#discord hack

[sleepyowlet]

Discord Hack PSA

So, my Discord account of over a decade was hacked yesterday.

The account has been suspended and can't do any damage any more, but not after hours of my reporting the hack. Just in case the hacker can get to you via other hacked accounts, here's their MO:

They will greet you via PM (this will be someone you had friended in the past or at least talked to) if you've got a Nitro subscription - probably with "heyhey".

Then they will ask you to partner with you in a game because they need help with a quest. I actually did ask them why the game is not on Steam because this seemed fishy to me - but I thought I knew this person! So I did as they asked and went to the page soulsthief dot com. No warning from my browser, and the site looks professional and legit. I downloaded the "game", and my antivirus did not wig out until I actually started the exe.

Now, I didn't have 2FA activated for my account - it's so old, it just slipped my mind. That is on me.

Within seconds I was locked out of my account, and the hacker enabled 2FA for it so I couldn't just go and change the password.

So I immediately sent a report to Discord support - but...nothing happened. Nothing. Only after the hacker bought a Nitro gift, my account was finally suspended. But not before hours had passed and the hacker already tried to impersonate me to get to several of my friends! One almost lost her account too but her active 2FA saved her.

So if you are a Discord Nitro user, please beware of any of your friends and contacts asking you to install a game that is not on Steam, Epic, or any other reputable platform! And please activate 2FA.

Support is a complete shitshow and won't do shit if you get hacked.

You might also want to think really well if you wanna give your banking data to a company that won't protect your information in case something happens.

[petitepaleoartist]

SCAM WARNING:

there is currently a scam going around on discord where people will pretend they accidentally reported your account and put you in contact with another user claiming to be discord support DO NOT ENGAGE WITH THEM

[aetherprism]

Discord account got hacked >:/ this sucks

If anyone dms you saying shit like “hey i accidentally reported you” and sends you an image of them contacting “discord support DO NOT CONTACT THE FAKE DISCORD SUPPORT

This image is from someone on Reddit, not me bc im unfortunately very locked out my disc account rn but LOOK OUT FOR THIS !!!!

[cabbagecrunt]

there's a new discord hack going around where you're dmed from a friend's account asking help for a project before they send you a malicious download, do not download the link and let everyone you share servers with know that account has been hacked! spread this info to all of your servers as well, awareness is the best defense against hacks like these.

[purewavelengthsoflight]

Theres a new hack going around on discord where they pretend to be your friends and tell you that your account will be banned... My sister fell victim to this and got her account taken sadly, if anyone knows how to recover a hacked account let me know.

Stay safe yall.

[goombasinastack]

MY DISCORD GOT HACKED

do NOT trust any dm's from "goombasinastack5180" do NOT trust any dm's asking for help with "me and my friend made a project, we need your help to finish" do NOT trust any random links to WINRAR or a game called "Latsuna"

[hyffae]

people need to talk about this type of hack cuz i JUST fell for it and i had no idea it was one until they started asking for stuff that very obviously was to scam me.

your friend will get hacked and then message you saying they got scammed by an impersonator and they mass-reported your acct. they'll tell you to friend an acct to convince them it was an accident. they'll have you change you email and then try and get your other info. i thankfully caught it before i gave them my bank info. it took an hour to get my discord back, but that was cuz i didn't know where to go for support. took less than 15 minutes to get it back when i got the right link.

i am just making this post cuz i had NEVER heard of this scam before. i am so lucky i decided to check reddit to see if this was a new type of scam. it's not new tho :P

[lamp-garden]

I DON'T THINK I'M GETTING MY DISCORD ACCOUNT BACK. THEY ENABLED 2FA. I CAN'T CHANGE MY PASSWORD...

Please. I want to talk to all my friends again. Does anyone have any solution. Please? I'm begging.

[tolkienlockian]

I just got scammed by this exact method and right now I'm feeling like such an idiot and on the verge of a breakdown. They texted me half an hour ago and gave me an ultimatum, that either I proceed or there will be consequences

I'm literally on edge right now, please reblog, everyone, and stay safe

DISCORD HACK BULLSHIT;

SO, today I got a message from a friend on discord saying the following;

immediately sus, no? well, I got panicky and then played into it because scammers deserve to be fucked with. so, they ask me to add this person and I do.

and then this.

long story short, be careful. check in with your friends. make sure your account is safe, don't give out your personal info and most definitely DON'T change your email to the one they asked you to changed it to.

[zillychu]

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[dearmyloveleys]

the way I can tell mdzs was written more seriously (tone wise) than the other two bc there’s no sword rental or immortal discord servers in there

[cell113]

Ough, I know you mentioned some of this to me, but FUCK that is A LOT.

I guess the best take away from this is probably to use 2FA on everything that allows it, and maybe do that offline back up code option for extra levels? Alternative emails too, like one email specifically for professional-ish stuff, one email for social media, one email for signing up for stuff. I know some folks who also have an email that's specifically for security back up, that could help a lot in the future.

Hackers are getting more and more persistent and slimey, and there's more and more vectors to fail from. It's hard, but it's worth it to keep this kind of bullshit from happening again.

🫂So sorry you're having to deal with so much stress, Shady.

I thought I had this mostly handled so I didn't want to post anything but seems the problem has come back and is being super annoying... sigh...

So beginning of the month I was hacked. They posed as a discord friend and was pretty convincing, tricked me into downloading a 'game' they made and it turned out to be a hacking tool. So they got my main email and just started taking EVERYTHING connected to it. Discord, other email account, xbox account, etc. But it was also connected to my firefox account and so they had access to all my passwords.. ugh..

I've been sick most of this month and stressed from it. Spent two weeks waiting on something from microsoft before giving up and just trying to contact them directly, like... a person and not the stupid 'self-helper' tool that couldn't do squat cuz the hacker added an authenticater to my account and the tool was like 'can't help you bro'.

Thankfully I have some superb friends on my discord, made an alt account to stay in contact otherwise I'd still be a crying mess, but they were able to get a support agent for me. They've emailed me about looking into my email being hacked, no eta yet but they're looking into it. Which is great.. Until today...

I thought the hacker was done, moved on but nope... Get a text in Turkish this morning about my Twitch code and... now my Twitch is gone, they're on my instagram talking to my friends to get in contact with me and they locked my steam account..

This FUCKER.

Like wtf!? Leave me alone, you took my email.. I'm getting it back and NO I'm not paying you to get it back you slimy scumbag.

So far the friend they contacted on instagram contacted me, said it was super sus and it really was with the messages they sent me so they trolled them a bit. Another friend made a fake discord account posing as me to talk to them and learned that this idiot can't get back onto my main discord account cuz the 2fa is on, HAH. Friend also said they sound young and frustrated, GOOD! Fuck 'em for being a piece of shit.

But yeah.. Been dealing with this all month and now it's mostly just the waiting game for Microsoft Support to look into it. Same with getting my steam account unlocked so yeah.. This has been my month of fun. Was literally just starting to feel better from this awful almost 4 week sickness and then bam... they're back to bother me.

Least I can give a warning about this new scam but they pose as a discord friend, who is already hacked, ask you to try their game, and send a link that you then download and the download does nothing. It's some kind of hacking tool that gets past everything.. my virus scan didn't even pick it up. Might be too new.

I've never been hacked like this before, but if something seems sus then just turn your computer off or unplug the internet right away. Don't be me panicking while they get away with everything... Then get your computer completely wiped and hope they didn't get into anything important. Be quick on the 'no this wasn't me who did this' sort of thing, could save you the headache down the line.. =3=

[grimme-and-specs]

You know I had to do it to 'em too

Bonus:

EDIT, 2024-4-5:

If this gets to 213 notes before 4-13 I will personally redraw this earlier than planned.

[cacti-trash]

this is a formal apology to the odd squad discord server (i am so sorry for my acc sending those links ☹️)

odd squad forms made by @/timmythetimesheep 

[peteytheparrot]

Is anyone else getting raided in their comment sections because wtf

[cryptic-eccentric]

If you receive a mesaage like this on discord do NOT click on the provided link. This is how my laptop got hacked.

Please spread this around to limit the amount of people who might wind up in the same boat as I did.