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Theymos,

I sent you a PM last night, but just in case...

My original account - Bitcoin_Mafia - appears to have been hacked, or at the very least locked. I can't log in with
what I know are the correct username and password. Also, when I go to reset the password, the email that contains
the reset password link never arrives. I check my junk mail and my spam folder, and nothing. I know I can receive
system messages from the forum b/c I still have notification emails from when other users have replied to PMs in the
past under my Bitcoin_Mafia account.

Please help!

The BTC address associated with this account is the same one associated with my hacked account.

Thanks in advance!

Cheers,

Cynthia

Did you sign a message to prove this and follow all the instructions here: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=497545.0 ?

I don't know if I can. The address is a generated one from Cryptsy.

Then you're probably screwed. Did you not send any payments using another address associated with the account?

I can vouch for Bitcoin_Mafia.

That's her real account and someone got into it.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=405321.0

No, that's the only BTC address I have associated with that account. I've still got system messages that were
sent to the email address associated w/ that account as well. Those, coupled with the fact that I have the same
BTC address associated with this account as with the hacked one, should - I hope - be enough to prove that
Bitcoin_Mafia is, indeed, my account.

Keeping fingers crossed!

Cynthia

I know 2 who lost theire account and BitcoinMafia is one of them.

Sry to see this happen to you.
Hope it will get restored back soon.

-M

that's wishful thinking. you either have a GPG/bitcoin signature or you don't. theymos already stated if you don't have either, he's not going to bother with alternative methods because it will take too much time. just don't get your hopes up.

There's another option that would take a few minutes @ most. I already offered to make send a token
BTC payment from that address to one specified by him to prove the address is mine, but haven't heard
anything yet.

We'll see, I suppose...

But it isnt' from another address. It is from the same address associated w/ the original account.

You usually can't send from a specific address, especially if the address belongs to an exchange. The only way to do that is by using coin control (in bitcoin core), or with the raw transaction API.

I think this could be a viable solution. Maybe a very small donation to your forum donation address (https://bitcointalk.org/donate.html)?
Curious if theymos will agree to this.

EDIT: grue, you're right. Silly me, I must be tired.

Unfortunately, no response. I don't know if Theymos is sick, working, out of town, on vacation, on the moon, inundated
with hacked account issues, or just doesn't want to reply. In any case, I finally had no choice but to create a new acct.

I can't even imagine the amount of PMs theymos must get from users about having their accounts hacked or asking why they've been banned / to unban them etc.

Theymos can simply hire some sexy assistants to do the job. With the forum weekly income and millions in reserved I think there could be no problem.

There is a certain forum you must fill out and sign you BTC address and send a PM to him. Then you can only wait.

I already sent my BTC address do him. Couldn't sign it b/c the one I was using was generated @ Cryptsy.

For a personal signature, why would you use Cryptsy? I guess there's no point in telling you now, as you've already learned after it's too late.

Good luck, hope you get your account back. Don't expect Theymos to do anything though. It might be a huge deal to you, but your account is only one of tens of thousands, and these are little nuances to him.

I resigned myself to that fact last week and decided to just bite the bullet and start a new account. A pain in the ass
to be sure, but another valuable lesson learned.

Im just wondering if putting a password question in the account will protect it as well as you will know the answer to the question and hacker wont? 

There are any # of additional measures that can be taken - 2FA, secret question, secret pin, etc... Any of which would be fairly
easy to implement.

As it is a Bitcoin forum, binding it with a bitcoin address for recovery is the best option and that is implemented. Just people need to be aware of it or at the time of registration there should be an exclusive mention to it. There are lot of profiles on this forum which is not associated with any address. It is difficult to recover them if they face a hack.

This feature must have been implemented recently. Back when I registered in 2011, we did not have this option. People would put address in their sig, but that was more for begging for donations.

I had a BTC address bound to the previous account. Still no joy from on high. No big deal now. At this point it would
be an even bigger pain in the ass if the account got restored to me.

If u posted an address from your account, then why dont u show theymos that u can send Tx out of it. Just ask him to provide an address and send him a negligible amount to show your ownership. Then what stops u from recovering your account ?

I already offered. He never replied to me. Not publicly and not privately.

You could also PM Staff and Global Mod., I'm sure they would give you a hand for this.

No, we can't help.

It's no big deal at this point. I've got the new account and people are getting used to seeing
me use it. It's all good :)

Sorry. I thought you can.

Thanks for pointing out.

OP, then try contacting Theymos.

Been there, done that. No reply. It's really a non-issue at this point though. But thank you for
offering suggestions :)

You welcome, I wanted to help you to the max. but maybe Theymos is that busy.

You can also revise what you did wrong to not get this account locked as your old one did.

Wish you the best of luck with your new account.

It seems to me that theymos is really busy all the time.
Maybe he should give more power to global mods, or maybe promote one or two of them to admin to share the workload...

This forum is build on hierarchy.