Massive thank you to the devs for restoring my account. It took $25 out of my pocket (And $25 is more than enough to buy me an entire month's worth of groceries where I'm at) but it was a small thing to pay for getting it back up and running.
And may what happened to me be a reminder to everyone else in account security. Use good or strong passwords, never use the same password across multiple sites, and write them down somewhere secure should you end up forgetting what they are.
Another thing..
No matter what they say to you, no matter what they do, as long as you know well that your conscience is clear, you know you're not wrong, and you know you haven't done any legitimate harm to those around you, you're not obliged to answer to them for what you've done
Stay in your lane. If anyone needs help, give help. If anyone wants to bump you off, hard brake and watch them hit the side of the road.
I don't have to set up shop again from scratch. We're back in business.
Context to anyone who wasn't aware, this account got broken into and deleted by persons/a person who wanted me to disappear. Most likely for my Genshin Impact livery submissions (Or possibly just my build modification posts in general)
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I'm mad thankful to the devs for getting it all back (including some builds I forgot even existed)
@Nerfaddict Aside from me being able to access it during that time, fortunately, nothing else. Cause I was able to email Jundroo immediately after it got broken into.
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I was scrolling past the airplanes section when I got logged out of the site for no reason after I went to page 2. Tried logging back in but it said
Account has been deleted.@ShinyGemsBro did your account lose anything?
@ShinyGemsBro Thanks!
@starmango It takes quite some time for the devs working to get a deleted account back. There's a kind of automated data trashing process that immediately starts once an account is deleted. They had to stop that process and check whether everything I posted is still in place, then return my account to being visible on the site.
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To quote Andrew who thankfully was active and I talked to while the incident was going on:
It is a pain for us to recover an account@ShinyGemsBro uhh....... not a good idea for a password
last time an account got hacked was a couple of months ago where hillbillies from verifpro breaking into multiple accounts and turning them into ad spambots (to advertise their fishy banking website) it didn't just happened in SP tho, they also took over a poop ton of accounts in like a hundred websites. hopefully things like these won't happen again (I seriously won't want that to happen to anybody, even my enemies)
also for gods sake plz avoid anything suspicious online or that will put your account out of its misery
@ShinyGemsBro why were you CHARGED to get your account back?
@devs ur stupid
@Sm10684 Tell that to the devs
@Graingy Yeah it's fuckoffandhangyourself.
Oh cool anyways what's your new password?
@ShinyGemsBro seriously? That’s stupid!
@Sm10684 Was charged 25 bucks.
You paid the devs?
Congrats man!
@ShinyGemsBro congrats on getting your account back!
I have a fair amount of your aircraft And I was going to start archiving
@PlaneFlightX Some anime-hating asshole hacked shinygem's account and deleted it. Thankfully its finally back up.
Wait what happened?