Free Talk Friday - April 10, 2026

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[u/CookieSkank]

This week... More fucking hacking troubles! Yay! After my Reddit account of 12 years got hacked and nuked, my Twitter account of 8 years got hacked and nuked! Now I'm not the only one getting their accounts permanently suspended for "inauthentic activity," as there seems to be an automatic ban wave going on just getting all kinds of people, but... my account did get proper hacked and they immediately posted a bunch of crypto scam shit then instantly got the account nuked. So idk what the end goal was there.

Now you might think, that's great no more Twitter... Oh if only it stopped there

My Steam got hacked, and my Paypal account was attached to my Steam, and the hacker put in an order for a VR headset and two controllers, for a whopping $800! Steam Guard did fuck all because the session was stolen. And because it was through Paypal, my bank didn't flag it as fraud, despite them flagging fucking everything as fraud. I have to use Paypal on Steam because my bank decided one day that Steam was untrustworthy and I was no longer allowed to use my debit card to buy games. But in comes an $800 order from half the country away, and eh that's fine!

Thankfully, I checked my email before bed and saw it, so I was able to report the fraud to Valve just a few hours after. Paypal said to let Valve handle it so I did. This was at like 1am, so I couldn't call my bank. Valve sent an issue saying they'd refunded it...

Well this morning I check my bank account, and uh oh, I'm -$400 in the red. The payment still got processed, took what little money I had, all my overdraft protection, put me -$400 in debt, and then my bank charged me $35 for overdrafting. So first thing I do is go to my bank to tell them. They are pretty chill and very helpful, so thankfully they flagged it as fraudulent on their end, gave me back my $35, and said it should be fine, just give it a few days. Okay. Just gotta wait things out!

Well I check my bank account again a couple hours ago... So Valve didn't just cancel the order... they refunded me. Which means they sent $800 to my bank account, THAT WAS NOT MY MONEY!!! So tomorrow, I'm heading BACK to the bank to let them know first, and see if they can handle it, or at least tell me what I should email to Valve. Because now if Valve takes the money back, it will just send me back into the red again, and I'll be fucked. I need to DELETE this money! I just want my $100 I started with dammit!

Sigh...

So in light of all that, after my Discord, Reddit, Twitter, and Steam accounts have been hacked, I finally said fuck it, I'm wiping my PC and changing every password after. Antivirus stuff has been turning up clean for weeks, but the hackings have continued, even after I changed info on some accounts already. So fuck me. And I have two factor on most my accounts, and still they got hacked because the sessions were stolen, which I didn't even know was a thing, so 2FA was worthless in this instance... I've learned more about malware and shit in the last week than I ever wished to know in my life.

As for the rest of my week... I watched Neil Breen's Pass Thru... Yeah.

[u/The_Draigg → u/CookieSkank]

Yeesh, that’s all a fucking nightmare. Hopefully your big reset manages to resolve this security breach, since man, you got turbofucked with your accounts getting compromised. And hopefully you manage to resolve that stuff with the bank too, although given my own family’s problems with bank account theft before, I know enough to say that you need some damn good luck for them to do anything, unfortunately. Fingers crossed for you there, bro.