I don't think your account was hacked. Just @bearbear613 messing with you! Below I'm gonna show you how I can change my profile pic to be yours without hacking your account:
- Visit your profile
- Right-click on your profile picture and click "Inspect"
- In the image url it's showing me that the image came from steemitimages.com
- To display your image to me, the browser had to download it somewhere. If I click on the "Sources" tab, I can see steemitimages.com as one of the sources and if I follow the whole path in the url, I see this
- Aha! So I have your profile pic now! Now I'm going to copy it's url to set my profile pic to yours
- This is what my profile page looks like. No picture at all.
- Now I'm going to set my "Profile Picture Url" to your image's url and click "Update"
- And now we have the same profile picture!
So as you can see, it was not as much hacking as it was mere shenanigans. :)
P.S. I changed my profile picture to yours just to show you how it can be done. I have changed it back to nothing. :)
Great thank you for that good explanation. I wasn
t aware that it is so easy to copy and paste the profile image. I made this post for everyone who also didnt know about this issue...now we are all little bit smarter!!! I think to copy a personal picture is more like a moral issue...I still don`t know why he did it. It makes no sense.