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Someone hacked a bunch of accounts a few months back. Steemit refunded the money to those who lost their funds (afaik) and created the recover account tool to get their accounts back.

Oh, sounds like there was a lot of drama involved in this incident. Thanks for replying to my question by the way :)

Yes tuck is right. People got hacked a few months ago and one of the more recent meanings of pwn has been to hack.