After about 6 months on the sidelines, The bitcointalk accounts recovery team finally managed to help me recover my hacked account. I would really love to commend the team for the great job done
When my account got hacked sometime in July last year alongside a number of other victims. I really had no hope that I would ever be recovered since I did not have the much-needed evidence which is a PGP or Bitcoin signature to prove the ownership of my account. All I had was the Email which I used for opening up the account which had since then been changed during the hacker and the Ether address that S/he didn't bother changing knowing that I would be useless.
Seeing even Hero and Legendary accounts that were waiting to be unblocked for a dozen months in vain and yet they had provided the signed messages for proof of ownership even made me feel more hopeless about my mission to recover my account.
However, when I saw this newly modified topic by Theymos
Recovering hacked/lost accounts , I tried my luck.
I follow every instruction and some days later, my account was recovered.
Account recoveries are actually working and moving at a faster pace. Those who have signed Messages have a very high chance of getting their accounts recovered. All they have to do is to;
Email
recoveries...@bitcointalk.org, ideally from the account's email address. Include your username and a brief description of the details of how/when the account was hacked. A signature will likely be required
The proof of ownership message can be similar to 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: ...
For those with no staked Bitcoin address or no bitcoin address associated with your account, Do not lose hope;
1. The first step is to try and send an email to
recoveries...@bitcointalk.org, precisely describing when and how the account got hacked and not forgetting to include the account username. If possible you can also include screenshots showing emails you received when your password and email were changed.
2. After that, all you have to do is wait to be contacted by the team,
Do not try to act impatient by sending so many emailsYou will receive an email after some days with a unique link and please do exactly as told ( i received mine after roughly 12 days)
3. Once you are done with that successfully you will receive another email within hours confirming that your account has been queued for recovery
That's perfect. Thank you for the info.
The account has been queued for recovery using its old email address (this one). The recovery will be done automatically in 7 days.
If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to get back to us.
4. Within the stated period as in the last email, you will receive another message informing you about the completion of manual recovery, should be something like this;
The email address of your account has now been updated, and the account is unlocked. You should now use the forgotten password option to reset your password. If you receive any errors regarding activation, restart your browser. If your account had been compromised, make sure you use a DIFFERENT password this time.
Regards,
The Bitcoin Forum Team
5. Resetting your password appropriately should be the last step towards gaining back ownership of your account.
Security is very important, Never take it so lightly... I learned a very big lesson through this hack. My mistake was
using the same weak password for every website I would sign up for, Luckily my Gmail had 2FA, or else It would have been compromised too.
The hacker also tried to log into my Mega and Dropbox cloud storage accounts with the hope of probably gaining access to my private keys and any useful info, but again, luck was on my side... He was blocked from gaining access due to suspicious activity. All I received where email alerts.
I have since been so security conscious and paranoid.
I hope this helps someone out there who has no clue of how to recover his account or who his/her completely lost hope on recovering his/her account.
