| Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/12/12 8:25 AM | My youtube account was recently hacked into and taken over, I lost all my videos and revenue sharing that was set up. This person hacked into it, deleted everything to use it for his own personal site for some weird reason instead of just getting hi |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 6/13/12 12:55 PM | yes, you can certainly change your password, but only if it hasn't been changed by the hacker, and the chances are that it has. just click the down arrow next to your username and choose "settings". then the "change password" is the second option, af |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/13/12 1:23 PM | The problem with this is that since its linked with google it directs me to the google accounts password but the original password of the youtube account remains unchanged. I need a way to change or delete this so I wont have any issue. The old pass |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | PeggyK | 6/13/12 1:55 PM | Your password for your YouTube account is the same as the password for the associated Google account. There are no separate YouTube passwords. That means you need to secure the associated Google account to prevent the hacker from re-accessing it. |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | PeggyK | 6/13/12 1:57 PM | And once you are sure you have full control of the associated Google account and the YouTube account, you can use this form to contact YouTube support:https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/request.py?&contact_type=linkissue In the "additional infor |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/13/12 4:23 PM | First thing to know is I had my youtube account first before i ever got the gmail so it was a separate account until everything was merged. Also can you please explain this to me then, after the hacker came in and deleted all of my things he took ove |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | PeggyK | 6/13/12 9:44 PM | So you have complete control of the YouTube account now? If so, submit this form as I suggested: https://support.google.com/youtube/bin/request.py?&contact_type=linkissue |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/14/12 4:44 AM | I don't have complete control because the hacker probably has my old password and could easily unlink my account again just as I did to him, I want a way to prevent this by permanently attaching it to a google account because he may be able to get in |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | PeggyK | 6/14/12 10:17 AM | Unfortunately I don't think there is any way to completely shut off the ability to move the YouTube account to a different Google account, since that ability is only an option for a fraction of existing YouTube accounts. Have you signed out of all |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 6/15/12 6:41 PM | <This message has been deleted.> |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 6/17/12 2:55 PM | if you have access to your youtube account, try what i said... on your youtube channel, just click the down arrow next to your username and choose "settings". then the "change password" is the second option, after the "change avatar". change the pa |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/17/12 8:02 PM | I tried moving access to a different account it requires a google account but with this vulnerability there still is a chance i could lose my account. Is there a way to move all of the information over to a new google account then reload all of the i |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | PeggyK | 6/18/12 10:02 AM | If you have the option to move your YouTube channel to a different Google account, then you can do that. But whatever you decide to do, you need to lock down the Google account your YouTube channel is associated with. |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/18/12 10:58 AM | The problem is after I locked down the account with a new password and the 2 step verification, the account can still be moved with the old password. |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | 888doghunter888 | 6/19/12 7:22 AM | its easy. to prevent the hacker. sign in to your old and new email and change the password somthing easy because you will change it later. step 2 sign in to your youtube account and change that password it is also a good idea to take off your phone # |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/19/12 7:54 AM | I have a few problems with what you are proposing. First I ended up getting my youtube account back by using the unlink feature and moving it into a stand alone account. The unlink feature can still be used which is how i got ti back from the hacker |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 6/20/12 9:14 AM | I did just get my google account back but was unable to get any messages back I added the 2 step security but the youtube account is still vulnerable. |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/1/12 10:50 AM | please let us know if the hacker gets back in and does anything. i think you deserve staff attention if this happens. |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 7/1/12 7:07 PM | I do appreciate it but I would of rather been able to get my videos back, I was generating needed revenue and my video was posted in so many location to help generate traffic, I cant remember all the locations it was posted and It wont have the same |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/5/12 2:19 PM | hmmm, getting videos back is always the difficult part. we see so many users who haven't kept copies of them. maybe youtube should flash up a message saying "SAVE YOUR VIDEO TO YOUR COMPUTER BEFORE UPLOADING", but then again, a lot of videos are alre |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 7/9/12 7:01 AM | Getting the video file back is not a problem, I originally posted that video on a ton of websites and places to help generate traffic, If I repost the video I am not going to get the numbers of that video again, also all the comments and messages I g |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/10/12 1:49 PM | yes, since you put it that way - that the hacker has cost you money - it's frustrating for me just to read about it. if you knew who the hacker was, you might have been able to sue for loss of earnings. there is a legal form you can fill in, but it's |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 7/10/12 1:59 PM | Well when i got my youtube account back from unlinking it, I saw his email that he used to attach my youtube account to his email address because he wanted to use it for some stupid reason. Also when I got my google account back I got the IP address |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | MSIR60 (The Original) | 7/11/12 1:34 PM | it is unbelievable, until you've been on these forums for some time. then we become brainwashed into just accepting stuff that is actually unacceptable. you do have one last resort, and that is getting a top contributor to pass this up to a youtube e |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | Birzarker | 7/17/12 12:25 PM | How do I go about doing that? I don't see anywhere to post this to for Peggy to take a look at it. |
| Re: Youtube account compromised!!! | PeggyK | 7/20/12 9:14 AM |