Some people on here claimed that there BTT account got hacked or stolen I want to ask how this is possible, before someone can hack your account they need to get access to your email account right? If I am wrong can someone tell me how I can avoid this at all cost? .....
It's not necessary a hacker needs to access your email in able to hack your account(assuming BTT changing password procedure doesn't change) since it only needs to determine your username and password here to access your account to change password and email. You will just have a notification on email to that you change your account details and have a time to recover it using the email but it's nonsense if the account being hacked is not active anymore.
Most of the account being are dormant account which hacker being target by brute forcing it. Having a 2FA and strong security password is the best way to protect your forum account aside from the basic security knowledge mention above by other user.