How I Got Hacked on Steemit... and Made Money $$$$$
So about 6 days ago I tried to go login to Steemit and my password didn't work. I tried my private key and everything, but quickly realized I was locked out. Frantically I submitted a password recovery request and then went to my account page and looked at my wallet.
At first glance it appeared that someone was trying to withdraw all my SBD and Steem and I was pissed! Then upon closer inspection I noticed that whoever was moving my money to various bid bots, was actually boosting my own posts!
I have no idea why someone would do this, but I think I'm the only person ever who got blessed with a benevolent hacker. I want to give a huge shoutout to the Steemit team for helping me quickly recover access to my account so I can keep on posting!
Big thank you again to the steemit team for helping me recover my account!
@ned @the-alien @michael1
APPARENTLY, the hacker was oblivious to the fact that we have account recovery, thought he had complete control and decided to inflate everything until he could rape the power-downs... That's my guess!
@underground I'm still confused by what happened, but yea seems like he was boosting away to grow the account so that he could power down with more $ in it.
Is it possible you will get your account back? @woodrow
I got it back @majidawan ! the awesome people at Steemit were great!
I had to go and check your wallet was tempted to do so 🙈
All good @rudee, so weird right! They started the power down, then stopped it.
What a story! You'll be glad you SBD and Steem were boosted...
Cool to hear this, Facebook's "team" doesn't do anything for anyone lol
Glad you got back into your account and your SBD was still there.
Yea me too, couldn't believe that all of it hadn't been transferred out!
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Sorry for being hacked but its like the person did you a favour
the hacker seemed to have provided you with christmas and new year present ..happy new year 2018..happy steeming journey :)