Yeah, many get hacked recently.
Never share your private owner key or hive password!
Be careful when using your active key
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RE: Hive Financial Statistics – 2022.02.15
Yeah, many get hacked recently.
Never share your private owner key or hive password!
Be careful when using your active key
Yup, I always thought the private key login was a terrible idea, even back in the STEEM days. I am so glad they have things like HIVE Signer now. I hear that there is also a HIVE hardware 2FA device now, is that right?
In any case, that is very sad, so sorry to hear of these innocent people getting robbed. Be sure to ALWAYS use encryption to store your sensitive info guys! And also hardened Firefox with things like NoScript will save you in 99% of browser based attacks. That and dont save passwords in your browser, that is the FIRST place hackers look when they hack you!
Stay safe everyone.
Not really a 2FA hardware device. I'm working on a project called Hive Authentication Services that will provide similar protection.
BTW, if you want to support the related proposal, That would be much appreciated. You can vote for the proposal on Peakd, ecency,
Thank you!
That is fantastic news, I went ahead and voted for it, thank you for sharing! With voting on proposals, how does it work exactly? Does it need a certain number of votes to pass? Or the higher ranked it is the higher priority it is? I just wasnt sure, as the only proposals I votes in before had a binary yes/no option, so I wasnt sure how HIVE proposals differed.
To be funded, a proposal does not need a number of votes but need that the sum of Hive Power held by its is greater than that of the "Return Proposal" (proposal #0)
Thanks for the info.
You're welcome.
BTW, I noticed I miss your witness vote 😢
Do you mind casting one to me? It would be much appreciated!
Hi arcange, what is a witness vote?
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The other problem is too sheer laziness. Many people jumping into crypto without learning even the most basic things. Even a good friend of mine, has been in crypto for 3 years, and he didnt even bother to do 1 hour of research to know that you NEVER use text-based 2FA for his exchange accounts. He also didnt know what a seed phrase was. And he almost fell for the scam text saying his account needs to be "verified". Almost lost all his money due to pure laziness. So I spend 20 minutes going through all, the basics with him to make sure he didnt get scammed, but many folks are just as lazy but do not have friends that have been in crypto for over a decade like me...and those people, many of them will be scammed due to their carelessness.
I am not saying the guys who got their HIVE accounts hacked were lazy just to be clear, I do not know the situation with the recent HIVE hacks, just saying in general this is often the case.
Yeah, people jump in and want to make quick money, but do not care to protect their earnings.
Unfortunately, this leads to good opportunities for scammers.