Quote from: jkoil on January 27, 2023, 05:06:21 PM

Quote from: armanda90 on January 27, 2023, 04:42:03 PM

Congratulation to @jkoil back to natural owner and seems all negative feedback due your account hack have been removed, you can start with new journey right now after several moths losing access to your own account. I think you need to make some topic about how to recovery account was hack and many user here ever in your position after they are losing with their account access.

You can make little advice or guide how you can recovering your account back and how long time you need when your account back to your hands, maybe will helped many user when losing their account due hacked access and they know what have to do.

Thanks.

good suggestion... what would be a right location for the "advices for hacked" topic?

Writing it just to this thread, coz thinking that Fighting The Account Mafia is a never-ending-process;)

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(Finally) Here would be some sort of description of how my BTT account fell into the wrong hands, sold, etc.

No other explanation has been found than the fact that the email account associated with the BTT account
was not used for 6 months.
The email service provider had changed the "inactive time" from 1 year to 6 months, which caused my "mistake" = "forgetting" (or missed the provider's notification email in other email inboxes).

After the email account had been inactive for 6 months, it was closed and then the email address was released to the open markets.
And someone X had taken it from there - for free.
And after that he had either sold that email account to Y, or reset the BTT password.
Anyway, either X, Y or Z took over my BTT account in July 2022.

I don't know how X would have guessed to try BTT-resetting, because there shouldn't have been any connection between the email address and BTT anywhere. I am remembering that the email address has been 'hidden' in my BTT settings.

Therefore there would be 3 options, why X decided to try to reset the BTT password:

1) pure guess or systematically tried for several sites
2) the email account had not been cleaned properly, but there would have been some emails that contained "bitcointalk"
3) Has there been a data leak on the BTT website? At least some years ago there was a warning on the page about "some hacking". That was the reason, why I changed my email address in that time. But, I do not know, if the email addresses could have been leaked then?

X tried to cover his tracks with different stories, e.g. that Google Support helped him.
It couldn't have been true, because Google was in no way connected to my BTT account or my BTT email account.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405076.msg60525631#msg60525631

Problem solution:
In August 2022 I contacted the BTT (admins and recoveries...@bitcointalk.org), and received instructions.
In December 2022 "BTT jury" decided that I am the real owner the jkoil account.
Maybe the delay was caused by the missing PGP or Bitcoin signature...
I have used no Bitcoin address on this forum; the only way to prove myself was to send a signed message from may NEM ICO wallet.

Also it may have helped a bit that I have written in the same "style" and "language" since Dec 2013 Wink

At least some members recognized the imposter by his postings

Other related:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405076.msg60706810#msg60706810
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0 ( signatures, etc. )
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5405076.msg60529510#msg60529510 ( "if a user never used a bitcoin address anywhere on this forum.." )

PS. Since the problem was not related to password hacking, I still avoid using the password managers Wink

... for my important passwords.