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The Hacker Saga: How I Got My Discord Account Back
2 years ago
At the time of writing, I finally got my Discord account back. I've told everything to all my affected friends and deleted the offending link. One friend of mine blocked me, though... Can't blame them; I understand the need to protect yourself from an obvious hacker. I managed to explain everything on Twitter/X; still waiting for their respond back.
Upon finally getting my account back, I've wasted no time doing a full screenshot of our conversation. This should explain what was going on. Because I had not seen this friend for a year, I was excited, and they seemed to really support my streaming endeavors when I mentioned to them that I'm a streamer now. It didn't help matters that my friend was indeed a programmer themself, further giving the plausibility that they are who they are when they said that they've been working on a game.
However, I must also not ignore this possibility: that the hacker turned out to be my friend all along. In which case, I'd be very, very angry. >_< Why would they do such a thing? Do they have a vendetta against me? Plus, the timing of the hack -- just as I was about to start streaming again on Twitch -- seemed too good to be a coincidence.
Anyway, once they had my PC under control, they gloated, showing me files inside my PC, and threatening to install junk into my PC unless I cooperated. I had no idea what cooperation I should do to appease their demands, but I got a feeling that it's that classic extortion tactic, sending them money -- almost always cryptocurrency -- if I want this nightmare to end. I reacted by ripping my LAN cable off my PC, leaving it disconnected from the Internet. During that time, I managed to find the offending hacker program, and killed the process. Then I backed up EVERYTHING.
This unfazed the hacker. They might've lost my PC, but... they still have my Discord account. For not cooperating, they did a mass post to that Itch.io link to everyone in my contact -- all dozens of them. When I finally got my account back, I had to delete EVERY SINGLE ONE of those posts with that offending link.
Link to all the screenshots: https://sta.sh/215fifzvp2qv
Because that hacker program already caused a mess within my computer's systems, making it an absolute hassle to poke through the Registry, there can be only one course of action: do a complete reinstall of the system. A completely clean slate. I didn't even care anymore: I just want my computer back. =_= This morning, my parents and I took our computer to the computer shop, to have it assessed, backing up the last of the files we could -- thank goodness it wasn't a full-on ransomware attack, though it was trying to be one -- and then completely reinstall the OS all over again. I'm still setting everything up as we speak; I still haven't reinstalled OBS again yet, which I'm hoping to do if I want to start streaming on Twitch again.
I might have to recreate my Discord server once more. That old server of mine was gone -- it was necessary to delete that server, because Discord won't let me disable my account, unless I revoke myself ownership of that server, or just straight-up delete it. It didn't matter, anyway... That hacker wiped that server clean, so all sweet memories within that server was gone. This is gonna be a slow process developing my server once more, but this will also give me the opportunity to improve the server a bit, like for example, announcements and stream announcements will be combined to just one channel now: "Announcements and Streams".
Anyway, it's good to be back. I'm still trying to get my bearings back, and I'm not sure if I can stream again in this state that I'm in. x_x I'm still shaken-up by the entire experience, and there's no telling if the hacker would try to hack me again... God, I'm paranoid now. x_x I do appreciate all of you guys' support.
It really does seem like I was caught-up by this malware attack that's been going about on Discord. Please be careful, and don't let this doesn't happen to you too. DO NOT download and install any questionable files out there.
If you really want to support me, you can do so by helping me recuperate the costs of the computer repair. Become my patron on Patreon; buy me Ko-Fis; subscribe to my Twitch channel; etc... Anything to keep my mind at ease. I couldn't sleep for the entire night, and when I did sleep, I've had NIGHTMARES of what was happening. I kept praying that this will never happen again. I love you all. Thank you for all the support that you've given to me for years.
Upon finally getting my account back, I've wasted no time doing a full screenshot of our conversation. This should explain what was going on. Because I had not seen this friend for a year, I was excited, and they seemed to really support my streaming endeavors when I mentioned to them that I'm a streamer now. It didn't help matters that my friend was indeed a programmer themself, further giving the plausibility that they are who they are when they said that they've been working on a game.
However, I must also not ignore this possibility: that the hacker turned out to be my friend all along. In which case, I'd be very, very angry. >_< Why would they do such a thing? Do they have a vendetta against me? Plus, the timing of the hack -- just as I was about to start streaming again on Twitch -- seemed too good to be a coincidence.
Anyway, once they had my PC under control, they gloated, showing me files inside my PC, and threatening to install junk into my PC unless I cooperated. I had no idea what cooperation I should do to appease their demands, but I got a feeling that it's that classic extortion tactic, sending them money -- almost always cryptocurrency -- if I want this nightmare to end. I reacted by ripping my LAN cable off my PC, leaving it disconnected from the Internet. During that time, I managed to find the offending hacker program, and killed the process. Then I backed up EVERYTHING.
This unfazed the hacker. They might've lost my PC, but... they still have my Discord account. For not cooperating, they did a mass post to that Itch.io link to everyone in my contact -- all dozens of them. When I finally got my account back, I had to delete EVERY SINGLE ONE of those posts with that offending link.
Link to all the screenshots: https://sta.sh/215fifzvp2qv
Because that hacker program already caused a mess within my computer's systems, making it an absolute hassle to poke through the Registry, there can be only one course of action: do a complete reinstall of the system. A completely clean slate. I didn't even care anymore: I just want my computer back. =_= This morning, my parents and I took our computer to the computer shop, to have it assessed, backing up the last of the files we could -- thank goodness it wasn't a full-on ransomware attack, though it was trying to be one -- and then completely reinstall the OS all over again. I'm still setting everything up as we speak; I still haven't reinstalled OBS again yet, which I'm hoping to do if I want to start streaming on Twitch again.
I might have to recreate my Discord server once more. That old server of mine was gone -- it was necessary to delete that server, because Discord won't let me disable my account, unless I revoke myself ownership of that server, or just straight-up delete it. It didn't matter, anyway... That hacker wiped that server clean, so all sweet memories within that server was gone. This is gonna be a slow process developing my server once more, but this will also give me the opportunity to improve the server a bit, like for example, announcements and stream announcements will be combined to just one channel now: "Announcements and Streams".
Anyway, it's good to be back. I'm still trying to get my bearings back, and I'm not sure if I can stream again in this state that I'm in. x_x I'm still shaken-up by the entire experience, and there's no telling if the hacker would try to hack me again... God, I'm paranoid now. x_x I do appreciate all of you guys' support.
It really does seem like I was caught-up by this malware attack that's been going about on Discord. Please be careful, and don't let this doesn't happen to you too. DO NOT download and install any questionable files out there.
If you really want to support me, you can do so by helping me recuperate the costs of the computer repair. Become my patron on Patreon; buy me Ko-Fis; subscribe to my Twitch channel; etc... Anything to keep my mind at ease. I couldn't sleep for the entire night, and when I did sleep, I've had NIGHTMARES of what was happening. I kept praying that this will never happen again. I love you all. Thank you for all the support that you've given to me for years.
