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Okay, I'm Back... (Discord Restored)
a year ago
Alright, now that that's squashed, I can explain WTF happened...
Tl:dr - Be careful what you click, even if you get it from a friend/contact that you converse with regularly. But if you fall victim to a scheme, act immediately and you might be able to turn it around just as quickly as the trap was sprung. Protect your person, your loved ones, your info, your wallets, and your biscuits. Love y'all <3
Yes, I got hacked. What happened is that someone on my friend-list on Discord, whom was also a victim themselves, sent me a link to an "indie game they were developing", I think called Kyrazon, or Kryazon, or something like that. I don't think these were bot responses, either. It wans't just "Here! Play my game, pretty please! <trap-link>", we did have a little conversation that morning. After-which, they sent me a link to the website where they had the download for the game, as well as a trailer on YouTube. Like, the link wasn't just a blank page where it says "DOWNLOAD NOW TO TRY MY NEW GAME", no, it looked like an actual webpage with a well-painted banner and screenshots, and the trailer ACTUALLY looked like a game in development. These fuckers actually made a trailer and graphics for a game as false proof of its existence just to lure their victims in! Though in retrospect, a single trailer doesn't really mean much nowdays anymore (*CoughTheDayBeforeCough*... >w>) Anyways, upon downloading the zip file and unpacking anything - BAM, I done got got. Discord logged out, and upon trying to log back in, the email doesn't exist.
Immediately after the fact - I submitted a trouble ticket to Discord to tell them I was hacked, and I got a trouble ticket number a few hours later. I didn't expect to hear anything else from them for at least a few weeks, but out of my own curiosity, this morning, I tried resetting the password again, and this time I actually received a password reset for the account. Which I quickly changed not only the password, but the email linked to the account as well, just in case. I didn't get an email or response from Discord, but someone did something, and they did it pretty damn fast. Which if funny considering I did read quite a few articles where some people took upwards of two months to get their accounts back.
Doesn't look like TOO much damage was done, but I can already see a few friends and servers are missing from my account, but I can add them back. Most likely the ones that actually combated the hacker and put the word out. Thanks for that, btw, and thanks for realizing it wasn't me at the time - and for all the rude words y'all gave them. To all the friends and contacts I have on Discord (if you're reading this this far into the journal, I'm sorry my carelessness of my actions put the accounts and information of my friends at jeopardy. While I am irritated that I fell into a trap with some clear red flags, I'm 10x pissed that my account was being used to spread and corrupt my friends. But I'm thankful it wasn't worse and that I'm back in control.
For now, though, I'm going into monitoring status and damage control of my Discord account for a few days, just to clean up the dirty milk I spilled. Make sure none of my other accounts got mucked up, too. Be careful out there, friends! Be safe and be smart - atleast safer and smarter than I was, anyways. And if you do find yourself in a similar situation, don't sit and mule over it - report it quickly, and tell everyone to the best of your ability.
Alright, that's all. It's 6:08 AM and I need breakfast. Love y'all!
Oh yeah. To the Hacker that got me and Chibs - I kindly pray you step on a rusty nail, YA SCRIPT KIDDY SCRUB. :3
Tl:dr - Be careful what you click, even if you get it from a friend/contact that you converse with regularly. But if you fall victim to a scheme, act immediately and you might be able to turn it around just as quickly as the trap was sprung. Protect your person, your loved ones, your info, your wallets, and your biscuits. Love y'all <3
Yes, I got hacked. What happened is that someone on my friend-list on Discord, whom was also a victim themselves, sent me a link to an "indie game they were developing", I think called Kyrazon, or Kryazon, or something like that. I don't think these were bot responses, either. It wans't just "Here! Play my game, pretty please! <trap-link>", we did have a little conversation that morning. After-which, they sent me a link to the website where they had the download for the game, as well as a trailer on YouTube. Like, the link wasn't just a blank page where it says "DOWNLOAD NOW TO TRY MY NEW GAME", no, it looked like an actual webpage with a well-painted banner and screenshots, and the trailer ACTUALLY looked like a game in development. These fuckers actually made a trailer and graphics for a game as false proof of its existence just to lure their victims in! Though in retrospect, a single trailer doesn't really mean much nowdays anymore (*CoughTheDayBeforeCough*... >w>) Anyways, upon downloading the zip file and unpacking anything - BAM, I done got got. Discord logged out, and upon trying to log back in, the email doesn't exist.
Immediately after the fact - I submitted a trouble ticket to Discord to tell them I was hacked, and I got a trouble ticket number a few hours later. I didn't expect to hear anything else from them for at least a few weeks, but out of my own curiosity, this morning, I tried resetting the password again, and this time I actually received a password reset for the account. Which I quickly changed not only the password, but the email linked to the account as well, just in case. I didn't get an email or response from Discord, but someone did something, and they did it pretty damn fast. Which if funny considering I did read quite a few articles where some people took upwards of two months to get their accounts back.
Doesn't look like TOO much damage was done, but I can already see a few friends and servers are missing from my account, but I can add them back. Most likely the ones that actually combated the hacker and put the word out. Thanks for that, btw, and thanks for realizing it wasn't me at the time - and for all the rude words y'all gave them. To all the friends and contacts I have on Discord (if you're reading this this far into the journal, I'm sorry my carelessness of my actions put the accounts and information of my friends at jeopardy. While I am irritated that I fell into a trap with some clear red flags, I'm 10x pissed that my account was being used to spread and corrupt my friends. But I'm thankful it wasn't worse and that I'm back in control.
For now, though, I'm going into monitoring status and damage control of my Discord account for a few days, just to clean up the dirty milk I spilled. Make sure none of my other accounts got mucked up, too. Be careful out there, friends! Be safe and be smart - atleast safer and smarter than I was, anyways. And if you do find yourself in a similar situation, don't sit and mule over it - report it quickly, and tell everyone to the best of your ability.
Alright, that's all. It's 6:08 AM and I need breakfast. Love y'all!
Oh yeah. To the Hacker that got me and Chibs - I kindly pray you step on a rusty nail, YA SCRIPT KIDDY SCRUB. :3
Pichu-Kun
~pichu-kun
Got chu bro! In a bit imma unblock your your sccount so you can add me back x3
Wotter16
~wotter16
Unblocked & readded :)
Effra
~effra
Glad to hear it was solved. Not sure if you still have me on Discord though. ^^;
HamtaroSonicHedgehog
~hamtarosonichedgehog
I will admit, even I was surprised that they're actually going further with the scam by actually providing gameplay footages. (I'm convinced that game they tried to showcase was probably another game that exists, but listing it under a different name. XD) Usually they would just ask if you could test a game out and that would be it, they send you the files and that would be the end of it, so this was certainly an unexpected surprise that they are going further by actually providing a youtube link. But even despite that, I still had my suspicions as I said earlier. Good to know I was actually right.
