Quote from: athanz88 on August 26, 2018, 02:11:59 PM

Thanks for a great guide and yes, it should be on sticky threads i guess, and it will be great if it can be on every local board too.

As the account security is fundamental and important thing, it would be good to have more exposure. I would appreciate if this thread is in the stickies and translated into other languages.

Quote from: athanz88 on August 26, 2018, 02:11:59 PM

By the way, mind if i translate it for my local board??

Sure feel free to translate this thread.

Quote from: LoyceV on August 26, 2018, 02:38:21 PM

Although I appreciate the endorsements, I don't think it's very likely for a user to go from "foot soldier" to Admin Cheesy

You deserve the position, we'll see

Quote from: mapuche33 on August 27, 2018, 05:18:04 PM

Honestly I'm not sure, I cannot recall if I was victim of phishing by making click on some URL posted on the forum. However, I remember using the search engine of btctalk days before being hacked (which asked me to login). Fake site bitcointalk.to I don't think so because I never remember my credentials so password-managers take care of it.

I think it is normal that forum search requires you to login. It should have not been a phishing site.

Quote from: mapuche33 on August 27, 2018, 05:18:04 PM

I always use different user names & random passwords on each site, also have several emails for different uses. The only thing that I regret is that my password wasn't that strong (12 characters) and after the 2015 data breach I changed the password by just adding a symbol. Also I should have done the homework of regularly changing all my password on January of this year but I didn't.
Even though, I still blame Admins because it could have been prevented just by being proactive.

It might have been a combination of data breach and brute force hacking if you added a symbol to the old password. I think now we really need to be careful about the protection of our accounts.