Steelgrassify
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Post by Steelgrassify on May 16, 2014 19:37:04 GMT -5
So I think everyone has heard about the heartbleed incident and hopefully you all changed your passwords, I know I did. Unfortunately, my Youtube account has been HACKED. That's right, if you were to visit my channel you'd see it now goes by the name "Hubert Cumberdale." The extent of the damage has been all but the 30 oldest videos on my channel have been deleted and my username has been changed. The worst part is that the attacker has taken over my google side of my account and so I can't access it to change my information with possibly letting the hacker to personal information. I tried changing my password but then it says the page I'm trying to access is invalid. Help anyone? I hope I can salvage most of my stuff while I still have partial access to my account.
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on May 16, 2014 20:19:18 GMT -5
Hmn, tell me more about the heartbleed incident. All i know is there is an exploit on the OpenSSL related to a "Heartbeat".
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Steelgrassify
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Post by Steelgrassify on May 16, 2014 21:27:13 GMT -5
I don't know that much about it to be honest, all I know is that some virus or something was able to access some websites information and stole millions of usernames and passwords. The actually thing has been taken care of, but the usernames and passwords are still out there.
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on May 16, 2014 21:49:06 GMT -5
Sounds like the heartbeat exploit... But well, if it is the heartbeat exploit then the hacker can only access the information stored on the servers of your google account. He can tell the password of your google account, however he can't get the password of your e-mail(Considering it isn't the same as your google account). You could attempt to reset most information through the e-mail, afterwards youtube. If it is the heartbeat then you must keep in mind he can only access what is on the google account, nothing more.
Also, an extra note i am not certain it is the "Heartbeat" exploit as such i cannot say the above will work.
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Steelgrassify
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Post by Steelgrassify on May 16, 2014 22:53:49 GMT -5
Yeah, well I've done all of that stuff already, I guess I'll just have to see if any developments happen later then.
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Post by soulred12 on May 16, 2014 23:56:49 GMT -5
I wasn't going to bother changing my passwords after heartbleed but you convinced me. ._.
Hope this gets resolved...
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Draconaitr25
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Post by Draconaitr25 on May 18, 2014 8:30:04 GMT -5
And this is why I putting the same password is a bad idea. I'm gonna go and change it, Thanks for the warning and thousands of lucks to you.
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SpiderMan2099
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Post by SpiderMan2099 on May 18, 2014 13:55:58 GMT -5
Only crap. i did not know of this... time to make a superlong password.
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Steelgrassify
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Post by Steelgrassify on May 18, 2014 14:40:55 GMT -5
I think the situation is mostly resolved as far as my case, I was able to access my Google+ account finally and change my name and stuff back. I changed my password and stuff so hopefully this won't happen again. Unfortunatly, I did lose all but my first 30 or so videos on my channel, which REALLY sucks. It could be worse, I could have lost my whole channel.
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Post by Aquablast on May 18, 2014 16:25:53 GMT -5
I am glad that you got control over your account again, but it is a shame all of those videos were deleted. Hackers are low life idiots and I am sorry that they hacked your account.
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Post by SpiderMan2099 on May 18, 2014 20:01:43 GMT -5
I think the situation is mostly resolved as far as my case, I was able to access my Google+ account finally and change my name and stuff back. I changed my password and stuff so hopefully this won't happen again. Unfortunatly, I did lose all but my first 30 or so videos on my channel, which REALLY sucks. It could be worse, I could have lost my whole channel. Good to hear it was cleared. Same on the videos though, don't you have a back up saved, or where you not prepared and already deleted the video after upload?
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Wolf Prince
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Post by Wolf Prince on May 18, 2014 20:59:58 GMT -5
I am glad that you got control over your account again, but it is a shame all of those videos were deleted. Hackers are low life idiots and I am sorry that they hacked your account. Not all the hackers are the same. White hat hackers are actually a type of hackers which help improve security of several companies and web services.
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Post by soulred12 on May 19, 2014 0:44:22 GMT -5
I am glad that you got control over your account again, but it is a shame all of those videos were deleted. Hackers are low life idiots and I am sorry that they hacked your account. Not all the hackers are the same. White hat hackers are actually a type of hackers which help improve security of several companies and web services. And then you have Facebook "hackers" =p Anyway, I'm sure he specifically meant hackers who break in and steal data or take over accounts.
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Steelgrassify
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Post by Steelgrassify on May 19, 2014 15:41:33 GMT -5
I think the situation is mostly resolved as far as my case, I was able to access my Google+ account finally and change my name and stuff back. I changed my password and stuff so hopefully this won't happen again. Unfortunatly, I did lose all but my first 30 or so videos on my channel, which REALLY sucks. It could be worse, I could have lost my whole channel. Good to hear it was cleared. Same on the videos though, don't you have a back up saved, or where you not prepared and already deleted the video after upload? Well I did have them backed up, which leads me to another reason I've been busy is because the computer I originally put the videos on the hard drives and some of the other peripherals stopped working. So yeah... I really have no way of replacing them.
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Draconaitr25
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Post by Draconaitr25 on May 22, 2014 17:26:29 GMT -5
*Descends* Maybe I'm late but check this out. New York Times says: "US charges chinese military hackers with espionage". Havent read it though, so its worth the try to see. *Flies away*
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