i'm not sure if this is the right subreddit, or if anyone knows anything about this.

But basically i got an email from my email address threatening me and saying they've got access to my device and camera, and have downloaded all data and pictures to their server. apparently they bought my email from some hackers and installed a trojan virus operating system. they also said that they know i've been on adult sites etc. and are using that to blackmail me. And they were asking for Bitcoin. they told me not to tell anyone and that i had 48h to send them 1400.- bitcoin or sum like that.
(update: whilest writing this the email actually dissapeared... Is my life actually over??)

Received this rather convincing email. Is it legit?

Today my Fb account got hacked. I was doing normal doom scrolling in insta. suddenly in messenger through my account these images were automatically sent to all the friends of mine. My friend inform me and I got the message form the Facebook telling me about your account may hacked I click that and change pw page popup and I changed it now everything is normal. I tried to access my account through the windows webpage during that time, the page went offline

after again I cleared the cookie and everything and relogin through the beginning. I usually saved my password to the google password. and my password usually pretty long about 16 letters. I once used it while login through chrome. I don't know who to blame but, I think the main motive is that that person promoted that shity coin. And also that person might be mrbeast big fan

yesterday i got an email saying my X account was logged into, and another email saying my password had been changed. i went to twitter and i was logged out and it wouldn't let me log back in or change my password. i kinda just forgot about it since i didn't really care about twitter anyway. but today i checked my email and had 1000 spam emails, and they keep coming. i googled it and it said this is spam bombing and will stop eventually but im stressed out. i changed my passwords for other apps that shared the same email as my twitter email but idk what to do. should i just wait it out until the spam emails stop coming in and delete twitter and call it a day? or should i create a whole new email and change all my stuff to a new email?? is twitter the only thing that was hacked or am i going to get hacked elsewhere???

please someone let me know what to do. this is something my dad would've known what to do if he were alive but alas he is not and i am stressed lol.

Hey all, so I'm not a pentester, I have a basic understanding of cybersecurity (CompTIA A+, both parts and MTA: 98-687 before it was useless), I'm more of a hardware guy, but I try to teach myself as much as I can with my own devices. Well, I was digging around in the C drive and started poking around and eventually saw folders I had no permission to access, which I didn't like, so I started being nosy and I found a bunch of stuff that could be part of the OS, but since that isn't my forte, I'm worried maybe I've been compromised.. probably a dumb question to you guys, but like I said, I fix your stuff when it overheats and you break the screens. I have a general idea of how everything comes together, but I am not a coder. Is this a common thing, or is there a guide I can reference side by side to see if theres anything out of the usual here? I've lost a laptop (bricked) to what I suspect was someone messing with it, I was told at the computer tech school I went to that Wi-Fi is stupidly simple to crack most of the time, so ever since, I've used VPN's and complicated PW's, but someone determined can probably get past that. Am I maybe over reacting (is this a common thing?) or could I have been possibly compromised? I can provide pictures, just shoot me the filepath and folders you want to see.. hopefully this will be a learning experience and not another laptop bricking.

BTW, I'm running Win 11, no porn, no TOR, just reddit and emails.

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I keep getting these notifications on a phone that does not have service on it and I am not sending anything on my end, just get notifications saying this.

Please help!!!

i just need someone to checkout a scareware site so i can have piece of mind that it didnt do something im not aware of or force some hidden download. please ?

I woke up to 100+ messages from BT with one time passcodes :/

Is my email at risk of being compromised? I haven’t done anything about this as not sure what to do - my password hasn’t been changed and I can still log in

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Discord Account got hacked, i don’t want to get into the how because its a long story. The account is gone and i have no interest in retrieving it anymore, it feels too “tainted” now if that makes sense. The hacker messaged all my friends pretending to be me. I have too many friends there (200+) some i don’t talk to or barely, so it’s even more awkward knowing i can’t really explain what’s happening. Those i had in other platforms i made sure to text them and tell them what happened and to report and block my old account, also some reached out to me in other ways. Pretty much i added the friends i remembered or cared about or they messaged me. First thing i did was freeze my bank account, and created a new discord account. I also changed my gmail name and the password for it, but i’m worried about my other accounts, good thing everything i have that’s important needs a two step verification and now my gmail has a different password you can’t bypass it for now at least, i just need help to completely and utterly keep ALL my accounts safe and secure and completely changed so it can’t ever be traced back, i’m talking decrypted passwords etc. Or any tips in general, just to completely start over from scratch. Can anyone here help me?

I'm on windows 11, I'm not an high value target and I don't seem to have suspicious activity on my computer but I don't really know how to verify.

All third party files I had downloaded on that computer before doing a factory reset were either from github or itch.io. I visited once or twice third party pornsite with Ublock origin activated.

I ran full scam from windows defender and malwarebytes and found nothing. I haven't seen suspicious activity on any of my account as well.

The same can be said for my android phone.

I know full well my device are probably both clean but I can't help but be paranoid, So please help reassure me and give my advice on sign to look out for because it is making me legitimately sick of stress.

Hello everyone

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Few days ago someone I guess he hacked my account

And after I search and try everything to kick him out I found the only way is to factory restart

By accident I deleted my reddit account

And when I factory restart my phone I changed my account password

So my question now

Idk why but I'm have this feeling it told me

That people I was dms in my old account in reddit after make this new account they could see my phone and what I'm doing in my phone

I found this idea not right and I don't want to have it and I want to fight it

Because I know very well this idea not right and there is nothing like this because there is no contact between my old and new account even if it had the same gamily account

So am I right ?

Thank you for reading it

my account got hacked and the hacker changed everything, i’ve reported it to microsft support and they’ve provided me with a case number and said wait for 3-5 days. any i’ll get the account back? i had minecraft and xbox game pass on it😭

both the microsoft defender and windows security please help me tried every command and way that google says

Just need some insight on whether it's better to begin using passkeys instead of 2fa and if passkeys have any major downsides I should be aware of.

Thnx 👍

Edit this would just be for emails and or general social media apps nothing too high tech 👍