Elephants are intelligent as they are powerful.
I am glad that you found a way to get your account back WOW.
Also read the post of @neoxian about not using the active key in logging in third party sites and even here at steemit but only the posting key, except of course we need to make a financial transaction.
Ah yes good. I have begun to learn about this whole key business! I am really lucky I didn't get cut out forever...