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My Discord account has been hijacked
2 years ago
I think this is where it begins! You see it correctly, my Discord has been hijacked and is now frozen while they are investigating.
If someone on your friend list suddenly messages you and asks for you to try out a game called Spacers, and it comes in Spacers.rar or Spacers.exe, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!
I did because the person behaved like the friend usually does, and once I was trying to play it, they had control of my account.
They also managed to leech 4 months of Nitro from my bank account before I froze my bank card, which is now also barred.
And they wanted me to pay $200 to get my account AND computer back, and when I didn't comply they broke down my computer so that I had to resort to a complete reboot.
My computer is now fully rebooted to scratch, fully updated, and now I am reinstalling the games I had.
I can be found on Steam, Battle.Net, and Telegram for the time being, but not on Discord.
Morale of this journal: Find a way on another IM software to verify with someone that they are who they are, because then you can hinder stuff like this from happening. Or in an easier and shorter way, BE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ME!
Update: It seems they had not frozen the account at all, because another friend of mine told me through Telegram that they had been messaged by my hijacked account.
Update 2: The hacker has put my Discord account behind an authenticator app. Kinda smart way to hinder access.
If someone on your friend list suddenly messages you and asks for you to try out a game called Spacers, and it comes in Spacers.rar or Spacers.exe, DO NOT DOWNLOAD IT!
I did because the person behaved like the friend usually does, and once I was trying to play it, they had control of my account.
They also managed to leech 4 months of Nitro from my bank account before I froze my bank card, which is now also barred.
And they wanted me to pay $200 to get my account AND computer back, and when I didn't comply they broke down my computer so that I had to resort to a complete reboot.
My computer is now fully rebooted to scratch, fully updated, and now I am reinstalling the games I had.
I can be found on Steam, Battle.Net, and Telegram for the time being, but not on Discord.
Morale of this journal: Find a way on another IM software to verify with someone that they are who they are, because then you can hinder stuff like this from happening. Or in an easier and shorter way, BE MORE INTELLIGENT THAN ME!
Update: It seems they had not frozen the account at all, because another friend of mine told me through Telegram that they had been messaged by my hijacked account.
Update 2: The hacker has put my Discord account behind an authenticator app. Kinda smart way to hinder access.
It is more than likely a virus imitating a ransomware.
Pro tip: message Discord support ASAP when you do lose your account, requesting IMMEDIATE SUSPENSION and restoring authentication details for your account!
Virustotal confirmed my suspicions. It even take a capture of your webcam!
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file.....40845/behavior
Thanks for your post and glad to have helped! You saved me pain too! They literally acted the same as the genuine friend!