The transactions you are seeing above wasn't transacted by my own. I still had my keys but someone else stole the funds.
What happened?
I was inactive here in hive for a good time and when I came back and I went to have a routine look at my wallet, I noticed these transactions that were done when I was away from my account.
Are you thinking how I logged into my account if my keys were stolen? Well, yeah I could login normally with my keys and the thief used the same keys and stole the money.
Let me make it clear.
Before going inactive, I transferred 22.695 HBD to my savings and then I went inactive. What I noticed from my wallet after I came back was that the thief transferred my 66.870 liquid hive to .
Then he or she, the thief actually, yeah the thief then started withdrawing my savings. Then the thief claimed 0.420 HBD as interest so he cancelled the savings withdrawal so the whole amount includes the interest can be withdrawn. And this time the thief started withdrawing the whole HBD (23.115 HBD) to
And the thief then started powering down my HP directly to and even collected total 33.394 hive from my HP and the rest of the HP was still in power down towards
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Then there was another id.
I had 0.692 HBD claimable reward that was claimed and has been sent to and that account took a delegate of 25.688 HP from me. I don't know why the delegation. Maybe the thief thought I'm not returning to my account or something else.
This is all that happened without me noticing. Then I came back to my account and got to know about these. I stopped the power down, undelegated the HP and changed the keys immediately using my old master key.
So, I lost total 100.264 HIVE and 23.807 HBD.
How it happened? Why WhatsApp of Meta Platforms?
I used to store all my keys in offline but to make it easy I saved my active key and posting key as text messages to my alternative number and mistakenly I saved my username as well although I unsent the message that had the username on it.
WhatsApp is the only place where I saved the keys online and as I can say, the moderators should have the option to see unsend messages. Besides this looks like the one and only way that I lost the keys. I didn't store my master key there so they couldn't change my password. Ring a bell now?
100.264 HIVE and 23.807 HBD is not a lot but I had to write a lot of posts to collect this money so it was my hard earned money for sure. He knows how it feels when something is lost or stolen, right? So, I know how it feels.
Only thing I could do to the thief was sending 0.001+0.001=0.002 hive to and
with a memo where I sent them notes 😅
I'm suggesting other hivers, especially new ones who are not sure about these things that