5 DAYS OF HELL
Cyber security is something I've found myself interested in of late especially due to the nature of my job. I recently finished a web migration due to a lot of web security breaches that had been going on due to negligence and improper management of the company database. When I started working for my company I discovered that their website was in shackles with one out of five websites barely standing. The past ICT personnels were obviously not doing a good job, and I wondered how in the world they managed to allow the website to be turned into a haven for hackers. It was so bad that different hackers had access to the company's mail and were using it to impersonate the company and further gain access to the clients database. It was like a virus spreading through the server which made migration the only sensible solution to the problem.
However, the day I first had issues with cyber security was when my hive account was hacked. I was still new to hive, and like every other person was just getting to the fun part of receiving back to back curation. I had saved about $20 for some school expenses and was waiting to sell when they reached $30. I woke up that day to a message from @merit.ahama asking if I know a particular hive user, my answer was obviously no, and then the follow up question of why I did a transaction with her. At this point I became confused and checked my account only to find all my HBD gone. Like totally gone. The pain I felt that instant was both physical, spiritual, mental, emotional, and not to talk about financial.
I immediately began to sweat profusely wondering what had gone wrong. The only person that ever had my keys was my onboarder who, according to her, also deleted it immediately she sent me. But then it turned out her account had been hacked as well and wiped clean of over $300 but she didn't notice because she hadn't been active. The worse was when almost everyone onboarded by the person who onboarded me that had good amount of hive and HBD were also hacked and mine was the latest. From the stats, the hacker had been on my onboarders account for over a month, and only started accessing the others a week to the day I discovered mine was hacked and a power down was initiated.
I started messaging everyone I could possibly message for help until I got to good-karma who was able to change my master password through my account recovery agent. I still remember that had it been @merit.ahama did not help me out, I would have probably said goodbye to my account as the others did. That period wasn't an easy one for me, that's why I called it 5 days of hell because that was what I went through. I couldn't eat, couldn't sleep until my account was fully restored. I know I already said thank you to @merit.ahama but for the purpose of this post I would like to say another thank you and a very big happy birthday to @merit.ahama yeah, today is her birthday… you all can help me wish her too in the comments section…
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 124 EPISODE 2
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Glad I noticed and helped in my little way I could, those were scary days hehe.
Thanks for the wishes 😊
You're welcome
Hmmm, nawaoo..hackers are everywhere...any single day I wake up, the first thing I check is my wallet 😃😃, I can't afford to lose a dime biko ..lol
I really understand how you felt and I pray you won't experience such again
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Amen ooo. I also check my wallet every morning since that time
Lmaooo you say what??? 😂🤣😂🤣😂...
🤣🤣🤣🤣
U heard me right
I have worked so hard to lose my hard earned money 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Infact..I have pushed my liquid hive to savings.. before any hacker will initiate withdrawal which will take 3 days..I must have seen the idiot and retrieve my money 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lmfaoooo.... Make I just take this your advice because me sef no won hear 😑
Those hackers are wicked! Just look at what they make people go through. Glad you recovered your account, thanks to all the people that helped you. Happy birthday @merit.ahama, God bless you for helping @kilvnrex.
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Thanks for the wishes 😊
Yeah, I thank God for them...
#Dreemport brought me again!
Ewo! $300 from your onboarder's account? Chai. That must be an unfortunate day for her too. Hackers are mean and cruel and they don't care what you are passing through at that point because of their own selfish interest. Glad Merit was able to help at that point too. So bad!
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One thing some people don't know is that an amount such as $20 is like $200 to a newbie. I remembered the day I wasted about $10 hive just because I initiated a transaction to an exchange app without including memo. I was so pained, people were like it is just $10, I kept thinking y'all don't know how long it took me to get that $10 on my blog 😅.
Few months ago, I changed my keys and deleted the old ones. Just to make sure my hive account is secured from anyone who might have had my hive keys over the years.
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I also do a lot of changing from time to time just so my hive account can be saved and I don't go through such ordeal again
Lol please is your onboarder still on hive??? I need to hail her because only a woman of substance can survive such ordeal.
Glad you didn't record a huge loss. When my onboarder told me about hackers I just quietly begged God make dem no see me I'm a baby please with a very fragile heart.
Just out of curiosity were the hackers caught?
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The hackers were never caught, although there were suspects.
That loss was my all in all then 🥺
My onboarder is no longer active on hive though
Wow! Dark times.
300$ what, thats huge, even 5$ in this economy is huge, chai am so sorry thank God you were able to change your keys and the hacker didn't wait till you had more than that.
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Thank God he acted the time he did. Recovering from that wasn't easy for me too... But I'm glad I recovered