Google hacked account

Post by jayess » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 1:50 PM UTC

farski wrote: post #45

coldpie wrote: post #33

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Genuinely asking: is there a paid email provider roughly on par with Google's offerings in terms of usability and uptime? I'd consider switching.

If you need all the features of Gmail or Inbox, probably not. If you can get by with what IMAP has to offer, FastMail has been very solid for me. I pay about $50 a year for a single account, which can support lots (unlimited?) domains and addresses (both sending and receiving). The web UI is nice, and the iOS app is pretty good, too. They also blog a lot about what they are doing on the technical side, and seem reall…

Post by mark-r » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 1:53 PM UTC

giarc wrote: post #97

hmoghnie wrote: post #46

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no i set another email. but still both emails will get the link.

Is the person that hacked the account just sitting there waiting for emails to come in and hopefully can click the "Cancel Request" before you can reset the password?

Post by myth_buster » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 1:58 PM UTC

philtar wrote: post #73

kazinator wrote: post #55

> What to do? The first step would be to edit the title of your submission to begin with "Ask HN: hacked Google account, what to do?", since you're asking a question. "Google hacked account" means, to an English speaker, that Google perpetrated hacking against some account somewhere (subject-verb-object, right?) E.g. Google people gained access to your bank account. I.e. your current submission title is clickbait.

That's the least relevant thing you can tell someone with 130+ points and 60+ comments.

Post by andybak » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 2:04 PM UTC

fixermark wrote: post #93

andybak wrote: post #6

Try posting to Hacker News in the hope someone with some authority deigns to intervene. It helps if you a high-profile blogger or known industry luminary. The prospects for the rest of us are fairly bleak.

> The prospects for the rest of us are fairly bleak Mostly because if changing ownership of a Gmail account were as simple as "Post to Hacker News and complain," it'd be an obvious and exploitable security gap.

Post by toxicFork » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 2:07 PM UTC

deadmik3 wrote: post #31

topynate wrote: post #29

Hm, I'd try timing the request so that it's the middle of the night wherever the thief lives. Try once assuming that he lives in America, once assuming Eastern Europe.

This may not be the quickest result, but the basic idea of just trying & trying & trying... until you eventually beat the hacker sounds almost like a game.