Is it just me or has there been a major uptick in people getting hacked lately? I've been noticing since like May with everyone losing their Gmail, Discord, Twitter, YouTube, Steam, etc. All this shit is apparently stemming from third/fourth worlders on Telegram who are selling off other people's accounts they've stolen just so they can recycle the same handful of scams onto other people.>MrBeast's brand new crypto casino>Hey I accidentally reported your Steam account>Watch anime with me on this suspicious fucking app you've never heard of>Download and launch this Minecraft mod pack, it's not a cookie stealer>Visit this absolutely bogus fucking link to upvote my TF2 Workshop submission that's not actually on the Workshop>You lost your account? Me and 20 other people on the same brainwave recommend this tech support guy with a Twitter account that hasn't posted in 8 years until nowHacking has apparently become easier than ever because of "malware as a service" as well as the majority of major tech companies refusing to give a shit about you losing your stuff. Google is the worst offender on that front because they literally have zero customer support without having to resort to sending a notice of intent to their legal department or filing a complaint through your attorney general's office.All these hacks are getting no attention anywhere outside of at least one collaboration of Microsoft and Interpol taking down some infostealer creators last week. The internet fucking sucks and is a complete nightmare to use even more than usual.
>>109179578I can personally attest to this because both my yahoo emails, two of my gmails and my steam / xbox accounts had attempted hijacks since late last year. I dont use password managers, all my passwords are above 20 characters and written on plain paper. The one good thing in the current year is companies are smart enough to lock people out unless they're logging in from a specific local range of IP, otherwise i'd have been fucked.also I got a notice in the mail Im eligible to push comcast for 10k in damages for their hack that happened back in 2023
>>109179578Any info which OS these hacked people are using?
>>109179578I forgot to mention a recurring strategy these people use known as the Family Link exploit, wherein if an account of yours is linked to a Google account, they will change your password and age so you're suddenly a kid, which then they will set themselves as your parent account so that you have no feasible way of logging in to fix everything. I've heard that this has been going on for over a year with Google refusing to comment on or acknowledge it because helping people fix this specific scenario is just too hard.Google's Account Center is beyond worthless because you ask for help and a Platinum Diamond Tier "expert" (never an employee) tells you that there's nothing that can be done before your thread is forever buried by millions of Indians getting their accounts hacked and not even attempting to speak English.>>109179637Steam especially is where I've had to stop talking to people who message me out of the blue and try to enact a casual "hey can we talk?" conversation as if we've just met on the street. If you have something to tell me in private, spit it out.>>109179651I'm guessing Windows is the most affected of the lot since Linux only recently got updated with support for viruses.
