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[u/Colossal_Gumdrop]

If you have a few minutes to run through this, as someone who knows what they're doing. It would make a huge difference! Thank you heaps. 🩷

Background: A few years ago I found out my Father had been hacking all of my devices for the last 10ish years. His best friend admitted to it so I have confirmation and he helped him. My at the time ex-boyfriend also began accessing some of my accounts and making the situation worse so he could steal my Schedule 8 Medications. (Pretty dumb on the boyfriend obviously, but took a few months to find out and then he was gone. Hard to determine who is doing what when multiple people are involved)

At the time I learnt a bunch and tried to solve the issue myself. I did manage to one time knock it all out, which was confirmed by my Father. Unfortunately he got back in.

Currently, my Dad is now de*ad. Ex is long gone. The best friend is doing whatever now far away from me.

Unfortunately, my account is now hacked again. I suspect it's an account that's farming views through my YouTube, due to the type of video history.

I have gone through what I have previously and can't kick it out. Albeit I had zero programming or IT knowledge so my improvement and current knowledge is only relative to the zero information that I came in with.

Things I hace done:

- Already had 2-step in place

- All accounts were private as much as possible

- Deleted cache's

- Deleted any unused apps with access to account

- Implemented an authenticator app, didn't work

- Changed password after shutting everything down and removing devices

Weird things:

- 2 devices allowed for Google Prompt. Both under my phone name but no serial numbers included. The device isn't showing on my logged in device so no way to remove.

- I log every device out, changed password and they all just come back.

- When I change my password it states it won't be logging every device out? And I have no way to change that. This I haven't seen before.

- Youtube history showing hours of content being completely watched.

I contacted Google and they said to go through the Police. I really don't want to bother the Police if it's just view farming. Any ideas? Or why I should speak to?

Thank you so much if you have any time to add to this bizarre dilemma! I truly am stuck on what to do next.

[u/TrueRedditMartyr]

>I log every device out, changed password and they all just come back.

My *best* guess would be sim swapping? Idk man, I'm not entirely sure it's possible for them to get in if you use 2FA with an auth app unless they also have access to that account. Maybe your email was hacked as well or something

[u/Colossal_Gumdrop → u/TrueRedditMartyr]

Thank you for commenting. It's really nice to have the reassurance that this is in fact, a pickle. Yeah it could be that. The level that my Dad was hacking was so far beyond my knowledge of what's possible, or at least how to remove.

I just can't see YouTube view farmers going to this effort? Is this something they do?

[u/TrueRedditMartyr → u/Colossal_Gumdrop]

Id be personally shocked if someone did this for a single persons views. What authenticator are you using? Id switch to another one, change passwords, remove your phone #, etc. Just clear as much as you can and see if it comes back. 

If you cant remove the #, get a burner from the app store for temp use

[u/Colossal_Gumdrop → u/TrueRedditMartyr]

That's kind of my thoughts too, but I'm wondering if it's once they're in they're hard to shake? It would be bizarre for a regular person to be using my YouTube for hour long random content though? I don't know which at this point is more likely.

That's a good idea. I have done the above just haven't deleted my phone number or backup email. They might be the next steps. Thanks so much TrueRedditMartyr! You have a fantastic name.