The Bitshares desktop client version 0.6.2 was behaving oddly, instead of logging in it was refreshing the splash screen and returning to the login details so I deleted and installed an earlier version but have only gotten "invalid password" or "wrong password" notices since.

How can I verify whether I was hacked, or if there's some other issue?

Restoring backups on clean installations haven't worked. I tried old versions and the latest 0.70.

Quote from: Blahbleuhbleuh on March 08, 2015, 08:11:23 pm

Hey. I have the same problem. I'm trying to restore a wallet backed up in version 0.4.24, but I get the same error. I am dead sure of the password, which does have special characters (nothing outside of what you can type on your standard english keyboard though. no spaces). I checked and the master key record type structure is correct. Using 0.4.24 doesn't work either, it still gives me the same error.... same with 0.5.3

If the password won't even work on the old versions, it sounds like either your password really is wrong or there is a separate issue from what everyone else in this thread is experiencing.

In any case, I will think about if we can maybe add an option to force the backup to restore even if it thinks the password is wrong.

I'm totally locked out. Tried so many of the versions and all I get is invalid/wrong password. BTW I prefer the 5.0/5.3 splash screens. I don't know for sure but it looks like a malicious individual is the culprit for my password being wrong. Nobody I know personally knew my password, or even what bitshares is, but I found this website video.b1.org up to something. Is there anything I can do? 

Our presence is lacking. The community is sophisticated, and large and deserves more attention from us.

http://www.quora.com/Bitshares

I think a discussion on the Bitcoin blockchain should be first. In that discussion, I plan on starting with a description of money. Then I'll talk about the block chain in as much of a capacity as I can, and as my audience can handle. Then I guess questions, followed by the importance of decentralized technology for society.

 

Hello world,

I hope to find support in my aim to support the Bitshares ecosystem.

The initiative I'm to spearhead is a group meet up, in my local town of Montreal in Quebec, Canada.

Here is the page to the platform it is listed on: http://www.meetup.com/BitsharesMontreal.

I'm seeing that I cannot redo the registration because I am already registered, however that's not the what I see in my Bitshares client.