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Learning & News => For Beginners => Basic questions about this forum => Topic started by: bayu7adi on August 21, 2024, 03:30:14 AM
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Is it possible to recover if something bad happens to our Altcoinstalks account by securing email alone, such as theft or forgetting the password? No phone number? No 2fa?
Or do we need another layer of security that we need to activate so that our Altcoinstalks account can only be accessed by ourselves? in btt forum, staking wallet is a community solution to become another recovery solution... do we need the same thing?
Share your experience in securing your Altcoinstalks account... maybe it can be a preference for other people to be careful in the future.
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Or do we need another layer of security that we need to activate so that our Altcoinstalks account can only be accessed by ourselves? in btt forum, staking wallet is a community solution to become another recovery solution... do we need the same thing?
I guess so, the account can be recovered in the same way but used to be a KYC system which was removed earlier this year due to the abuse of KYC badges from users by bypassing duplicate IDs.
That leads to manual recovery by the admin and it can be a lot faster here than bitcoin talk or at least for now.
But it is impossible for someone to change anything in your account without knowing the current password and also admin gave some insights about it recently.
Your passwords are safe, but do not have the same password used everywhere, because other platforms/sites/forums/etc.. might not have strict password encryption.
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in btt forum, staking wallet is a community solution to become another recovery solution... do we need the same thing?
Isn't there one already? I remember seeing some members posting their staked message with an address in the forum section. It's a good idea as a secondary way to verify that you still control your account assuming you don't lose your old address. I also remember that some suggest us to change our password regularly using an open-source password manager to generate and save our password. I think that's neat since you don't have to remember too many password and avoid using the same one on multiple websites, which is one of the common ways where a malicious actor can get and access your account. CMIIW.
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Findingnemo as said it all. And I add it to what joniboini has said, since you have an bitcoin address in the forum and people have seen it therefore you can sign a message with the address then admin can look into it and if seen that the account is yours is hacking before then reset everything for you. Always secure your email, password and the account. Don't disclose them to anyone. If you login to someone device, make sure you logout and don't save your password in the device.
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Bitcoin address staking proved to be an effective solution for later proving ownership of the forum account. At least that's the experience on another forum, that's why we launched such an initiative here as well
Here is a thread ✅ Stake your Bitcoin address (https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321705)
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Bitcoin address staking proved to be an effective solution for later proving ownership of the forum account. At least that's the experience on another forum, that's why we launched such an initiative here as well
Here is a thread ✅ Stake your Bitcoin address (https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321705)
Sorry, I didn't find this topic before and thanks for putting the link here... it seems quite useful for us if something bad happens to our account someday. Since the recovery process seems to involve admins, I just want to ask a little about the topic: "Stake your Bitcoin address"., is this something that is mandatory for all altcoinstalks forum users?
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Sorry, I didn't find this topic before and thanks for putting the link here... it seems quite useful for us if something bad happens to our account someday. Since the recovery process seems to involve admins, I just want to ask a little about the topic: "Stake your Bitcoin address"., is this something that is mandatory for all altcoinstalks forum users?
Every recovery account requires the inclusion of an administrator. for example, only the admin can reset a hacked account. Staking the address is not mandatory for all users, but it is highly recommended because it can significantly help the admin to recognize the real owner of the account.
It costs nothing, and it can be very useful.
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For teleported account seems easily recovery their account from hacking by put their profile of altcoinstalk link at bitcointalk account, but for original altcoinstalk account need sign bitcoin message such as adopt with bitcointalk forum and there are not space for hacker using our account.
For stake your bitcoin address its not possibility for us using exchange wallet address for joining signature campaign, are there any way how to stake bitcoin address to protect if any scammer hack our account. I don't know all user using the blockchain bitcoin address and easily for staking but how possibility if bitcoin address us from binance exchange?
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Actually we teleported from btt and entered alt forum due to which the information of both of us is same. But if we keep all the information confidential from our personal side then there is no possibility of hacking. However my suggestion to secure your altcoinstalks account is to turn on the 2fa system very quickly. It can happen from any source. On the other hand you can make your account stronger by verifying your account with kyc on alt forum, so you can use kyc if you want. However the admin of alt forum is always active and supports everyone so admin will help us, if we got hacking problem by someone.
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My question is that if I forget the password of my altcoinstalk account how will you be able to retrieve it back if your account was teleported from BTT. I don't have access to my password anymore but I am always login to my account here automatically. I don't get it the way as explained by forum members above.
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My question is that if I forget the password of my altcoinstalk account how will you be able to retrieve it back if your account was teleported from BTT. I don't have access to my password anymore but I am always login to my account here automatically. I don't get it the way as explained by forum members above.
How is it possible that you don't have your password for this forum? Automatic login means that you have a password manager that saved your passwords and automatically applies them on every given website or you simply don't delete your browsing history, cookies and cache?
As for signing the message from the BTC address, this should serve as the ultimate proof that you are the owner in case someone hacks your account - although if someone hacks your forum or e-mail access information, it is possible that they also have access to your crypto wallets and private keys, so he can sign a message from the same address.
RAT (remote access trojan) is a nasty thing that allows a hacker to take complete control of someone's device.
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Is it possible to recover if something bad happens to our Altcoinstalks account by securing email alone, such as theft or forgetting the password? No phone number? No 2fa?
Or do we need another layer of security that we need to activate so that our Altcoinstalks account can only be accessed by ourselves? in btt forum, staking wallet is a community solution to become another recovery solution... do we need the same thing?
Share your experience in securing your Altcoinstalks account... maybe it can be a preference for other people to be careful in the future.
I've read a lot of interesting opinions from other members. They're really creative, and I've never thought of these solutions. I'm not a security expert, so I'll suggest some solutions I would use if my AltcoinsTalks account were compromised.
1. We have a Telegram forum. I'll try to contact the admin or mods to regain access to my account on AltcoinsTalks forum.
2. I have the blockchain address that has interacted with the forum address. I can send a small amount of ALTT token to the forum address as confirmation.
3. I've posted many screenshots from TradingView with the signature MrSpasybo. I can do that again to prove that I am the real MrSpasybo.
4. I can provide my IP address for the admin to cross-reference with my login history. The hacker can't be in my house to use my WiFi ^^
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1. We have a Telegram forum. I'll try to contact the admin or mods to regain access to my account on AltcoinsTalks forum.
It is very easy for someone to impersonate your Telegram account. A rather insecure option for recovering a forum account
2. I have the blockchain address that has interacted with the forum address. I can send a small amount of ALTT token to the forum address as confirmation.
This can be one of the solutions, although it is even simpler to stake your BTC or ETH address.
We also have a topic about that ✅ Stake your Bitcoin address (https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321705.0)
Interestingly, only a few users used this option, although it is the simplest and does not cost anything.
3. I've posted many screenshots from TradingView with the signature MrSpasybo. I can do that again to prove that I am the real MrSpasybo.
Screenshots can easily be edited, every kid knows how to do that. This method cannot provide reliable confirmation of the ownership of the forum account
4. I can provide my IP address for the admin to cross-reference with my login history. The hacker can't be in my house to use my WiFi ^^
Quite complicated. You would first have to prove that the IP address is yours, and then that no one else is using it. Again, the one who is supposed to reason about it will never be 100% sure of the accuracy of everything.
Plus that way you are forced to give some personal information.
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4. I can provide my IP address for the admin to cross-reference with my login history. The hacker can't be in my house to use my WiFi ^^
This may or may not be proof, because I assume that you do not have a static IP address but, like most, a dynamic one that changes at least once every 24 hours. Of course, the IP address can show a pattern indicating that you come from the same country/region, while hackers mostly try to hide their identity using VPN/Tor.
As for Wi-Fi hacking, everything depends on how you have set up your protection on the modem, that is, whether you use the highest possible protection with a strong password and whether you have turned off the WPS function, which enables a very simple intrusion into the wireless network, given that the hacker only needs to brute force number which (if I'm not mistaken consists of an 8-digit id).
In addition, with the right equipment, wireless networks can be hacked at a much greater distance than many people think - so we don't always have to blame the evil neighbors.
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2. I have the blockchain address that has interacted with the forum address. I can send a small amount of ALTT token to the forum address as confirmation.
This can be one of the solutions, although it is even simpler to stake your BTC or ETH address.
We also have a topic about that ✅ Stake your Bitcoin address (https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321705.0)
Interestingly, only a few users used this option, although it is the simplest and does not cost anything.
I realize that staking address is a pretty good option and works like 2FA with a different version, but I haven't realized the weakness of this option, unless our wallet is hacked by someone else. That worst possibility could happen, and the hacker will easily get the account connected to the wallet (if the hacker realizes this connection)
In your opinion, sir. Are there any other weaknesses regarding the staking address mechanism to secure our altcoinstalks account?
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Is it possible to recover if something bad happens to our Altcoinstalks account by securing email alone, such as theft or forgetting the password? No phone number? No 2fa?
Or do we need another layer of security that we need to activate so that our Altcoinstalks account can only be accessed by ourselves? in btt forum, staking wallet is a community solution to become another recovery solution... do we need the same thing?
Share your experience in securing your Altcoinstalks account... maybe it can be a preference for other people to be careful in the future.
We already have stake wallet solution here (https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321705.0) if you want to stake your wallet to show the ownership of your account, then you should use this feature. Although the email must be enough to recover the account, yeah, besides wallet and email, we need other ways to recover the account as well. One thing is the admin here gives replies fast, so the time to solve such problems will be less.
If you can't access your email and you lost the wallet seed as well, then you must register the BTT with some other email that can be kept aside, and you can use that account to verify this account I hope if admin can make this work to verify the ownership. Like I have been teleported from BTT to ALTT, and if I lost this account, I might be able to prove my ownership in here and on that account. As I have already proof that on BTT and on ALTT Faisal2202 is my account.
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I just use a strong password and i have an email that i use only for my altcoinstalks account, so that is it for me and i don't think i need anything else. If your account password is strong enough and cannot be bruteforced and you are in control of the email address you used to open your account, then i think all is fine.
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If you can't access your email and you lost the wallet seed as well, then you must register the BTT with some other email that can be kept aside, and you can use that account to verify this account I hope if admin can make this work to verify the ownership. Like I have been teleported from BTT to ALTT, and if I lost this account, I might be able to prove my ownership in here and on that account. As I have already proof that on BTT and on ALTT Faisal2202 is my account.
You mean, doing recovery in BTT and then to recover the account also in ALTT like Teleport mechanism?? The way may be a bit long, but I can think of it as something reasonable. I know that my account is also a teleport account, so maybe that can be a strong reason to connect each other on BTT and ALTT forums.
I just use a strong password and i have an email that i use only for my altcoinstalks account, so that is it for me and i don't think i need anything else. If your account password is strong enough and cannot be bruteforced and you are in control of the email address you used to open your account, then i think all is fine.
If you think that's enough, maybe it's a little different from me... it's still not strong enough to secure your account...
I've been a victim of email hacking, and I hope you also realize that hackers are actually smarter than you think.
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I've been a victim of email hacking, and I hope you also realize that hackers are actually smarter than you think.
Have you identified how they managed to hack your e-mail? If they managed to install a malware on your computer or something similar, then using a signed message would be useless IMO. I do agree that you should add more options to secure your account, but after you managed to identify and make sure your device is clean. I remember making the same mistake on my old computer, which is why I used a dedicated offline device for 2FA and so on.
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You mean, doing recovery in BTT and then to recover the account also in ALTT like Teleport mechanism?? The way may be a bit long, but I can think of it as something reasonable. I know that my account is also a teleport account, so maybe that can be a strong reason to connect each other on BTT and ALTT forums.
You got it right. I did mean we can use BTT as a recovery method for ALTT if somehow it can work efficiently. If somehow now I verify with admin that Faisal2202 is my account on BTT and whenever I have to recover my ALTT account I will verify it from BTT this way we can get more security as of now we already have 2FA on BTT. But maybe soon we will get 2FA here as well.
By recovering ALTT, it must be straightforward forward, and yeah, those who don't want to create an account first on BTT and then want to teleport from there to here, and those who already have legendary rank here, how can they teleport from BTT or how can they get a teleport badge because if on BTT they are not legendary, then a problem will arise. That's why I think this plan is not that efficient.
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Does the admin/forum keep a log of users' email when registering on the Altcoinstalks forum?
If yes, another alternative to recovering a hacked account is to create a PGP Sign message using that email address to prove account ownership.
However, proving account ownership with a signed message on a previously staked BTC address is much simpler.
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However, proving account ownership with a signed message on a previously staked BTC address is much simpler.
I don't know, maybe some people are not so enthusiastic about staking their BTC address here... maybe some people are still waiting for the hacking case to be resolved first, because so far it seems there have been no cases of account hacking on the altcoinstalk forum.
I intend to do it in the near future, but it turns out that my wallet is not secure and was also hacked by someone else two days ago... I am evaluating my activities to learn to secure my wallet more carefully, then after that I will stake as soon as possible in the related thread.
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However, proving account ownership with a signed message on a previously staked BTC address is much simpler.
I don't know, maybe some people are not so enthusiastic about staking their BTC address here... maybe some people are still waiting for the hacking case to be resolved first, because so far it seems there have been no cases of account hacking on the altcoinstalk forum.
I intend to do it in the near future, but it turns out that my wallet is not secure and was also hacked by someone else two days ago... I am evaluating my activities to learn to secure my wallet more carefully, then after that I will stake as soon as possible in the related thread.
Staking of Bitcoin wallet is just for necessity sake, else, when a member carefully protects their device and their accounts, there's no way they can lose their account to hackers. During my long years of using phone and laptop, hackers have never been able to steal any of my account, it only happened ones and it was my Facebook account they hacked and I later recovered it back. If one is extremely careful, they will not lose their account.
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I intend to do it in the near future, but it turns out that my wallet is not secure and was also hacked by someone else two days ago... I am evaluating my activities to learn to secure my wallet more carefully, then after that I will stake as soon as possible in the related thread.
Is this related to the previous e-mail hack you mentioned in another thread? Hopefully, you can figure out which device is exploited so you can either format or dispose of it forever. Make sure to change your password and activate 2FA on any sensitive account before you stake any message on this forum. If you're using a self-custodial wallet like Electrum, there's a high chance that there's a keylogger or something similar on your device if you never store your seed online.
Personally, I don't think being extra careful is wrong even if you never become a victim of hacking attacks. Remember that people fall for phishing e-mail attacks because they are too confident and never double-check any links before they click them.
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However, proving account ownership with a signed message on a previously staked BTC address is much simpler.
I don't know, maybe some people are not so enthusiastic about staking their BTC address here... maybe some people are still waiting for the hacking case to be resolved first, because so far it seems there have been no cases of account hacking on the altcoinstalk forum.
I intend to do it in the near future, but it turns out that my wallet is not secure and was also hacked by someone else two days ago... I am evaluating my activities to learn to secure my wallet more carefully, then after that I will stake as soon as possible in the related thread.
You can use any Bitcoin address you have posted on Altcoinstalks (preferably one quoted or archived by another user) as proof of account ownership if it is hacked at any time.
However, if your current wallet is not safe, you should not use the address from that wallet to stake on the forum because hackers risk claiming the account by creating a signed message using the wallet address.
You could try using another safe device for wallet installation purposes until your main device is truly safe.
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I think the best way to keep ourself safe is to always plan ahead, we don't have to wait till that time comes, we cant avoid our account being under attack by scammers right from the way we handles it, some of us were too lazy in doing things and this same thing is what we have also taken on how we handles our account, most times we are the cause to the reason why it got compromised because of our negligence.
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You can use any Bitcoin address you have posted on Altcoinstalks (preferably one quoted or archived by another user) as proof of account ownership if it is hacked at any time.
However, if your current wallet is not safe, you should not use the address from that wallet to stake on the forum because hackers risk claiming the account by creating a signed message using the wallet address.
You could try using another safe device for wallet installation purposes until your main device is truly safe.
I just did that, which is Stake my Bitcoin address at https://www.altcoinstalks.com/index.php?topic=321705.30
I also heard you have a hardware wallet, I started thinking about hardware wallet because lately it seems like my computer is not safe to store my main assets.. so can you recommend a hardware wallet as the safest wallet now? Like trezor or maybe you can recommend another one with a cheaper price?
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I also heard you have a hardware wallet, I started thinking about hardware wallet because lately it seems like my computer is not safe to store my main assets.. so can you recommend a hardware wallet as the safest wallet now? Like trezor or maybe you can recommend another one with a cheaper price?
I would not be guided by the cheapest option here. For example, Ledger had some very cheap offers, a big discount, but it is still not recommended because of everything they have done lately.
Trezor is a good choice (I use it, although I also have Ledger). If you're already thinking about HW, the holidays are coming soon, black Friday etc... for example, I know Trezor always gives additional discounts, so maybe you can take advantage of that.
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Share your experience in securing your Altcoinstalks account... maybe it can be a preference for other people to be careful in the future.
I'm not sure if it still works or not but I believe the ones who got teleported from Bitcointalk might get their accounts back easily by staking Altcoinstalks account in their Bitcointalk profile and or make a post about it on this forum that they have lost access to their account.
And, when it comes to account safety, then first I suggest you to use a separate device for your accounts and not install any software of that device at all so you may not get any unknown malware in your system and thus the hackers won't be able to hack your account.
You may also try to shift to Linux for better security or at the same time you may choose 2FA for much better security. If I'm not wrong then there's also a similar wallet address staking thread like Bitcointalk on this forum. You may also stake your address there for even better security.