As a result, my reputation dropped to -1.
Wooooooo
Amazing how the whole system is responding to it. I hope that anyx's bot brings much more safety to Steem. I would also do one but I'm a newbie with this. I still need more experience and more set up for a successful Steem bot.
Thanks for this message, Mike. I'll pass it on to whoever gets their account hacked. It must be horrible for the person.
May I ask how they got access to your "site" through your Steem password? Or do you refer to your account and by extension the Steem blog and commenting features?
I simply made a stupid mistake. After spending the last 20 years online, I should have known bettter...
I received a ‘grumpy cat’ flag on my post. (I think I was one if the first, so there were no warning messages yet)
I didn’t do anything wrong, so I clicked the ‘learn more’ link. I was asked to log in. So I did - SteemIt had been acting up, so having to log in was not new. I was using my phone, so didn’t properly checked the URL. SteemiL it was...
On top of that no one ever told me that your ‘password’ isn’t supposed to be used as your password, that you should lock it away in some safe place and use your private posting key to log in instead...
The moment I had logged in to this fake site they had everything...
If I’m not mistaking, the bot is called @ guard
Yes, this seems to be Anyx's bot. Link to intro post