Yesterday some devil hacked my account and transferred my earnings to their account
I am using steemit for 12 days now. I had bought my reputation 38.8 from 25 and was very much hopeful about steemit. Yesterday I started my day with a good news. I was selected as a winner of 150 SBD GIVEAWAY CHALLENGE , Which was announced by
. I felt very grateful to steemit for what was going on with.
But in the evening, my account was hacked by a phishing site and I lost my account’s control. After some times, I realized that my account is hacked, then I recovered my account by using my password. But in the meantime, they had stolen all of my earnings. I was feeling very much disappointed, I felt like crying.
Footprint of my account’s hack
• Gave a Phishing site url
• Asked to login
• Took Password
• Transferred Earnings
Someone commented on my post, and give me a url of his post. He asked me for feedback on his post
I followed the link, which took me on a post. When i attempted to comment on that post and it asked me to login
As a fool, I put my credential on that site that looked like steemit. The url of that site was almost same as steemit which I noticed later (i am not sharing the url of the site)
After punting my Credential. It transferred my earnings to their account
This hacker hacked many accounts and transferred money to their account. Still now, it is happening with other steemit members. I fell very sorry about them, I am realizing that how much hard work it takes to make the money.
I am asking to all steemit members:
• Do not share your password or any key to any third party websites.
• Be aware when you use your action key or main password (recheck the url on browser very carefully)
• Phishing sites urls are almost some as original one, if you click on any link given by anyone which leads to steemit (or something looks like it), please check the url on the address box, once you’re there. And never put your keys if asked. Steemit will never ask you for keys unless you’re transferring your funds or changing any setting.
At this time, I have nothing to do without hoping that “Everything will be fine again”. I don’t want anyone to suffer what I’ve suffered. I beg all my fellow steemians to learn from my mistakes. I’m a positive and optimistic person, and will recover from this. Please be careful everyone.
[ Thanks to all Steemit Spam Fighters (
