My Steemit account was stolen and recovered

Hi Steemians

My account was stolen for some hours and now I am back. I am sorry if you got flagged or downvoted from my side.

After publishing my post, I got the first comment that says "I notice that your post was copied by < felixjaspeer > ". I was unaware of whats happening and I opened the link in the comment. I got a "Returning User Login Screen" and logged in. That was my biggest mistake and I did that in hurry without checking the address. After some seconds I lost control of my account and realized what I had done to allow this to happen :( My first mistake was that I didnt notice to where I was redirected and the second mistake was that I signed in using my main password.

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I spent hours on Discord and Steemit.chat trying to figure out a way to recover my account. Hive account@steemcleaners were so helpful and flagged the Hackers account and all other related accounts. Unfortunately I noticed that he hacked many accounts and used them to downvote users and upvote his accounts. Now I am trying to fix everything and this will take hours.

He used the accounts of many innocent users to repeatedly post his phishing link and thats what you should be aware of. He is using accounts with high reputation after stealing their money.

I recovered my account by going to the steemit menu and clicking on stolen accounts recovery. I put in my last working password and my email address. Then was directed to wait for Steemit email with the recovery link.

I waited for some hours and finally I got it. I am really happy that it took just some hours. I was afraid that it will take days or weeks. I was really sad to see someone hacking steemit accounts and use them to downvote others. But I am really happy to find many people who tried to support me on Steemit.chat and discord.

Now be careful! The main users involved are these:

Hive account@alandefong commented on my post and deleted the comment immediately after changing my password.

The money in my wallet got transferred to Hive account@angela-noel and as you see they already hacked many accounts and cashed money out.

Now I will be very careful with every step I do, because it is the worst feeling to see people abusing your account while you are helpless. I will follow the pattern and report all accounts involved in stealing Steemit accounts.
And my dear friends I wont upvote your posts at least for 24 hours until I gain some voting power :(