bitcointalk, consider it yours since you can change the email and everything without having to confirm anything externally. If email change would require email verification in this forum that would be great.

Quote from: FrostOriginal on August 21, 2017, 03:12:52 PM

It's absolutely impossible that the person had access to my email address. This is most likely a hack due to the leaked bitcointalk database.

That could be one factor. If you haven't changed your password for the last two years (and have a generic one too), there is a large possibility that the hacker gained access by referring to your password salt from 2015 that's still up somewhere online.

Quote from: FrostOriginal on August 21, 2017, 03:12:52 PM

Also, as said, there is no address linked to my account. I contacted the new account holder now and referred him to this thread. I'd like to know how he got the account. Probably bought it in the forum from someone who hacked my account.

Again, an admin would just need to set back the email to the address that was used previously.... then I could recover my account. Apart from that, admins could contact the user celeborne, he knows information's about me that the new account user can't know. Also taking a look at the IP's and posts that I mentioned should show that there is something wrong.

If admins did that to your case, that would be unfair since most of us here recovered our account by providing undeniable proofs that it is indeed us who owned the account.