. I too was wondering how a seasoned steemian like you can get hacked.
Do you know to be possible to recover your account, you need to setup a option like activate it, i was so disappointed that day when i tried the stolen account recovery option that no one told me i have to sort of activate it first. So anything can happen here i think.
Is it??? No, I ain't aware of it. To set up a recovery option? Yes, I did set up a recovery account but I didn't get what you're talking about! It sounds very strange and weird to me.
Stolen Account Recovery can only be used on steemit.com if the account owner had previously listed 'Steemit' as their account trustee and complied with Steemit's Terms of Service.
I hope you're talking about @steem which is a default recovery account when an account is created through steemit.com. I just checked the recovery account specified for your old account and found that you had specified @steem as your recovery account option. So dunno what went wrong for you!