Precious Hive - Don't let it be stolen

in BDCommunity3 years ago

He walked along the footpath but was lost in deep thought. What had gone wrong? He had lost his account but how?

Hive was dear to him and he wrote regularly and also had saved his passwords in a safe place. He wondered how the hacker had got hold of his account. though.

He then remembered getting an email about a scheme and had opened it to check it out and that's all he did. He had not given any details away but after that, he had logged out and gone to work.

After his work, he had logged in to see numerous messages that warned him to change his leys aka password.

To his dismay, he noticed that someone had hacked his account. He contacted the authorities and went on to secure his account by recovering it using his master password.

True it would take some delay but at least it was safe. Also, it was not a centralized platform like Amazon where many had 'lost' their accounts for good after a hack.

He wrote about how his account was hacked so that he could warn others about it.

The above is fiction but please be warned and never click any attachment or email that seems to be fishy and claims fantastic stuff. No money is free money, so don't fall for such scams.
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wow what's going on? i guess i need to read that post zaku shared

yeah, sad.

It is good advice not only for the newbies but for mildly experienced users of any of the blockchain/cryptocurrencies. One thing I would like to add, not for HIVE Blockchain, to never ever give the secret word a.k.a pass phrase of any of your wallet to anyone however tempting the offer is.

Posted Using LeoFinance Beta

yes, indeed, and never store it in a place where strangers could get hold of it. I remember a guy writing that he had placed his phone near the window and it was stolen and out went his accounts too.

Posted Using LeoFinance Beta

and never store it in a place where strangers could get hold of it

👍

Few day ago one of my friends here link on the free hive link and thanks to key-defender they saved her account by sending a message, she changed her password ASAP that was a good decision indeed
All the users should be aware of all the things

yes indeed.

We need to be more careful about it now.
In my discord,there are also too many scam massages like these. But thanks that i got warning about these in the beginning of my journey on seeing others falling on these traps.

yes, we have to be alert always.

Hi @sayee, your post has been upvoted by @bdcommunity courtesy of @rehan12!


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