While more people sign up for steemit, more people are sharing their private memo key.
While your private memo key cannot be used to steal your funds or post/comment/upvote on your behalf it will be implemented in the future for private messaging as well as it is a bad practice to share your private keys to the public and you should change your password whenever your key gets exposed.
Here are 8 accounts which I was able to get their private memo by just searching on https://steemd.com/@bittrex where anyone can do it and can access them.
| vsf | 5KfZ1FkJgUbVnViHxMgtyMUYrHrrW99XyXzmRB8DyLKQ7dcD8nU |
| endymionoriax | 5Kj7M7E6XNCiGQf4xaqJnXx2s1YMeQeLRMqSfnNivw9f9okpJFb |
| irozo | 5K55DpG6tXMEGMeUQ1h1ZNjw1mwmMx3SmQAXg2d3H2neHvry3aL |
| mjh2521 | 5JES3J7KJgMVjSGLckaPfxcptLQenNkgGSow36kR5VXYY3VTED6 |
| niekoshkie | 5JHUaiH84vmmdP7qoD6kTR2j5E3TWsKYr2XMLrECVYkfDvG9CL6 |
| wimpiam | 5KEsnAdphDaiX6g9feoTnsnhXevUShcMB8sQ9Gpdct4gA6RGygV |
| ernick | 5Ji4JvHWL7Vr4FrNtLuHKtmU2wYRJMNBdczYn7vjUuixHjuH5Kr |
| rymac2530 | 5JxfHW5Lwq4GrQDAgzfhY8N1uAmFT1LZcC1sm6tadJaqaZ8qot8 |
When transfering sbd/steem to another person and you include # in front of your memo which is the public text, not your memo key, it will encrypt it using your memo key and only you and the receiver can view what the text is.
If you are on this list you should change your password and never share your private key when transferring steem/sbd to anyone.
Not on the list, but I think you are providing these users a useful service by posting this. Also, when you add a memo to a transfer, you can encrypt it so only the recipient can see it by starting the memo with a # symbol. I don't know if that uses the memo key? If so it is already implemented...
@antonchanning that feature is implemented. Thanks for making a notice i will include it in the list
@vsf @endymionoriax @irozo @mjh2521 @niekoshkie @wimpiam @ernick @rymac2530
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