How did you get hacked in first place?

I'm not sure. I don't click on random links, and it's pretty easy to tell who's been hacked, especially whent hey don't have the same cadence, or you trip them up with easy lies. But I never click links, and if someone sends me something that seems off, if I have another way to contact them, I do, if I don't, I block. From what we were able to find, it is likely due to that massive discord data breach that has affected thousands.

From what I gather, a lot of people got their data hacked. Particularly over here in the UK where we now have those age verification laws, with many people much worse off than me. That whole verification system left a lot of sites and apps very vulnerable. I didn't use my own face, I used a picture of someone else back when that was the only thing they asked before all the added "look left, look right, open mouth" nonsense was added.

I was able to recover it quickly because I don't use the same passwords for any financial sites, or use passwords that are similar across multiople important sites, especially if they have my financial information. My email passwords are different from each other, and from other socials, and messengers.

I even had 2FA turned on for discord. Is it a faff? Yes. But I always thought it'd keep me safe. Somehow they were able to brute force past this. So I added extra security. But I also imagine because I don't use the same password for discord or my email, they weren't able to get much more than just my discord.

But I now understand why Discord has a class action suit against them because the fact that they managed to brute force past my 2FA means the site/app is very vulnerable. And this alone makes me mad.

I see.

I use the Google one, yeah. Glad you got it fixed.

That's the one I use. I figure this is likely a one off due to that data breach but the fact that they were able to brute force past this, kinda makes me agnry ngl.

I was so worried last night when you sent me those random screenshots. I'm glad you got your discord back and I'm sorry that happened to you.

Yeah, if i were to send anything out of context it's usually a meme or a derp drawing. Not some crypto bro bullshit XD

Oof

Just as I suspected. I received a very sus message from your discord account last night and immediately knew it wasn't really you.

Yeah, it wasn't even a decent hack it was just some pictures of crypto bro shit D:<

And they did it when i was asleep. Very rude.

But either way I added more pins, and verification. That alone has me mad because I've been so busy I haven't even had the chance to even talk to anyone let alone click a link lmao. But that said, have you heard about the massive data breach?

The one that has Discord seeing a class action lawsuit?

There are people worse off than me because from what I gather hackers are now ransoming this information.

Yeah, that's what set off my sussometer XD

I heard about the data breach and was waiting for when it was going to happen. It's one of the reasons why I never "verify" my age anywhere on the internet. We can all blame the UK online safety act for this complete catastrophe. All our sensitive information is being stored across the internet in multiple server locations. Lesser sites based abroad that can't afford to implement age verification measures will have to block UK users. Sites that can afford to implement measures may have sub standard protocols, meaning, you guessed it... data leaks. And the probability of data leaks only going to increase.

Yeah, fantastic. The information we were once told to keep private is now being thrown around like confetti under the pretence of "safety". Now it can be used to blackmail and commit fraud. Someone please make this make sense.

I did use Authy, but they're now very limited in what devices can be used for that app, so I have to use the google one instead.

I use google authenticator and it does okay for the most part

yeah, ever since the major Leak, there was a hacker who reached out to a Youtuber [No Text to speech or NTTS for short] and explained about how ANY tickets submitted in the past, ether it be for payment issues, recently hacked accounts from before, basically anything ticket related, and he proved this by showing the youtuber is own tickets. Apparently tickets were never fully cleaned from Discords database, at least not the more personal ones. And because the new verification, hackers looked at this like a yummy all you can eat buffet and one managed to gain access to it all, which was the one who reached out to NTTS. i think 70,000 ID's were stolen along with 2,100,000+ accounts at risk. It makes it worse because those 70,000 are NOT 18+ users ether. which makes it even more dangerous now.

These companies are full of idiots. 2FA does nothing for your security if their servers get leaked.

I'm really, really getting sick of having to deal with e-mail verification codes and phone calls all the time.