My impression, I might be wrong, is that when you set a password for your account, all four of the private keys are generated from the password you set using some hashing algorithm, like a brain wallet. This means if someone knows your password, they can use this algorithm to generate your keys. For instance, I simply set a single password when I made my account, and since I read somewhere that our keys are not stored in any steemit.com database, I just assume there must be a hashing algorithm generating our keys from that password. However, it seems that we also have the option to reset any of the four keys independently, so there must be more to the story, since that implies the keys are not necessarily bound together. Perhaps someone can shed more light on this.
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I didn't think so much. But your suspect maybe correct too. But as I understood from your example maybe it'll be more easy to let other to generate your password, because you've first leaked your simple password during you created your account?? Who knows my computer have a trojan that stole everything ?? XD ....Wish some other can give us some explanation??