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My account has been hacked this morning
The account is : Joca97

you can see that the email and password has been change

i have contacted the 3 moderators(theymos,cyrus and hilariousandco) hope they can assist me as fast as possible
i can give my previous data and email and some intel that was long ago on my account

please assist me as fast as possible

regards Joca

You both need to follow this:

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0

So all i need to do is sign a message from 1 of my previous address that i used and send it to you ?

Yeah my legendary account was hacked this morning as well. I've had many bitcoin addresses and I don't think I have one associated with that account.

I had an email address in the account but I guess you only need the account password to change that. Looks like the hacker got my 4 year old account. Shame.. It was a recent ICO I signed up to.. So many scammers out there is sad.

So did you retrive your account? Is there any way?

No. To an admin. Only they can reset passwords or change emails.

No not that I can think of. I think my account is gone. I thought I used a password that I hadn't used elsewhere .. wtf..

What happens if i never signed a message before ? Can i just sign it now from one of the addresses i used?

As long as there's an address connected to that account such as bitcoin address you posted, have transaction  from where you can sign a message then you can hopefully recover your account.

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Recovering accounts mostly take months. Anyway, lemme check your account to see addresses that is connected to it.

please see what you can do i really need the account
The one of the address as was one starting with 1K

Just try to input your bitcointalk UID on bctaccountpricer site and see all the addresses connected to your account and sign a message on atleast one of those.

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I can check this myself but I'm having trouble checking it due to slow internet connection.

Can you post the sign message you sent so DT can tagged your account for the mean time so that it won't do any bad things to others such as scamming and stuffs.
You can try and check on this thread about signing a message.  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=990345.0

Where should i post the message?

Still waiting ...
this process is too slow,my account can be in big danger

It seems that accounts are easy to steal.

Maybe they can crack the captcha and then steal accounts.

Admins please do something, add more security.

I wait too

If you have posting your signing message on here as well, and tell any of DT members to tag your account, your account could be "safe". At least until your account back.

It's not that it's easy to steal. I myself have become a victim of these hacks and the reason why is I haven't changed my password since 2015 which is the time when the password hashes were leaked somewhere in the deep web.

If OP hasn't changed his password from 2015, then most likely someone cracked your password from the publicly-available (?) password hashes in the deep and gained access because of that. Also, just a heads up OP, theymos and Cyrus won't reply ASAP since both of them are still busy on the Epochtalk forum.

Ok but this is annoying, change password how often monthly?

everyday they steal accounts.

If they improve security it will never happen again.

2fa or approve login by email will be better.

How long you think we have to wait?

Still waiting !!

Anyone doing anything with this to help me

i have showed the proof,why no body wants to assist me ?!

Please wait patiently, it's not the only thing the admins are looking into... Thank you...

Post the signed message here so DT members to tag the account as hacked.

By this you will protect your betting followers from extortion/begging for money or following bad tips, etc. For example, I'm following your tips regularly :)

Thanks for following me everyday :) trying to post still while the account is hacked
As soon as i see that the hacker logged into my account i will post it

I will wait,there is nothing else i can do,i have sended the message i know they have a lot of work but this would help me extremly

A big shoutout to all the admins for returning me my account,thank you again,this thread can be closed ! :)