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     2 years ago  

    I worded that poorly. There was no news, only my account got compromised it seems lol

    Saw a few posts on Reddit from people that had a similar experience but they are 5-6 months old.

    I just can't wrap my head around this one. I even only had the necessary keys imported on Keychain. Everything else was either on paper or on a USB stick.

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     2 years ago  

    Hmm, this sounds super dodgy.

    Keep us up to date with any conclusion.

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     2 years ago  

    I's very unfortunate you are happening thru this, I'm sorry about that.

    After reviewing your info is hard to say what happened, the usual way is to share the keys in some way. phishing links, fake splinterlands sites, third-party bots, and stuff like that. A malware named Luca Stealer was released recently and I have seen some close friends affected by it too.

    I see a big DEC withdrawal was made from your account to the BSC chain and unfortunately we can't take back any transaction due to the blockchain nature, all transfers are definitive.

    Since your account is too old and it was created via steem we can't help you to recover your keys because Steem is your recovery account, you must reach out to steem support to see if they can (hopefully) help you with that.

    Please feel free to write us again if needed

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    ElClements
    Splinterlands Support Agent

    I already gave up on it. It's a very old account that was gifted to me by the guy that introduced me to Hive and Steemit at the time. It could be anything at this point but it's interesting to me that someone went through all that trouble just to sell $200 worth of cards for like $80 or something like that since most of the cards don't have too much liquidity.

    The scary part is that the keys were changed... Becoming more paranoid with every passing day lol

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       2 years ago  

      Ah yikes...

      If the account was gifted to you, is it possible that the person you received it from had their email or drive where the keys were stored, compromised?

      Surely you'd know by now if there was a keylogger or something on your computer and your personal account was also at risk.

      Might be worth making sure your tokens are powered up and your 'recovery account' is setup properly so if someone gets hold of this account and changes your keys, you can get it back.

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       2 years ago  

      If the account was gifted to you, is it possible that the person you received it from had their email or drive where the keys were stored, compromised?

      We are both 99% sure it's not a compromise on his side since he got rid of the keys a long time ago. But there is a possibility that the exploit was done via email and that's the only logical solution since this account is still intact.

      Last thing that comes to mind is that it could also be some Steemit-related exploit or something since the original keys were never changed. Whatever it is, I'm already over it. Just spooked out a bit since I lost two wallets in a span of a month.

      The PC I use for crypto has absolutely nothing on it except Chrome, Hearthstone and a paid version of Avast that should allegedly keep me safe from malware if I do click on something I shouldn't have.

      I stored the keys to this account safely though, or so I think. Hopefully this hacking saga ends here. My recovery account is set on leo.voter for some reason, that was probably a default option. I'll maybe need to change that.

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