I'm sure we have heard that countless times on the Hive Blockchain but
Do we take it serious?
Do we even know we ought to take them serious?
In simpler terms, if you lose your keys, you are automatically like someone who hasn't heard about Hive and all your rewards and financial benefits are hereby automatically lost.
Hence, in this week of the Newbie initiative, we were taught about how to secure our Hive keys and also how to recover the accounts should we make mistake of falling into temptation of clicking some dangerous phishing links or our account hacked.... We all are humans and as such, humans make mistakes.
With the knowledge of what I learnt, here I am to attempt the questions.
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You woke up early in the morning to find out that your keys are not working and your account is not logging in, then you find out your account has been hacked.
What Would Be Your Next Move To Recover Your Account?
Highlight The Steps You Would Take With Pictures?
Thank God for this wonderful opportunity to partake in this Newbies initiatives programme, atleast I now know the necessary things to do beforehand.
It would be easier if I already have my recovery account duly set and functional.
The Blockchain already took this measure for us when we created our accounts, you can know yours by clicking https://hiveblocks.com/@username
You can change it to someone you know very well...just like I would be changing mine to someone I know rather than what it currently is.
Having known who you're using as your recovery account,
The processes I'll take to recover the account includes:
First step will be me clicking this link below
https://reazuliqbal.com/HiveAccountRecovery/
This link directs me to the screen where I see features it subserves, I already know what I'm looking for, so I'll hurriedly click the "Recover Account".
The next page coming up will come with a well detailed instructions as to what I will have to do and generate a new password.
It is important that I generate a new PUBLIC OWNER KEY and send to the person whose account I'm using as the recovery account.
Finally, with the necessary details, I will fill the required options and click on “Recover Account”.
State Possible Causes That Could Have Resulted In Your Account Being Hacked.
Just like I said before, we all are humans and we can never be too careful not to make mistakes.
Despite knowing the repercussions of losing our keys, we might still make mistakes by:
- Clicking Phishing Links:
These comes in a way of "Ponzy Schemes", click this and get that format.... and because we are too desperate to make money, we might click this and guess what?
We might end up losing the ones we've laboured for.
- Copy And Paste:
It's no one's fault that the keys are very long rather it is to our advantage as they offer greater protection to our account, but then, because of their long nature, it has made us to engage in a lot of copy and paste.
When we are done and subsequently engaging in other platforms like WhatsApp, discord, Twitter and the rest talking with a friend, we might mistakenly paste it and believe me, we send these type of mistake messages faster than we think.
Because of many features that are currently available, deleting it from your end might not necessarily mean deleting it from the other end and invariably we've exposed our keys to a 3rd party.
- Photocopying At The Cybercafe:
It is always advised that we get a hardcopy of our Hive Keys even after doing the electronic savings we do.
We might decide to send the PDF document to the Cybercafe worker to help us print it out which invariably means that we have given it to him.
Humans are inquisitive being, he might be very confused at first after printing the document but might be wondering what exactly was that document.
He might decide to ask someone and more and more persons and might eventually get to lay his hands on the information he was looking for and when he does, your account is already at risk.
- Leaving The Hardcopy Careless:
Just like advised, it is not good enough that we print our Hive Keys and delete them from the Cybercafe, it is also very important that we store them in a very secured place.... I'm tempted to say store in a cool dry place 😅.
That aside, when we store them carelessly, the whole purpose has been defeated as another person can easily lay his hands on them and thereby risking our account ownership.
- Loosing Our Devices:
This could be another major factor that we could lose our keys.
If I lost my device, invariably the person has everything stored in the device including my Hive Keys especially when the device isn't locked at all.
How Does Having A Recovery Account Help In This Situation And What Do You Understand By Recovery Account?
A Recovery Account is a backup account of our account.... The first line of action in getting back our accounts when in danger.
It is the account that will help us recover our accounts when we're locked out of it by hackers.
The Recovery Account is the account where the New public owner key will be sent in our steps of trying to recover our account.
Having this knowledge is very essential in our usage of the Hive Blockchain but it is also very nice that we try our best to avoid any action that will lead to tampering of our accounts especially by doing our possible best to safeguard our Hive Keys because even with the knowledge on how to recover these accounts and we lost our OWNER KEYS in particular, we can't recover our accounts and it will invariably mean that we already worked for nothing.
Thanks for reading and have a great 👍