My account got hacked too, last week. I received a fake comment from @kilbride (who ISN’T the hacker) and I clicked the link inside. SteemIt asked me to log in - which was nothing weird, as it had been happening all the time - so I did.Seconds later, I was locked out if my account. The SBD was gone, and the powering down had started. My reputation score went back to -1.
Once the hackers had access to my account, they used it to send out 30 of their phishing comments. This means 30 people and all their followers were put at risk because of a comment with my name on it.
The fact that your reputation score has been brought down to a negative score, is because someone over at @steemcleaners has been trying to minimize the risk by flagging all phishing comments that have been sent from your account. By flagging them, those comments become invisible to others, which minimizes the chance somebody clicks one of the phishing links.
I’m not sure how many comments were sent through your account, but there’s a big chance you can have your account ánd you reputation score back up. I managed to, however it took some work.
Once I had regained access to my account, the people over at steemcleaners advised me to edit all the comments that were sent to make them harmless. So I spent a couple of hours replacing the text of the phising comments with ‘comment deleted’.
Once I was done, they removed all flags, which brought my reputation back up.
The people who had flagged the phishing comments individually were contacted by some of my friends. Once the situation had been explained, they took back their flag too. So, now I have both my account (with all my followers) and my reputations score back to normal.
Just thought I’d let you know this, so you wouldn’t necessarily lose what you worked so hard for
If u can add it to my original post that would be a great help to others.
Let's continue to fight these crooks and enjoy our wonderful platform.
Thanks again
DarrenHey @simplymike thanks for the information mate! This comment tells what I did perfectly. I actually did all of those things and sat for 4 hours yesterday editing and deleting. I counted over 150 phishing comments that were sent from my @mrbloom account. Prior to this I had spoken to a witness on steemit chat. @guiltyparties advised to do exactly what you mentioned which has been a massive help.
I’ll be happy to. Can you redirect me to your original post?
I must admit I started this comment because I thought you were accusing the ‘good-karma’ account for posting a phishing comment on one if your posts.
I wrote this post-length comment, explaining that the one from whose account the comment was posted was not the hacker. When I re-read your post, I noticed I had fallen into the same trap again. That’s how smart the hackers are. I read ‘goodkarma’ instead of ‘good-kama’. Fortunately, this was a mistake without consequences :0)
All I had to do was erase my one single comment - lol.
The more I hear, the more I think I was very fortunate having only 30 comments to edit. I edited them all, and then sent out a personal message to each one of those people, apologizing for being so stupid to get hacked. It took me ages.... Fortunately, most of them were very understanding :)
I’m going to make a post out of this later today, because it seems like the attack is still making victims every day.
Since I initially had no idea where to go or what to do, it might come in helpful for others.
See how easy it was to get fooled? I'm glad you only had a few comments to deal with... 150 was excruciatingly annoying, coupled with the fact I have RSI too makes for a painful mistake! Let's take this to the next level Mike... Use what ever pieces here from my original post and comments etc.
It will be a great guide for us all in the future.
Cheers mate.
Must get to work now.
Darren