(Jan 4, 2020 08:13 AM)Cooligan Wrote:  Wait, this isn't Minimalist the old Staff member, is it?

edit: Around the time you left I believe it was a requirement to have 2FA enabled in order to recover any account, I'm surprised you didn't have it enabled. 2FA helps SO much, and then Country Lock on top of it; perfection.

(Jan 4, 2020 08:27 AM)Eagle 95 Wrote:  No, this is not an ex-staff.

(Jan 4, 2020 05:41 AM)๖ۣۜEnlightened Wrote:  If this claim is legitimate, the only thing I can think of is that you were effected by a DB dump, if there has ever been one on HF (I think there has been some time back).

Do you remember the last time you changed your PW before you lost access?

Quote:Just trying to shed some light on it and maybe (hopefully) get my account back after all the time spent on it.

(Jan 4, 2020 11:16 AM)Omniscient Wrote:  So your lack of security led to members of the community being scammed for thousands of dollars.    A common tactic of scammers back then was to share 50/50 the amount scammed.  But of course I got word the scammer didn't keep his word and just kept all the scammed money.  


Pay back the money to those scammed and maybe I'd consider it.  But realistically we both know that's not going to happen.  Either you were irresponsible with your account security or you were part of the scam. Both scenarios disqualifies you from recovery.

And as Xerotic said about that dump, pretty much useless for the most part. But accounts were being compromised through a rainbow table attack on very old accounts that eventually got upgraded.  At the time of the dump (2011) I chose to only force-reset passwords of upgraded members.  So if you didn't have an upgraded account at the time you might not have been reset.  A few years ago a lot of closed and old accounts were being accessed forcing me to take additional measures against the accounts.  It's possible that if you never changed your password that your account was in that dump and that eventually you went from a regular member to Ub3r thus making your account very attractive to spend time to crack and steal.  

None of those accounts can be compromised anymore.  But the fact is that 2FA would have 100% prevented your account from being stolen (if indeed that even happened).

I feel no pity for OP.

(Jan 4, 2020 08:13 AM)Cooligan Wrote:  Wait, this isn't Minimalist the old Staff member, is it?

edit: Around the time you left I believe it was a requirement to have 2FA enabled in order to recover any account, I'm surprised you didn't have it enabled. 2FA helps SO much, and then Country Lock on top of it; perfection.

(Jan 4, 2020 08:05 AM)Prince™ Wrote:  I remember you Minimalist. You seemed to be a very active and one of the nice person of HF and then one day I read a news that said minimalist is now banned, on HF News.

I don't really know what to say. Maybe people should learn from you to protect their accounts more carefully.

(Jan 4, 2020 07:58 AM)spiral Wrote:  Oh I remember that DD, I was so confused as I thought u were the real minimalist, but I re-read the DD.

(Jan 4, 2020 03:45 AM)Ace Wrote:  Damn you scammed that guy for 2,500$ holy crap!