Well yeah i'm pretty fucked, 2 days ago i noticed that the password for my email account had been altered and they'd changed nearly all the recovery details and now gmail refuses to accept my other email as a recovery one so my gmail is pretty much entirely fucked, and yesterday i tried logging on steam and boom someone has changed the password for that as well. To get a hijacked steam account back, i need to have access to my hacked email which i can't get into. By the way they both have different passwords and i have never given my password out to anyone so it must be a keylogger or a virus attached to firefox which can see all my passwords or something. Can anyone give advice on how the fuck i can get these back? Steam account has a load of games and my email is used for nearly everything.
Lol ur fucked.
Contact gmail about your issue and see if they can do anything about it. They usually can do so by checking the events vs IP, and information change from a remote IP in a short period of time definitely raises a red flag for them.
Also, why exactly do you need that exact account for your steam recovery?
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Also, why exactly do you need that exact account for your steam recovery?[/QUOTE]
At a guess, it was verified to the account? Verification works all well and true until someone has access to the email and the steam account, then you're fucked.
[QUOTE=KFrohman;28541500]At a guess, it was verified to the account? Verification works all well and true until someone has access to the email and the steam account, then you're fucked.[/QUOTE]
exactly this, anything steam does to help me retrieve my account will just be sent to my lost email account.
[QUOTE=Gareth;28541737]exactly this, anything steam does to help me retrieve my account will just be sent to my lost email account.[/QUOTE]
Looks like you're fucked.
Couldn't he provide proof that he owns the games on steam and request the new info get sent somewhere else?
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28541467]Contact gmail about your issue and see if they can do anything about it. They usually can do so by checking the events vs IP, and information change from a remote IP in a short period of time definitely raises a red flag for them.
Also, why exactly do you need that exact account for your steam recovery?[/QUOTE]
Gmail won't do shit. I've tried recovering an old email over ten times, and they keep telling me to provide more accurate information.
Contact Steam Support, tell them that your Steam account has been hijacked, provide them scans of your CD-Keys and/or your credit card number's last 4 digits.
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Tell them that your Gmail account got hijacked too, and do this after you have your Gmail account back.
[QUOTE=Zet;28542082]Gmail won't do shit. I've tried recovering an old email over ten times, and they keep telling me to provide more accurate information.[IMG]http://bestcasinogamingonline.com/crunk/37/543.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I had that experience too. it's so hard to retrieve email accounts with no success.
well fuck so thanks to gmail i could pretty much lose my steam account? I still have all the cdkeys that my steam account was created from as well as paypal receipts and a couple of other cdkeys that are linked to the account.
The cd keys and receipts should be enough to get your Steam account back
It'd be a good idea to take all your other things that use that email onto a different address
Save your order codes. Trust me, It helps. A lot. I've gotten hacked at least 3 times and the order codes saved my ass every time. Steam Support is usually very good, so try that if you have those.
Read my PM, it has instructions on how to get your account back
Not trying to sound like a dick, but this is another reason to host your own email. You should look into it in future.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;28547669]Not trying to sound like a dick, but this is another reason to host your own email. You should look into it in future.[/QUOTE]
That's a very stupid and unpractical idea for an average user to do.
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;28547669]Not trying to sound like a dick, but this is another reason to host your own email. You should look into it in future.[/QUOTE]
Yeah sure, everyone needs to have his/her own mail server else they'll be hacked! :downs:
Have a heart. I hope this never happens to me.
[QUOTE=VistaPOWA;28547711]Yeah sure, everyone needs to have his/her own mail server else they'll be hacked! :downs:[/QUOTE]
You can't invert what I said like that. Running your own server means you won't have to fight with Google to get your account back (I have a friend that tried for months to recover an important gmail account and never got it back, and has continued to suffer all kinds of identity and other fraud since). It does not stop you getting 'hacked' in the first place.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28547691]That's a very stupid and unpractical idea for an average user to do.[/QUOTE]
True, but there are plenty of tutorials out there
[QUOTE=Darkimmortal;28547669]Not trying to sound like a dick, but this is another reason to host your own email. You should look into it in future.[/QUOTE]
Sometimes I think you're an alt of Rizzo.
[QUOTE=B!N4RY;28547691]That's a very stupid and unpractical idea for an average user to do.[/QUOTE]
$10/y gets me a domain(Can probably get it cheaper). I use GMail with that which gets me full control over everything. One account for admin, another account for actual email. If somehow the email account gets "hacked" I can login to the admin account and change the password.
Or just don't use the same password for different accounts? And don't use simple passwords. I use a 20 random letters and numbers for things that actually matter.
[QUOTE=QuikKill;28557618]Or just don't use the same password for different accounts? And don't use simple passwords. I use a 20 random letters and numbers for things that actually matter.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Gareth;28541045][b]By the way they both have different passwords[/b][/QUOTE]
:colbert:
Damn that's some nasty luck there
hope you get them back.
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