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Hi there,

Loyal bitcointalk user here since April 2013. I've been a while away from the forum, but hours ago I tried to log into my account but that was not possible. I clicked "forgot password", entered my mail but nothing arrived at my mail address that was used for the account "Frost". At that point I wondered if my account would be hacked and opened the profile: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=94117

It was now clear that my account is hacked. Profile picture was changed from a Curt Cobain photo to picture with the logo "Social". The person was active on August 20, but that was not me. I looked into the account and saw tons of new posts that I didn't write.

Most of my last posts were made in this thread when I bought two GPU's: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1945504.msg19512302#msg19512302
Everything after this was not written by myself.

I used the account for both, communication about cryptocurrencies in English threads and German threads. Which means, I do write fluent German as I am German. I wonder if the new account holder can do this too.

Isssue is that I didn't sign an address with this account. Using the wayback machine, there are two addressed linked to my account, however I don't control the keys, which means they were addresses from platforms, not from a wallet. I must have been stupid back then in 2013 and should have put in addresses that I control.

I see some possibilities to proof that I am original account owner...

- I can show you a topic reply notification mail from the forum related to the  thread were I made my last posts: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1945504.msg19512302#msg19512302

- A mod/admin contacts the user celeborne https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=965120 who sold me the two GPU's. He must have PM'd me his Ethereum address where I did send him the Ethers for the 2 GPU's. Since I still control this wallet, I could send a transaction from it again with custom data included.

- I contact the new account holder and hope that he gives my account back. I assume he bought the account in the forum. Sadly it's a hacked account, and I was the owner previously.

- My log ins must have been from German IP's until the posts where I bought the GPU's. After that the IP's might have changed because the new account user might be from another country.

- I still control the previous email address from the provider @alice.de

Please help me to get the account back. I've been loyal user since 2013 and would be happy to get the account back.

Forum comment made in the following thread will probably have a completely different IP because it was not written by me or from my location: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1935179.msg20032454#msg20032454
As same as all comments after this made with the account.

It is unlikely that the admins will help you recover your account if you do not have a staked address.
Your best bet is to convince somebody in DT trust that your account has been hacked (possibly through contacting celeborne and verifying the ETH address), then they can give this account negative trust. Then you can negotiate with the person in control of your account to get your account back.

Regarding the ETH address that is under you control, is it from myetherwallet.com or from an exchanger? If it is from myetherwallet.com then you can sign a message from it.

It is actually from an installed wallet. It seems I can insert custom data with transactions. Is that what signing a message means?

Signing a message is using your address to create a message and provide a unique signature that is verifiable using multiple sources to prove that you actually own that particular address. Also, in recovering hacked accounts, a signed message from any address that you may have posted in this forum prior to the hack is needed for you to prove ownership of the account.

Serious question. How is it even possible that someone changed the mail address of the mentioned account?

It's absolutely impossible that the person had access to my email address. This is most likely a hack due to the leaked bitcointalk database.

So, how was the person able to change the email address?

Also, as said, there is no address linked to my account. I contacted the new account holder now and referred him to this thread. I'd like to know how he got the account. Probably bought it in the forum from someone who hacked my account.

Again, an admin would just need to set back the email to the address that was used previously.... then I could recover my account. Apart from that, admins could contact the user celeborne, he knows information's about me that the new account user can't know. Also taking a look at the IP's and posts that I mentioned should show that there is something wrong.

I wrote the guy who is using my account now. Since there is no reply from the person, I assume it's actually the person who hacked my account.

I still need help.

theymos has assimilated your account for scam purposes.
Ah, the "social campaign. Must be earning him a pretty penny.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2111476.msg21142262#msg21142262

Oh, there is GideonGono again, and others!

I wouldn't be surprised....

- Account selling allowed in this forum
- Blatant scams allowed
- Database leaked (probably sold)
- The "hacker" can takeover account and change email, while original account creator doesn't get notification about email change
- The "hacker" can change profile picture, account creator couldn't
- No help from admin or staff to get accounts back (the forum is filling of hack complains)

What a scammy forum this is. They push away loyal users and don't give them support when their accounts are hacked but they feed this mothefucker account mafia instead. But really, who knows, maybe they are even involved in this.

Nice. Someone's on the ball!
(corrected. i know)

I think you are going way to far with this..Why the hell would staff be involved with this?Your account was probably hacked by someone who knows your password - you downloaded a phishing program that have keylogs implemented that steals your passwords - You went through a phising website that steal passwords.Do some research before talking non-sense.If you want staff help,you have to sign a message from an adress that was in your account.Otherwise staff wouldn't believe that you are the true owner of that hacked account.

To take our bitcoin. Your probably involved.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2108860.msg21079129#msg21079129

Bullshit. The password was leaked, I promise you. There is zero chance that I downloaded a keylogger lol. As same as there is zero chance that I clicked on a link to a phising website. I work in the IT sector, I am not like you grandaddy who clicks throught the internet like a non-swimmer swims through the water.

Don't tell me what to do... I post here until this is resolved.

By the way, I wrote the person behind my hijacked account a PM, including the link to this thread here. How comes he doesn't join to tell his story?

I'd like to speak German with him. If he is the owner, he must be able to speak German fluently... just check his account history...

Also again, what is the deal.... admins/mods would just need to set email back to the previous used one.... this guy is not controlling my email.

There is zero help here.... so...

This forum is pro hacker and contra loyal users.

So now you are saying that I am a scammer?Okay....Are you dumb or what?I AM the one who warned all of these poor users who were desperated in posting in this scammer forum without getting paid.I was simply hired by the scammer as a MODERATOR and he also promised to pay me which he didn't.Stop talking non-sense you dumb.Without me opening the scam accusation,people would still be posting now expecting a payment from the scammer.

Staff members don't have time for you.Either you sign a message using a stacked adress in your account and send to them via pm either don't contact them saying that your account got "hacked" without any proof that you own actually that account otherwise don't expect a single pm from them.And I'm not saying what you should do.You posted here seeking for help,I told you the solution.Accept it or not that's your own freaking problem.Good bye

Scammer.

I feel for you.

Frost probably speaks Chinese now?
I agree with bolded above. I think we can deduce who that "hacker" is?

This is the god like syndicate Blockstream/Core/theymos/bitcointalk cutting edge tech all run on a pi

I am not the offender here, I am victim and I have enough proof. The fact that a posted bitcoin address is the only way to get accounts back here, shows that something is trully wrong here. Again, if you want to defend the hacker, go on, but I can't follow your logic. You must be very interested to blame me as a victim here.

Maybe you're really into this shit too? I tell you what, the "Frost" account is now worthless anyway... I gonna stalk him through the forum- Whenever he writes something with my account, I gonna quote him and tell the people what kind of a scamming motherfucker he is. In case I get banned for this, it'll be the last time I open this forum, because it would just show that they support hackers, but oppose loyal forum members.

Again...

- How comes my email was changed without notification?
- How comes he could change the profile picture?
- Why is he not joining this thread?
- Why can't mods/admins not set the mail back to the old one so that I can recover the account?
- Why is it only possible via posted BTC address?
- Could it be that the guy behind my account hates to use Google translate or why don't I get a chance to check his German grammar?
- Why are you defending hackers? What is your goal?

I tell you something, you can continue defending the hacker.... I gonna update this thread every day until my issue is either resolved or I am banned (which would tell me that mods are behind account stealing). It's that easy.

I will check in tomorrow. Good luck.
I have negotiated the return of accounts before (free of any charge), if you still want it back(?) i am willing to help.

Of course I want my account back. Not sure how you want to negotiate, I even wrote Theymos on Reddit and got no reply there. You'd be my hero if you can do magic to get my account back  ;D

no way,they are too busy,there are so many accounts that has been hacked.

I'm not interested in this kind of accusation that confesses he is me, it's a funny joke LOL....... and I do not need to respond to things like this, because if you keep talking about something that is not clear and that all you talk about is shitpost, spampost, bullshit whatever you want. LOL.....

I can also just to create a new account and claim to be rizzlarollaOriginal and I request rizzlarolla account to be returned because rizzlarolla account has been stolen LOL..... LOL..... it is a joke and not be must responded.


OP really have exaggerate been claiming you are me, mathefucker.. I'm very sure OP is just jealous of me because OP is not accepted in the social campaign and then OP wants to drop me and hoping that DT members can tag me for red trust. LOL......

Frost... I have a couple of questions....

- Wie sind deine Deutsch Kenntnisse?
- Du hast vor einiger Zeit 2 GPU's gekauft. In welches Bundesland hat der Verkäufer sie geliefert? Und aus welchem Bundesland kamen sie?
- Hast du von diesen GPU's ein Foto gemacht nachdem sie angekommen sind?
- Wieviel hast du für beide CPU's bezahlt und mit welcher Währung?
- Kannst du von der gleichen Adresse eine Transaktion machen mit einer Notiz?
- Kannst du dem Verkäufer via Privatnachricht nochmals die Trackingnummer der Lieferung geben?
- Wie lautet dein Vorname?
- Warum habe ich in meinem Email Postfach Benachrichtigungen zu dem vorher genannten Verkaufsstrang mit den Karten?
- Woher hast du den Account? Hast du ihn selbst gehackt mit Hilfe des Datenbank Leaks oder hast du den Account von jemanden gekauft?

Did your English get worse? Why did you English get worse out of the sudden? 

Oh yes, we both will indeed have a very funny time from now on. To make some things clear for you...

1. You won't scam any people with my account. From now on, my account "Frost" is my start page in my browser. Whenever I see a new post of you, I gonna link people to this thread here.
2. I still hope you answer my German questions. I'd like to check your German grammar but probably I will have to laugh about a silly Google translation.
3. Celeborne got an email from me: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=965120 and I wonder if you can write him a mail too? But you amateur, you don't even have access to my mail address. All you got was a password from a leaked forum database. Hopefully Celeborne will join our conversation here. I told him some details via Email that you simply can't know. Uh, and by the way, you don't even have access to my wallet. Why am I the only person who could sign a message from an address that I used to trade with Celeborne?

You scammer will have a hard time here in this forum. I gonna stalk  you in this forum so that nobody will get scammed by you. This thread here will be up for a very long time until my issue is resolved. I can't stand it if people want to scam others with my account.

Frost...

- Is there are reason why you can't speak German anymore?

- Is there are reason why your login IP's are now different?

Maybe your account was hacked and sold out, There is nothing to worry about if you can proof that the account is yours.
Mail badbears your old email address of your account with the last bitcoin address you used on the account.
Maybe that will help

Waiting for yahoo to reply,
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2075036.msg21167848#msg21167848

Linked post updated!

Thank you for helping.

I also contacted the Forum admin Cyrus now, maybe he can look into my case.

I was in the same predicament as you a few months back. I believe my info was sold on the dark web after the bitcointalk database had been compromised about a year ago; probably the same as you.

https://www.cryptocoinsnews.com/hacked-bitcointalk-org-user-data-goes-up-for-sale-on-dark-web/

Good luck getting an admin to look at your case; its never going to happen. Best to take things into your own hands.

I recommend getting fellow members to blacklist the account as to render it useless for any nefarious purposes then try to negotiate with the terrorist.

In my case I paid a rather trivial extortion fee and was able to regain access to my account.

Good Luck.

Yeah, that is most likely the case here too. I didn't change the password for the "Frost" account after the leak. I am very sure this was just a kid surfing the dark web (lol) and found the leaked passwords and randomly tried accs where passwords weren't changed. Considering that account selling is allowed in this forum, it might also just be one of those kids who did spend a fortune on a stolen account. What ever happened, the account is now useless to the person who is using it, that's promised.

The "Frost" account is already rendered useless. I will qoute all of his posts and link the people to this thread here. Also this thread here will be updated until the case is resolved. And I am serious about this. I will update this thread until the "Frost" account is under my control or until the "Frost" account is banned. The account is pretty much useless now.

I won't give up until this is resolved and I will not pay money to a third world kid to get my account back. Instead I will destroy the reputation of the account.

Good man.
Does theymos live in the third world?

megashira1 priming you up to pay.
"I was in the same predicament as you a few months back."
How many accounts do you have megashira1? What happened?

As said, most likely it's a kiddy hiding behind my hero account. Who else is surfing the dark web? Then also the pretty broken English, I'd be surprised if the person is not living in the third world.

There is zero chance that I will pay to get my account back. Every single post he makes in the forum will now have a quote signature from me with a link to this thread.

Hey person behind the Frost account, you had the balls to tell us your opinion in this thread. Can you now please answer my German questions? Or did you lose the ability to write in German?

(you dick - sig)
if you give the account back, i may not need to dig further.

You lost the ability to write German, huh? What a lazy whore you are... too stupid to create your own account. What is your native language?

He can openly confess that he is stealing accounts but yet no admin support here.

And yet over 1000,000 "accounts" don't support you, only support for support (theymos is busy blah blah). Why is that?
Lol

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It was only when mods here pretended they did not like spam, and multiple accounts, that i looked into it.
I easily cracked the problem.
I published around 1000 farmed accounts, during which time i realised what was really happening.
These 1000(s) of accounts were all created by 1 or 2 people.
Even back then a year ago, i showed how around 50% of active users were "farmed"

I was ignored by admin, fobbed off by mods.
The farmed accounts were clear as day to find. Anyone looking would see them - theymos and admin.
They hated it, and me.

Then, having broken their system, they had to find something else - the "hacked" database.
Old accounts started coming alive/reactivating in their thousands.

I started another thread. I was ignored by theymos and admin.
I explained how easy it was to detect these accounts en masse, and the steps to achieve that detection anytime in the future..
They are still free roam the forum.

I had the intention to give the account back, but he did not respond to my PM. Now the account has been banned https://i.imgur.com/TRlXO50.png
FrostOriginal is a fool can not solve the problem in a safe way, you who start I will follow your stupid game

https://i.imgur.com/kz1th1R.png

First of all thank you that you had this intention. I would have been ok with your offer, of course. But please keep in mind that I have a delay in responding to both, forum threads and private messages because my account here is new.

I currently try to work off all messages... including a reply to the admin Cyrus. That was my problem here, I have a 360 seconds delay after each message.

Stranger... thanks anyway to tell us here what happened with my account. I am really happy that you wanted to give me my acc back. Hats up! Thanks!

Banned how long? Bans are overturnable.
Why are you banned?

This account could still be returned to FrostOriginal by admin.

So you're satisfied that your compromised Hero Member account is now disposed of?

Sorry Frost, I can not continue the conversation in PM, you are starting then I will follow your stupid game.
Actually we are both victims of the hacker, and I got that account from the buying account and I also get the account using money and it is not free and I had intended to give the account back, but you ignore my PM.

You who started then I will follow your stupid game.

I will to give the account back here with your password, so if anyone can recover your account, then he will be the person who will hold your account next, I will not be dealing with you and about anything like this.

Username: Frost
Password: gaevc@geavFBRUFB@GfgiuFGVJfyh375947952gvcjgsdJ@GVCJHVvhvvjhv4093@6y

It might be that I get help from Cyrus. I am currently in PM with this admin. I hate my posting delay, could clarify a lot of things faster if I would not have this delay due to my low rank acc here :D


Yeah, kinda. That is the first step. I wouldn't be able to sleep if someone else would use my acc to do (who knows) what kind of stuff.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I guess it shouldn't be a problem to get my acc back. I hope.

Anyway... I didn't believe that the person behind my acc would give in... I value this strongly. It's really cool. I am a bit sad that I did not spot his PM right away, and about this posting delay. Issue would have been solved thanks to this honest person. But thanks for posting imgur proof about the acc bann!

Thanks again for being honest! As said, I have a posting delay with the "FrostOriginal" acc due to the low rank. I would have replied to you.

Thank you for honesty at the end!

Now I do wait for a reply of the admin Cyrus to recover my acc under previous email.

Same here, my account aslo has been hacked but without the email address, how can someone hack the BCT account but not the email address?

That was my initial concern. Once you have gained accessed to any account here in bitcointalk, consider it yours since you can change the email and everything without having to confirm anything externally. If email change would require email verification in this forum that would be great.


That could be one factor. If you haven't changed your password for the last two years (and have a generic one too), there is a large possibility that the hacker gained access by referring to your password salt from 2015 that's still up somewhere online.


If admins did that to your case, that would be unfair since most of us here recovered our account by providing undeniable proofs that it is indeed us who owned the account.

I am still waiting for admin reply to get my account back. But I assume I will get help after the weekend. For now the account is locked.

Still waiting for admin reply.

same here, it feels like they dont want to resolve the matter.

Same thing happened to me but I have just signed a message to prove its my account but still no reply.

You can all see my signed message that I signed and sent to admin.

I would appreciate some help from older members if possible.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2124903.new#new

Thanks

Just to be sure, can the Mods see our passwords?

I am not sure about this.

Also, I am still waiting for mod reply. I still want my account back.

Still waiting for mod reply. It's public that my acc was stolen and sold, and I still can't get it back?

it seems mods dont give a f*** about that, just forget it, they wont even reply.

I won't forget it. Sorry. You will see this post updated for the next years until I die.

I've been waiting since July 2016.

I have my account stolen (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=849525)

The hacker changed the password and e-mail this month.
Has anyone been able to recover the account?
I haven't bitcoin adress in the account  :(

Looks like you have the same problem. As you can see with my forum post, I receive zero help even if the account owner proved that he bought my account from a hacker.

Anyway, I will push this up until I get my acc back.

I am truly sorry. He is posting some of the worst comments I think i've ever seen. I don't even know why I was so bored that I decided to read them but it was not worth it.

this problem is not yet solved? I am now expecting worsed for my cased tho I have some good proof and obvious. Hopefully admins are prioritizing hacked accounts

Hi!

My account was hacked as well. Any idea on how to recover it?
This is my original account: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=47566
The hacker changed the password and e-mail address and I didn't even received a notification...  :(

Happened in my case too. As it seems, you don't get confirmation mail in this forum when you want to change pw and e-mail, which makes it so much easier for hackers. So, all they have to do is looking into the leaked user database, for people that didn't change their PW's.

Still didn't get help. They just banned my old acc (I demanded this).... at least something. But they could just give me the account back since there proof enough in my thread that it was stolen from me.

If you have a proof can prove this is your account, I recommend you should to PM MOD "hilariousandco", he can helps you unblock your account if you can give him your proof. I think PM him will better than PM Cirus or theymost, because admin always busy than global mod.

Contact him at here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=164822

In hilariousandco profile....


And Cyrus absolutely doesn't respond to my PM's anymore. I still want my account back, it's been made public here that someone bought it from a hacker. I get zero help from the admins.

Yeah, Cyrus doesn't respond to me, either. Sometimes I see a user post a "hacked account" thread and Cyrus responds within a few days. But it seems he ignores most people. I wish he'd just fire off a response one time like "SFYL, not helping"....... is that so much to ask?

I am the latest victim of account hack.

My original "Dorky" account got hacked (or sold?) to someone from Turkey.

First, it doesn't make sense why someone needs to buy an account (with money) when he can register one for free.
Second, it doesn't make sense that this "new owner" doesn't know that the hacked account is supposed to be still active, and thus cannot make excuses that the bought-for account is inactive.

I have to give the "new owner" a negative trust to warn others.

Is Theymos part of the rothschild syndicate for being part of this entire elaborate scam?

Edit:
In case you wonder, I stumbled on this thread when I typed "bitcointalk account hacked" in Google search bar.

I still didn't get help. Looks like they just don't care about us.

I still need help!

Over two years later, the problem is still not solved. But I do still live!  ;D

Did you follow these instructions? ->  Recovering hacked/lost accounts (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5089777.0)
The relevant points are described and this is the only way it normally works.

The recovery of stolen accounts is actually a much quicker process now thanks to a new team that was introduced to handle such issues. All you need to do follow instructions in the link shared by @mole0815

I was also in the same boat as you and I didn't even have a staked BTC address, Here's what I did. (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5099552.msg49313923#msg49313923) You could find some information that could guide you when you write to the recoveries team. Just make sure you share with them any evidence that can help point to you being the original owner of the account

Good luck  :)

Oh, this sounds very good. I will go through the linked information. Thank you! I hope this will work out!

Wrote the account recovery team a mail. Let's see if I finally can get my account back  :) Thanks for the hints!

Good news OP, It looks like your account is on its way to being recovered according to seclog. I suppose they have already replied your message with further instructions. I hope everything works out in your favor  :)

https://talkimg.com/images/2023/05/14/blob594ba7f70e5fa00d.png

And that already 3 days after the correct instructions  (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2106900.msg56407403#msg56407403)were used.
So that shows again that it is not hopeless and makes sense to adhere to specifications :)

A big shoutout, handshake, and hugs to mole0815 and JeromeTash for the hint that recovery of stolen accounts is much easier today! It absolutely worked like a charm!  ;D

So, yes, it seems there is hope for people who want to get their accounts back. I must admit, the fact that there was clear evidence even in this thread here, and the fact that I documented everything, might have simplified the process a little. But what counts is that it's now finally possible.

Just wanted to drop a big thank you to you guys for the hints and links. Also big thank you to the account recovery team. There was a bit of information needed from my side, but it was a friendly back and forth. Very fast recovery process! Good job!  :)

It's nice to know that you were able to reclaim ownership of your account. I still do see an old a negative tag by @The Pharmacist. He's probably not yet aware that you have recovered your account. You can send him a PM with a link to this thread.

Right. Good idea. I did send out a PM. Let's see  :)

Looks legit to me, and I'm not going to create a stir by keeping a negative on Frost's profile.  Glad you got your account back, man.  Fuck those hackers.

Congrats that you got your Account back and recovered , welcome back !

I can see an untrusted feedback about that your account was hacked from eule and he is still active as i have seen , latest was on 25 February !
Guess he also will be remove his Feedback about your account if you send him a pm if you not have done this already.
Looking forward to see you maybe at the german board in the next time .

Thanks for removing it. I am excited that I got it back... honestly, even if I still commented here once in a while for the lulz, I never really expected to ever get the account back.

But then recently, some people here pointed me in the right direction and that it's easier to recover accounts today if there is evidence. It worked and I am kinda amazed. But then again, the evidence was so clear.

Still, the new account recovery team is such an improvement. I hope many more legit people will get their accounts back. I guess a lot of people aren't very emotionally invested in online accounts, but I think it's different with older crypto forum accounts due to the fact that we went through some really cool stuff in this crypto space, with many ups and downs. We all have kinda written history together :) Going through my old PM's and posts is like crypto archeology lol.  8) ;D


Thank you too! Yes, I dropped eule a PM at the same time. Was online a month ago or so. I gonna be patient. Will probably read my PM soon.

I am going to be active in the German and English parts of the forum for sure.  8)