How do you get an hacked account back?

[Sableye]

Don't worry, the problem is not here. Just clearing that up.

How do you get it back?

[Kursed]

do you know the login and or e-mail it's attached to? theres' usally a  recovery option.

[Mr. Foxer]

That depends on what type of account you're talking about.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

I dunno...I guess you could write an [outside] email asking an admin for help. (I think at least one admin here has, like, a yahoo or hotmail or gmail account).

Give 'em your account info.

["User"]

Don't worry, the problem is not here. Just clearing that up.

How do you get it back?

Like others have said it depends on what type of account it is.  Is it a message board account like SFO? An online bank account or anything that requires very personal and confidential information?  Could you be a bit more specific?

If it's a forum account I'd email one of the more active admins (or if that won't work, staff) on said site or message them on msn or another IM medium (if you have their info added)

[Kursed]

Like others have said it depends on what type of account it is.  Is it a message board account like SFO? An online bank account or anything that requires very personal and confidential information?  Could you be a bit more specific?

also NEVER Give your personal information away to someone you don't know.

[Matt Macdowel]

1. hack it back

2. try some sort of recovering question thing

3. report it to admin!

[Sableye]

Guys Im just asking you.

[Guest Julius Quasar]

Guys Im just asking you.

...and we're just tellin' ya'.   :lol:

[DZComposer]

Your best course of action is to contact the people with whom you have the account. Different places have different procedures.

If the hacker changed you password, there isn't much you can do without contacting them (any hacker smart enough to change the password is smart enough the change the password recovery things like security questions and emails).

[Shinigami]

All of the above; and frankly..just hope that it never happens. someone hacked my admin account on a really old star fox place I used to run on forumer, Arwing Landing (with no knowledge of the site that went by the name back then), and basically did something where I couldn't log into the admin CP and the skin was all screwed and unfix-able. plus, all the posts had been deleted...so as you could imagine its quite a pain in the ass; if you'll pardon the language.

[Guest DRL]

It happened to me before, with my

E-Mail address. How to get it back?

Contact the service provider (Hotmail,

Yahoo, ect.) and tell that your account´s

password has been compromised.

Be warned that it is a relatively slow process,

it took me a month to get my account back.

Yes, the iraqi hacker had changed the password,

secret question and everything, but FORGOT about

the extra stuff (intererts, registering place, MSN nickname)

ect... So eventually, filling out that I could recover my account.

Note that if they seem unwilling to do it at first, tell them

something like "THAT´S IT!, I AM GOING TO GMAIL!" <(It DOES work).

Also, try to find out 'why' your account was compromised.

Actually logging in public places helps it, since you never know

if there is spyware active there....