Tonight, I signed into my DeviantArt, only to be flooded with DMs notifying me that my Discord account had been behaving very strangely, and that I'd been banned from multiple servers.

Turns out I'd been hacked. And I have no idea how, because I've not clicked on any suspicious links, downloaded any weird software, or given out any of my security details to ANYBODY. Clearly hackers are getting better and better at their pathetic excuse for a "job", or AI is making it super easy to brute force people's accounts now, no matter how secure their password is. I guess multi factor authentication really is the only protection in this dark era of technology...

Naturally, I had to spend several hours tonight purging the hacker's spam of scam Steam voucher links, and apologising to dozens of friends who had been affected by their vile filth that was made in my name. I even LOST one of my friends (Kirakumachi), because she BLOCKED me, probably thinking I'd just taken up a career in scamming people! No, that wasn't me, that wasn't me... Since Discord was the only account we were still connected (due to her leaving DA and Twitter), my only hope now is that friends with Bluesky accounts get in touch with her to let me know I'm innocent. Either that, or I'll have to make an account there myself...

I've since changed my password to a far more secure one (about double the length), and I've finally set up 2 factor authentication. As tedious as that is, at least that should prevent anything like this from happening again (and this has been the first time something like this has ever happened to me, so a learning experience for sure). Now I just need to check that all of my other online accounts haven't been compromised...

What a lovely start to my stress break... Hacker, if you are reading... We will find you, and we will ruin your life. When you're dropping bars of soap until you perish in prison, you'll regret ever having messed with me, and no doubt countless other innocent souls...