Google hacked account • Hacker News Board

If your account is part of Google Apps for Education, or some other managed Google Apps account, you should contact your Google Apps admin. If it's just a normal Google account, I'm not sure there's much more that you can do.

Email is the most sought after account. All the password reset requests to your Bank, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are delivered to your email account. So when someone steals your email account, they've stolen all the others too. Go change those accounts to use your new email (if you can).

Re: Google hacked account

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Post by frosttt » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 12:08 PM UTC

Have you tried the forums? If so, could you point me to the post, please?

Re: Google hacked account

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Post by cainoniac » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 12:09 PM UTC

FredericJ wrote: post #18

The issue is that you're not Google's client. Maybe buy something from them (a large amount of ads), then try to get support?

Remember: We're not Google's clients, we're Google's products

Re: Google hacked account

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Post by hmoghnie » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 12:09 PM UTC

w8rbt wrote: post #24

If your account is part of Google Apps for Education, or some other managed Google Apps account, you should contact your Google Apps admin. If it's just a normal Google account, I'm not sure there's much more that you can do. Email is the most sought after account. All the password reset requests to your Bank, Twitter, Facebook, etc. are delivered to your email account. So when someone steals your email account, they…

you are absolutely right.

Re: Google hacked account

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Post by flanbiscuit » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 12:10 PM UTC

finnjohnsen2 wrote: post #20

You had two step verification, or not? I'm hoping you'll say no, because my feeling of security comes from the fact I've enabled TSV.

second this! Hope it's a no

Re: Google hacked account

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Post by topynate » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 12:16 PM UTC

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.

Re: Google hacked account

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Post by benihana » Tue, Jun 30, 2015, 12:17 PM UTC

cainoniac wrote: post #26

FredericJ wrote: post #18

The issue is that you're not Google's client. Maybe buy something from them (a large amount of ads), then try to get support?

Remember: We're not Google's clients, we're Google's products

Please stop repeating this intellectually lazy and false meme. Or go to reddit; platitudes that don't require critical thinking tend to do better there.