Not the rprepository account. Im trying to find someone who could help or suggest things I could do. It started a while back, where someone has been going through my accounts. Gmail, Discord, Instagram. Those three, for now. I've changed my password for all three, even done it twice. But for some reason, this mystery person keeps getting into my Discord. Nothing sketchy in my emails, but my password keeps getting resetted by someone else and they sent spam messages to my friends and even servers. Does anyone know how to deal with it? Would hard resetting the device get rid of it permanently?
I didnt open any weird link, none I could think of. Although I do remember downloading some game apps I cant normally access because my region. Those of which I downloaded on my tab. (I do remember accidentally clicking on some random download that appeared before the actual download link appeared. But that was at least a year ago before this happened)
Another possibilty is that the Malware is from our family computer. It could be that one of my family members opened some links and it affected the whole computer, which also happened with my sister because she also had someone go through her accounts. However, no one else had the same problem as us.
I didnt open any weird link, none I could think of. Although I do remember downloading some game apps I cant normally access because my region. Those of which I downloaded on my tab. (I do remember accidentally clicking on some random download that appeared before the actual download link appeared. But that was at least a year ago before this happened)
Another possibilty is that the Malware is from our family computer. It could be that one of my family members opened some links and it affected the whole computer, which also happened with my sister because she also had someone go through her accounts. However, no one else had the same problem as us.
Are you able to get two-factor authentication for your accounts?
Hi there,
If it did start on your Gmail account, this is the place to look first, as I suppose that you use the gmail for Discord and Instagram.
I got that one years ago once and had many difficulties to get my hotmail account back. It's a bot that intrudes in your account and searches through your contacts to find others. An effective way to hinder those is a first fake email address in your contact list. The bot is discouraged at first failure to connect and stops. First contact be like aaaa.aaaaa@aaa.aa, the bot doesn't recognize fake emails.
And as same address is used in different account applications, the 'weak' security profits to such intruders. If ever you used same pass at different sites, it's likely that the bot breaks it easily.
Moonbiter is right, secure password with multiple authentication and good nice wipeout of malware on all your devices. You'll be horrified if you never did such 'cleaning'. Your passwords, if you have them on your computer must be secure, triple authentication if possible.
Else change E-mail address for specific applications and use that new one only for those apps, if you need an email for downloading something, make another one without any contacts, just for downloading. It's very normal to have like 4 addresses, your main is kept clean, and one is like bombarded with spam and nonsense, without any consequences. Your computer/phone has specific app to 'gather' all e-mails but going through different firewalls and not 'on-device'
If it did start on your Gmail account, this is the place to look first, as I suppose that you use the gmail for Discord and Instagram.
I got that one years ago once and had many difficulties to get my hotmail account back. It's a bot that intrudes in your account and searches through your contacts to find others. An effective way to hinder those is a first fake email address in your contact list. The bot is discouraged at first failure to connect and stops. First contact be like aaaa.aaaaa@aaa.aa, the bot doesn't recognize fake emails.
And as same address is used in different account applications, the 'weak' security profits to such intruders. If ever you used same pass at different sites, it's likely that the bot breaks it easily.
Moonbiter is right, secure password with multiple authentication and good nice wipeout of malware on all your devices. You'll be horrified if you never did such 'cleaning'. Your passwords, if you have them on your computer must be secure, triple authentication if possible.
Else change E-mail address for specific applications and use that new one only for those apps, if you need an email for downloading something, make another one without any contacts, just for downloading. It's very normal to have like 4 addresses, your main is kept clean, and one is like bombarded with spam and nonsense, without any consequences. Your computer/phone has specific app to 'gather' all e-mails but going through different firewalls and not 'on-device'