Hacked account. Sent a signed message with two staked addresses in Meta.

[dothebeats1]

My account was hacked laat July 13, forum time and after that, the email address was changed, so is the password. I tried contacting theymos and Cyrus and sent proofs that I indeed owned the account https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=306338 theymos replied, however he said that verification "fails". Idk what that means but I've tried every single signed message verifier and it verifies.

Here is the signed message from two addresses that I used about two years ago in the "Stake your Bitcoin Address herr" thread.

(This signed message is from electrum, so I'll just post what is the raw output in electrum.)

Message:

Hi theymos, this is dothebeats from bitcointalk. My account was hacked and I wanted to send you some proof that it is really me who owns the said account.

Address:

1A26NMs1Ta5pSCDJ2vVybciMtyeZM1UEvK

Signature:

HxVnOy7Ka+fED1ymow6reJJFsYEI2QA396xf3pyyrhl9UddNEdkp61+LDXSBm2E2zSuICoyecVtJlGpKAdCNzaM=


^ That above is the first message. Verify it all you want. It will be verified. Also, doing a quick search in google will lead you to a topic in Meta, stake your bitcoin address here

This is the thread that I posted that address and staked it too.

My new address: 1A26NMs1Ta5pSCDJ2vVybciMtyeZM1UEvK

Message: I am the new owner of this account as the previous owner sold it to me outside this forum. Will this work?

(actually, ignore the message. My girl went nuts earlier so she typed that.)

Signature: ICNK5m2r5UoUAddoH9nwb8GyNK275evTDK0gcTXJWi6PUN9wn7I70K4//QT8cbwbVSKhFYY+SgRJD4iG1CoOzpc=

This is the other message that I sent to both Cyrus and theymos.

Message:

Additional verification that it is indeed I.

Address:

1HNFHfyZ2a1jYju6wJ6mpeae7mVo5qwVeJ

Signature:

HzxwBZwEexEbpbfNHVwj/VOrcOL806F9ufveFv4k8xMYbllWlNc0t8TQNatY83PzuC0UFIHf3LUz2wl+IfewXdo=

^ second sign message. Raw output from electrum. Verify all you want, it will turn out correct. The address I used is from April 2015 in the Stake your Bitcoin address thread, which can be found below:

I'm not familiar on doing that in Electrum wallet, or can I just add the date that I've done the signing of the message? Or should I do another one?

EDIT: I've just added another code with the date of when I signed this message. Thanks for your help, Muhammed Zakir.

Add that additional message you wrote in the message you signed and sign again with electrum.

For simplicity, sign this:

Code:

Date: 10/04/2015, Thursday. I, dothebeats, own this address.

Code:

Date: 10/04/2015, Thursday. I, dothebeats, own this address.

Code:

Address:1HNFHfyZ2a1jYju6wJ6mpeae7mVo5qwVeJ 

Code:

Signature: IKy446JRAe/o5NTuUrIcOpUmJptTUnRDSUy3OWjrx2ZAVLiOfr5sLxH0dOJ/LERlcKOczkuXozN89vAAgxNisOU=

EDIT: Thanks a bunch, Muhammed Zakir.  

Sorry for the long post. I really wanted to get my account back. Already have missed trades without that account and luckily, the hacker hadn't been online yet to compromise sensitive business I have in this forum.

If those weren't enough verification then I don't know what else will. As stated by the thread for recovering accounts, posted bitcoin address anywhere in this forum plus a signed message would be sufficient to recover the account. I hope theymos and Cyrus read this since I made this post while running late to work.

EDIT: Please ignore the formatting or the extra spaces in the signed message when verifying it. I did that for you guys to read what I sent.

EDIT 2: Last messaged I received in that account that was forwarded to my email: http://i68.tinypic.com/14ukkef.png

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[dillpicklechips]

Verified the 2 signed messages.

If I point you to this thread, you can't prove ownership properly, and then I ignore your future PMs, this means that I'm not going to recover your account. Create a new one.

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

Have you messaged them with the recommended template or format like this:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
My account <account> has been hacked/lost. Please reset the email to <email>. The current date is <date>.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
<insert address here>
<insert signature here>
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is the unedited post where I posted that address: ...
OR
I sent that address to someone in a PM with PM ID#...

I don't know if there's relevance in doing this since I think they understand what you said even if it is formatted in different way. Just hope that theymos or Cyrus will see your post. After theymos said "verification fails", I don't know if he will ignore your future PMs so maybe you will count on Cyrus from now on.

So had you sent them a message again? If so wait a little bit since there are other PMs which mostly are hacked account cases also.

[dothebeats1]

Verified the 2 signed messages.

If I point you to this thread, you can't prove ownership properly, and then I ignore your future PMs, this means that I'm not going to recover your account. Create a new one.

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

Have you messaged them with the recommended template or format like this:

-----BEGIN BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----
My account <account> has been hacked/lost. Please reset the email to <email>. The current date is <date>.
-----BEGIN SIGNATURE-----
<insert address here>
<insert signature here>
-----END BITCOIN SIGNED MESSAGE-----

Here is the unedited post where I posted that address: ...
OR
I sent that address to someone in a PM with PM ID#...

I don't know if there's relevance in doing this since I think they understand what you said even if it is formatted in different way. Just hope that theymos or Cyrus will see your post. After theymos said "verification fails", I don't know if he will ignore your future PMs so maybe you will count on Cyrus from now on.

So had you sent them a message again? If so wait a little bit since there are other PMs which mostly are hacked account cases also.

On the first message I sent to theymos, I now know why the verification failed: he might have included the date on the said signed message therefore voiding the signature. In this post I haven't included the date, only the raw output of the message from Electrum. I hope he reads this one still. And I have sent Cyrus a PM as well but I think he's quite engaged as of now. If this ia not enough to verify my claims then idk what needs to be done next.

Anyone else care to verify the messages I made? Please help me get my account back. Also wondering if 2FA can be enabled in SMF-powered forums.

[dillpicklechips]

On the first message I sent to theymos, I now know why the verification failed: he might have included the date on the said signed message therefore voiding the signature. In this post I haven't included the date, only the raw output of the message from Electrum. I hope he reads this one still. And I have sent Cyrus a PM as well but I think he's quite engaged as of now. If this ia not enough to verify my claims then idk what needs to be done next.

Anyone else care to verify the messages I made? Please help me get my account back. Also wondering if 2FA can be enabled in SMF-powered forums.

Make sure that you use the recommended format and the information that is necessary are filled out so you will not have any problem like what you mention. Good luck!

Anyone else care to verify the messages I made? Please help me get my account back.

Only admins can recover accounts so it doesn't matter how many verifies it.

[dothebeats1]

On the first message I sent to theymos, I now know why the verification failed: he might have included the date on the said signed message therefore voiding the signature. In this post I haven't included the date, only the raw output of the message from Electrum. I hope he reads this one still. And I have sent Cyrus a PM as well but I think he's quite engaged as of now. If this ia not enough to verify my claims then idk what needs to be done next.

Anyone else care to verify the messages I made? Please help me get my account back. Also wondering if 2FA can be enabled in SMF-powered forums.

Make sure that you use the recommended format and the information that is necessary are filled out so you will not have any problem like what you mention. Good luck!

Anyone else care to verify the messages I made? Please help me get my account back.

Only admins can recover accounts so it doesn't matter how many verifies it.

I know that, but that is to help me get this post some relevance and attention so that hopefully they lend some time to look at it knowing that both admins are busy persons. Anyway, thanks for the reply. Won't be sending them any PMs until they reply. Haven't messaged them in that format but I think I would need to sign a new message if it needs be.

[dothebeats1]

Bump. Hope one of the admins verify my claims and help me out.

[lionheart78]

Verified the two signed messages



This is in response to this request https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2023966.msg20164415#msg20164415

[dothebeats]

Account successfully retrieved. Thanks for everyone who helped me out in recovering my account. Mods can now lock this thread since I can't seem to find the lock thread option on the account I used to post this.

[hilariousandco]

Bottom left,  but I locked it.