This Is How You Speed Up Your Steemit Account Recovery!
One can never be too careful with managing their Steemit passwords. As I've found out recently, the number of people trying to recover their passwords have shot up in number. There are regular requests that come through on the help channel in Steemit.Chat as well as DMs of some users including myself.
Most of the time people misplace their passwords after creating their account on their phone. They usually save their password in their browser and never any copy elsewhere. There are plenty of other cases including sharing their master keys on transfer memos—very stupid in my honest opinion.
People forget that Steemit cannot reset your password for you. You can only recover your account if you have the last known master password. If you have totally forgotten your master password then you might as well say goodbye to your account.
If your account was hacked and password changed, you have upto 30 days to attempt recovery. If you had the last known master password with you, then you can easily change your master key after attempting recovery.
Remember this before attempting to recover your account:
Use the same email you used to sign up your account on Steemit to put an account recovery request. This is likely to speed up your recovery process. This makes it easier for Steemit to verify you own the account.
As long as your email isn't hacked you are quite safe to use this as an option. I highly recommend using 2FA on all your email, crypto exchange and social media accounts or any website that allows this feature or a Yubikey. Personally, I use Authy–Two-Factor Authentication App on my phone and also use a Yubikey.
When you create a new account or recommend Steemit to someone, please be informed that it's a great idea to always retain access to email account used to create your Steemit account. Never use a temporary email provider. Until Steemit adds the flexibility to change your account details, it is our responsibility to be careful about our keys!
There's no point in blaming anyone else if we are at fault from being careless about our Steemit account security and the money in our account/s.
Our friend and top Steemit witness @gandalf The Grey has made an excellent post to this effect which is a highly recommended read: Memos, keys and passwords, Balrogs and Fields of Despair. Be safe. Almost $100k wasn't.
You can also read my post from few months ago which is a must read in my opinion for new users: Dummies Guide to Basic Steemit Account Security + Account Recovery Guide!
Always remember this:
The first rule of Steemit is: Do not lose your password.
The second rule of Steemit is: Do not lose your password.
The third rule of Steemit is: We cannot recover your password.
The fourth rule: If you can remember the password, it's not secure.
The fifth rule: Use only randomly-generated passwords.
The sixth rule: Do not tell anyone your password.
The seventh rule: Always backup your password.
I hope you have learnt how you can speed up your Steemit account recovery or avoid getting into this situation in the first place!
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raises his hand in guilt
Yeah... I did that! I reset my master password on Saturday because I had posted one of my private keys in a memo to one of the exchanges. Fortunately someone without malicious intent sent me a message suggesting a change my password quick like.
Problem was, as soon as I changed my password, I promptly failed to properly save my password, counting on the browser to do it for me.
It didn't. YIKES! I was locked out!
There's a lengthy post into my panic thereafter, but long story short, I was able to use account recovery and they did me a solid this time. My heart skipped a beat when the email approving my recovery came in on Tuesday morning. Being without my home Steem account for 2 days was tough. I'm an addict!
Passwords are now saved in a fireproof lockbox, and no more private key sharing for me!
Thanks for the reminders firepower! A very timely post (that I could have used last week. haha)
Can Steemit use 2FA?
I also use this on all my important accounts.
i want to use my ledger nano s to keep my steemit key, use the chrome ext to authorize steem wallet transactions
I know 3 people myself who saved it on there phones and lost access. There must be tons. All those accounts keep growing slowly and most have just opened another account and forgot that one.
Thanks a lot for the wealth of knowledge contained in this post. Password safety is a major cause for concern these days especially with all the fake phishing sites and stupid scams flying around these days which can compromise several accounts on the platform.
thanks 4 sharing
You're welcome. :)
So important to remember, especially after the recent phishing scam. Good post mate, keep educating.
Glad, I could help. Thanks buddy.
Nothing is more important than you're steemit account password so treat it like you're jewel or bank notes. Write it down and keep it in a safe, never share it to others. That is why it is called private keys not public. Private is private, no one can able to see it other than you.
Good information @cloudspyder. I totally agree with you.
It will not work sometimes. I lost my master password and even I did the password recovery within some days with my email and master password that I got after registration it did not help. So I do not know if this really works. You wrote in your previous post:
So I did not get back, can you tell me why?
I almost fell victim of this @firepower. Losing password on mobile phones, it's not cool. I am glad to see you put this piece of the idea together for us to learn from. Thanks.
your friendly knight @bat-junior
good work nice information
greetings @firepower
Thank you.