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My account has been stolen!!

A topic by Johnblake created Mar 23, 2020 Views: 841 Replies: 6
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Hello.


I sent an email to itch.io support as fast as I could... My account has somehow been stolen.

I came to the computer about 20 minutes ago, and checked my email as usual and there was one of those "reset password" emails, from itch.io, received about an hour ago. I thought nothing of it, but I still went on itch.io to change my password to a more secure one. Only to find out I was logged out.

So I tried logging in and it wouldn't work. Wrong password. Somehow the hacker had managed to get the link to reset the password. Perhaps the token from the link??

So I tried to retrieve my password. And it said my email was NOT in the database?!!?

I need help ASAP please!


Thank you for reading

Moderator(+1)

I've let our admins know. It would help if you said what the stolen account is. 

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Thank you, although... I think they just deleted it... <x> Does... does itch.io keep stuff saved in DB for a while??

Moderator(+1)

Not to my knowledge, sorry. But you should wait for someone who knows better.

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While you're waiting, definitely change your email password if you haven't already.

I did, changed every email and every account to a unique one at least 24 characters long. :(

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Itch.io has replied to my email yesterday asking for some information and I'm still waiting for a reply since :( my Deviantart was also affect and it's the same story... costumer support is so slow... websites should really have a failsafe for email changes, I wouldn't have noticed my itch account gone if the hacker hadn't requested pw before guessing it :/

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