I am so sorry this happened to you too Harold. But I am glad this time the Trust team removed the offender quickly. Two days ago another plagiarizer copied 3 stories of our editor and submitted to my publication ironically. We detected it very quickly and after reporting it the situation was resolved but I wonder why Medium cannot detect duplication. Our senior editor Dr Broadly wrote a story about it but he said only a handful people read it so Medium algorithm flags an authentic story as spam and amplify plagiarize content. The plagiarized story of our editor had more views than the original sadly.

I link this important story here for awareness: https://medium.com/p/61d396c47149

Your case create an alarm bell as I wonder how these scammers can access drafts. I will discuss it with the Trust team as it makes no sense to me.