What happens if your NOSTR private key gets hacked? How do you let people know? It’s not like you can close your account bc you can’t “delete” a private key, right?

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well, no one's perfect, except Señor Perfecto, or anyone whose name is Perfect

it almost happened to me, luckily I was able to save back ups of my confidentials in some cloud, idk I got plenty, like dropbox, drive, etc and a coupla security software, as I dont trust Gdrive 💯

But once someone has your private key, it seems like there is no way to recover? Only option I see is to start a new one and try to get the word out to all the accounts that used to follow you to block the scammer

You have a valid suggestion but if you used your mobile, your private key is still on your clipboard, unless you're the type that deletes clipboard contents regularly

but if it hapens to be a brilliant hacker, I'd have looked into your clipboard, copied everything, then delete

but I'm nice, I won't do that, except for life and death situations or national security concern

and...

there's a way to recover deleted clipboard contents 😊

so yeah, check your clipboard first

on your mobile, tap MESSAGING

tap CREATE A MESSAGE

There's your keyboard!

and voila!

There's your clipboard!