I will say the current power-down did save me when my account got hacked and I was watching my hard earned HIVE get siphoned off. But it was because of my own stupidity that my account got hacked in the first place. I like the idea of the 4 weeks + 1. That is a good balance of time and speed.
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
What happened? Or what happened that didn't let you recover it in time?
I fell for a contest scam. I really wasn't paying attention I thought I was putting in a posting key, but put in my main key that gave the hacker access to my account who of course then locked me out. @jarvie helped me out on the Peak D discord chat this was quite a while ago when I was pretty new. I think the hackers got 1/3 of my hive which was a couple thousand at that time. At any rate, I was able to get it recovered. And I don't think I knew the exact process of recovering my account until I got help.
Yeah it's quite complex, there's also the first impression people get that they can recover it if they lose their keys which isn't the case, so it's quite a handful of things to know about it.
Yeah indeed, it isn't super easy to recover, but at least I was able to. Better to just be extremely cautious in the first place and not fall for scams LOL.