I am ultra careful about passwords and mix things up a lot. But very recently my Hotmail account got hacked which has never happened before. Once I regained access through the 2 step verification I obviously changed my password immediately.

However, the hackers cleverly set up a redirect so that every single email I received from anyone a copy would then automatically be forwarded to the address they had set up for the redirection of all incoming emails. It was in the hope they could scam one of the people sending me emails, by pretending to be me.

But as they had made an error with the destination email address for the redirect I was getting bounce backs to my junk mail folder of a copy of every email anyone was sending to me. This was the only thing that alerted me to the fact the hackers had set up, or rather attempted to set up, the forwarding email address. I then obviously disabled the redirect.

So even though I'm ultra careful we know the internet is not 100% secure and never will be. People can still get in to your various accounts and this is troubling given the huge volume of our personal data that is now stored online. A lot of the hack work is obviously bots at work. Check your account sign in activity for your email provider and you will see multiple daily attempts at logins, which you haven't performed.

Fortunately for me there was no real damage, well that I'm aware of. For you I can see the hassle you were caused and that must have been a bitch. Although fortunately you didn't lose any money we all know that reputation is everything in the crypto space and those hackers really caused some harm to your reputation with their hack.

I'm glad you managed to eventually sort shit out but as you and I have both learned the hard way, security is everything when you operate on the internet. Just as a sideline I would never urge anyone to store their keys or passwords online in any capacity, far too risky.

P.S I have set @commentrewarder as a beneficiary for a post I published a couple of days ago, it will be interesting to see how your new comment reward service works.