Why I made a new steemit account.

in #steemit • 7 years ago (edited)

My other account is lost forever in the matrix of the steem blockchain because I was stupid and backed up my text document with my password on a different hard drive and unknowingly deleted the copy on the main hard drive.

The backup hard drive killed it's self now it's corrupt.

After a week or two I accidentally downloaded a virus which made my computers CPU usage 100% which leads me to believe I probably downloaded a silent miner.

I formatted my hard drive and reinstalled windows that's when I realised my password is gone forever. The only way I can get it back is by doing a full recovery which would probably take days, send it to a professional data recovery center, which cost too much money, or figure out what my chrome sync passphrase. Now I'm back to square one with Steemit.

I can't do steemit recovery on my old account which sucks.

At least I've learnt from this mistake and will ensure my passwords are saved online and offline.

I am going to make new more content on this account so please follow to help me to make back all the hard work I've lost.

Thank you for reading.

#password #recovery #corrupt #help
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     7 years ago 

    Good lesson to share with the rest of us. Thank you.

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     7 years ago 

    I would recommend to store the master key only offline and without any Computer.
    The posting Key for however can be stored in a Passwordmanager.

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     7 years ago 

    I sent myself an email with the key, so it stays in there

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