I put in my last working password and my email address and was directed to wait for an email with recovery news.

I waited. Every few minutes I checked my email for a message from steemit. I waited. Minutes turned into hours and still nothing in my email.

I thought I would contact a couple of my steemit friends and followers that I talk to on Discord to warn them what had happened to my account. They said they would find out what they could. And find out they did And actually solved the mystery for me as to how the theft had happened.

Earlier that day I had clicked on a post entitled something like - At last I found a glitch in Steemit.

There was a link on the page to take the reader to more information - I had clicked on it .

At the moment I clicked on that link a sign in for returning users appeared. This was the series of events I was reminded of when my dear friend from