■■■My 2013 legendary account was hacked :( help me to find how and to recover it

[hilariousandco]

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

[cellard]

Verified message myself, all seems ok.

It just seems like another case of being stuck in limbo, even after providing all the evidence required by the mods. Very sad.

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

It's insane isn't it? You spend years of your life here, making connections, business and so on, getting some sort of reputation, then all of a sudden your account gets hacked and suddenly you have a bunch of PMs and unfinished deals with people which you cannot complete because you cannot access your account.

Then you go and check what's needed to get it back, comply with all the requirements and all you get is an endless waiting queue.

It's just scary to think it can happen to any of us. This thread shows not even Legendary members are safe. Im just hoping theymos eventually spends some serious time cleaning the backlog of accounts that have delivered the required proof and have been waiting for months. It's just not fair.

[Realerre]

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

Why am I wasting my time? I have not the intention to give up.
It's summer now, but in September, when admins should be working "for sure", I think I will start a spam campaign (I could even pay for that) or something "heavy" to be noticed.

It's very sad, I just hoped that some "big" moderator, like you, could help me to get in contact with admins... I was even tempted to send you a PM asking for that because you were very nice at the start of this thread, why are you now suggesting to surrender? I have signed message and I complied to the requested format, I think my case don't need any "investigation" at all.

Verified message myself, all seems ok.

It just seems like another case of being stuck in limbo, even after providing all the evidence required by the mods. Very sad.

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

It's insane isn't it? You spend years of your life here, making connections, business and so on, getting some sort of reputation, then all of a sudden your account gets hacked and suddenly you have a bunch of PMs and unfinished deals with people which you cannot complete because you cannot access your account.

Then you go and check what's needed to get it back, comply with all the requirements and all you get is an endless waiting queue.

It's just scary to think it can happen to any of us. This thread shows not even Legendary members are safe. Im just hoping theymos eventually spends some serious time cleaning the backlog of accounts that have delivered the required proof and have been waiting for months. It's just not fair.

Thank you for your support. It's really disturbing me to write here without my real account, after many years it's like wearing a wrong skin. I was very patient, but three and an half months seems enough to get a response (i even got a quick response from Cyrus, but nothing since then...)

[tronghoa]

Reading from the first page till here. I think you will need more time till you could received answer from admin. Good luck.

[Realerre]

Reading from the first page till here. I think you will need more time till you could received answer from admin. Good luck.

Thank you.


Up!

[peter0425]

Verified message myself, all seems ok.

It just seems like another case of being stuck in limbo, even after providing all the evidence required by the mods. Very sad.

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

It's insane isn't it? You spend years of your life here, making connections, business and so on, getting some sort of reputation, then all of a sudden your account gets hacked and suddenly you have a bunch of PMs and unfinished deals with people which you cannot complete because you cannot access your account.

Then you go and check what's needed to get it back, comply with all the requirements and all you get is an endless waiting queue.

It's just scary to think it can happen to any of us. This thread shows not even Legendary members are safe. Im just hoping theymos eventually spends some serious time cleaning the backlog of accounts that have delivered the required proof and have been waiting for months. It's just not fair.

It already did happened to me. I really don't know how the hacker was able to get hold of my account. Fortunately though, I was able to get it back and outsmart the person who took my account. I can feel the pain and the anguished that the OP is going through with every coming weeks without any reply. And if you will noticed, the hackers are already abusing your merit so I suggest that DT members to look at those 4 accounts receiving the OP's merit after the hacked.

[Realerre]

Verified message myself, all seems ok.

It just seems like another case of being stuck in limbo, even after providing all the evidence required by the mods. Very sad.

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

It's insane isn't it? You spend years of your life here, making connections, business and so on, getting some sort of reputation, then all of a sudden your account gets hacked and suddenly you have a bunch of PMs and unfinished deals with people which you cannot complete because you cannot access your account.

Then you go and check what's needed to get it back, comply with all the requirements and all you get is an endless waiting queue.

It's just scary to think it can happen to any of us. This thread shows not even Legendary members are safe. Im just hoping theymos eventually spends some serious time cleaning the backlog of accounts that have delivered the required proof and have been waiting for months. It's just not fair.

It already did happened to me. I really don't know how the hacker was able to get hold of my account. Fortunately though, I was able to get it back and outsmart the person who took my account. I can feel the pain and the anguished that the OP is going through with every coming weeks without any reply. And if you will noticed, the hackers are already abusing your merit so I suggest that DT members to look at those 4 accounts receiving the OP's merit after the hacked.

I think that my account should be locked, but it's still not pleasant at all.

Thank you everybody for your support, and again....UP!!!

[hilariousetc]

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

Why am I wasting my time? I have not the intention to give up.

Because you are wasting your time until things change around here. I'm just being honest. I didn't say you should give up but if the admins aren't restoring accounts at all right now (which they aren't) then that's like you screaming away to yourself in a locked room where nobody can hear you.

It's very sad, I just hoped that some "big" moderator, like you, could help me to get in contact with admins... I was even tempted to send you a PM asking for that because you were very nice at the start of this thread, why are you now suggesting to surrender?

I'm powerless here. I've messaged them multiple times about your case and many others:



Either two things happen when I message them about these cases. I get no response at all or cyrus will say something along the lines of "I think I looked into this but something didn't add up" which I'm almost certain is his go-to excuse for not looking into it. I mean, that certainly sounds better than "I couldn't be bothered investigating it".

I think my case don't need any "investigation" at all.

Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't but I doubt it was even looked into. Most cases are likely open and shut or require minimal investigation but they're seemingly not done at all. Good luck on getting your account back and all, but unless they suddenly start looking into all the cases or theymos finally implements the automatic system for recovering them then realistically it's just not going to happen anytime soon. I'm just being realistic.

I think that my account should be locked, but it's still not pleasant at all.

Thank you everybody for your support, and again....UP!!!

It is locked. Can you still log into it? I'm guessing not though since it was hacked.

[Realerre]

People say it usually takes 6 months to a year, just hang in there. It will be recovered soon hopefully.

No. It's somewhere between months to never. Realerre and everyone else are unfortunately just wasting their time right now.

Why am I wasting my time? I have not the intention to give up.

Because you are wasting your time until things change around here. I'm just being honest. I didn't say you should give up but if the admins aren't restoring accounts at all right now (which they aren't) then that's like you screaming away to yourself in a locked room where nobody can hear you.

It's very sad, I just hoped that some "big" moderator, like you, could help me to get in contact with admins... I was even tempted to send you a PM asking for that because you were very nice at the start of this thread, why are you now suggesting to surrender?

I'm powerless here. I've messaged them multiple times about your case and many others:



Either two things happen when I message them about these cases. I get no response at all or cyrus will say something along the lines of "I think I looked into this but something didn't add up" which I'm almost certain is his go-to excuse for not looking into it. I mean, that certainly sounds better than "I couldn't be bothered investigating it".

I think my case don't need any "investigation" at all.

Maybe it does or maybe it doesn't but I doubt it was even looked into. Most cases are likely open and shut or require minimal investigation but they're seemingly not done at all. Good luck on getting your account back and all, but unless they suddenly start looking into all the cases or theymos finally implements the automatic system for recovering them then realistically it's just not going to happen anytime soon. I'm just being realistic.

I think that my account should be locked, but it's still not pleasant at all.

Thank you everybody for your support, and again....UP!!!

It is locked. Can you still log into it? I'm guessing not though since it was hacked.

I have no access to it, but it's locked for the hacker. I even tried to contact him via the mail he used for reset, but probably it was a drop-out address.

The most frustrating thing is that Cyrus initially responded, and he asked if I was still in control of the original mail, and I answered "yes"... I answered like 10 times, but no contact till then.

I am even fearing theymos and Cyrus are somehow filtering my messages, although I did never spam too much (I even tried subjects like "important read me", but only once)

[hilariousetc]

I am even fearing theymos and Cyrus are somehow filtering my messages,

I doubt it. I'm not sure there's a way to block your messages without you knowing so (if they blocked you it would say as such). They're either just purposely not opening anything they see to do with account recoveries or are just ignoring them and not looking into verifying them at all. Messages can also get buried very fast due to multiple users messaging moderators and as admins they probably receive the most mail of all staff, but they can't all be getting buried because I haven't seen an account publicly restored in many many months nor do other people seem to be getting a response at all about it. theymos has stated he doesn't have time to look into them because he's busy coding the forum but I haven't heard a response from Cyrus. He also either doesn't have the time or just can't be bothered. Unless more admins are added or theymos codes the automatic recovery tool and implements that then I can't see accounts getting recovered anytime soon, sadly.

[Realerre]

I am even fearing theymos and Cyrus are somehow filtering my messages,

I doubt it. I'm not sure there's a way to block your messages without you knowing so (if they blocked you it would say as such). They're either just purposely not opening anything they see to do with account recoveries or are just ignoring them and not looking into verifying them at all. Messages can also get buried very fast due to multiple users messaging moderators and as admins they probably receive the most mail of all staff, but they can't all be getting buried because I haven't seen an account publicly restored in many many months nor do other people seem to be getting a response at all about it. theymos has stated he doesn't have time to look into them because he's busy coding the forum but I haven't heard a response from Cyrus. He also either doesn't have the time or just can't be bothered. Unless more admins are added or theymos codes the automatic recovery tool and implements that then I can't see accounts getting recovered anytime soon, sadly.

So, i need to make noise.
What kind of noise would have the best probability to be noted by admins, in your opinion?


EDIT: shame on me, I did this:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=4927603.msg44579189#msg44579189

[stolenthey4kman]

I was just fishing on the dock when I noticed my old johnboat sinking. I figured I'd go bailing out water, 'cause I might want to drop my line in the middle of the lake later. And what do I see but a guy with a pail dutifully scooping out water from his yacht! He's been marking the days in paint on the side of the quarters. Sisyphus, one must consider you happy.

My account got hacked. I haven't logged into these forums in years.

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

SMF 1.1 has been discontinued since March.

Sorry about your yacht. And my johnboat. I guess in order to have a boat in these waters, it's also your responsibility to have a time machine to stop thieves of tomorrow.

[Realerre]

I was just fishing on the dock when I noticed my old johnboat sinking. I figured I'd go bailing out water, 'cause I might want to drop my line in the middle of the lake later. And what do I see but a guy with a pail dutifully scooping out water from his yacht! He's been marking the days in paint on the side of the quarters. Sisyphus, one must consider you happy.

My account got hacked. I haven't logged into these forums in years.



SMF 1.1 has been discontinued since March.

Sorry about your yacht. And my johnboat. I guess in order to have a boat in these waters, it's also your responsibility to have a time machine to stop thieves of tomorrow.

Do you think that simplemachine discontinuing upgrades have something to do with the hack? I don't see massive hacks here...

Also, UP!

[Realerre]

Up and asking for community's help

[Yuliya2404]

Some rules to avoid the hack

-Download untrusted wallets in a virtual machine
-Use a virgin email to the forum account
-Save the website on bookmarks
-Always check

Can "Secret question" function somehow prevent hacking? I wonder, if the hacker picked up the password then why account owner didn't get mail that someone entered his account from another IP. Protection of accounts is not at the highest level

[Realerre]

Someone deleted an ass image that I posted to up this thread, and this is very sad...why delete asses? Send a message to theymos addressing the issue instead

[Buttermellow]

I really hate those people who are good for nothing hacking accounts like this. At first i only thought that a savage is only happening in the real world or outside of the forum but seeing this threads concludes that even here in the forum there are really this kind of people who are hacking BCT accounts and a not just ordinary account because it was a legendary rank.

[Realerre]

Why did a moderator deleted all my "up" posts?

Help me to retrieve my account instead!

[cryptohunter]

Why did a moderator deleted all my "up" posts?

Help me to retrieve my account instead!

Lauda maybe can help you. I can't believe more effort is not give to help legends who have put a lot of effort into this forum.

Especially if you have signed a message proving you are the original owner.

Who can you not get your account back ?

were you a frequent poster and contributor to this forum?

[Realerre]

Why did a moderator deleted all my "up" posts?

Help me to retrieve my account instead!

Lauda maybe can help you. I can't believe more effort is not give to help legends who have put a lot of effort into this forum.

Especially if you have signed a message proving you are the original owner.

Who can you not get your account back ?

were you a frequent poster and contributor to this forum?

I made thousands of posts, some of them were not shitposting.
Now, I feel bad when I write on this forum and i rarely post, my account was like my identity here.
If someone can help me, please do so.
As far as I understood only theymos and Cyrus can help me, but if some hi-rank moderator can draw their attention on this please do so, many months passed now