I have been hacked and I need to know how to get my profile back

http://scratch.mit.edu/projects/23653622/

Report it to the Scratch Team.

how do I report

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

I never told anyone my password

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

When did you find out u got hacked????

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

He was not hacked, simply password guessed, which is common with weak passwords.
Or he left a public computer logged in with his scratch account.

Sonickyle wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

He was not hacked, simply password guessed, which is common with weak passwords.
Or he left a public computer logged in with his scratch account.

You don't know that, unless you were the hacker. Anyway, he never would have given anyone his password.

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

He was not hacked, simply password guessed, which is common with weak passwords.
Or he left a public computer logged in with his scratch account.

You don't know that, unless you were the hacker. Anyway, he never would have given anyone his password.

You can't hack scratch. It would be like hacking Google (since it is)– EXTREMELY HARD

And also no hacker would go on a kids' programing website and hack one person's account.

master_tolkien wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

He was not hacked, simply password guessed, which is common with weak passwords.
Or he left a public computer logged in with his scratch account.

You don't know that, unless you were the hacker. Anyway, he never would have given anyone his password.

You can't hack scratch. It would be like hacking Google (since it is)– EXTREMELY HARD

And also no hacker would go on a kids' programing website and hack one person's account.

Actually, there's been hacking going on for lots of accounts. They, if they know the code, can just get the hacking code in and just find someone's password.

All passwords that Google saves are protected by industry standard encryption, and it would be changed if anyone got past it.

master_tolkien wrote:

All passwords that Google saves are protected by industry standard encryption, and it would be changed if anyone got past it.

Scratch is not owned by Google, only the search is.

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

master_tolkien wrote:

All passwords that Google saves are protected by industry standard encryption, and it would be changed if anyone got past it.

Scratch is not owned by Google, only the search is.

I just give up, you can go on thinking it was hacked.

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

master_tolkien wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

He was not hacked, simply password guessed, which is common with weak passwords.
Or he left a public computer logged in with his scratch account.

You don't know that, unless you were the hacker. Anyway, he never would have given anyone his password.

You can't hack scratch. It would be like hacking Google (since it is)– EXTREMELY HARD

And also no hacker would go on a kids' programing website and hack one person's account.

Actually, there's been hacking going on for lots of accounts. They, if they know the code, can just get the hacking code in and just find someone's password.

Hacking =/= logging into someone's account without their permission and changing stuff. It doesn't matter if OP didn't share their password, it still isn't hacking. That's not the definition of it whatsoever.

I'm not savvy with the subject but I'm knowledgeable enough to know that hacking entails actually getting into the code and software of a website and changing it in order to gain access to places of the website the hacker does not have permission to. Scratch is also a very secure website. Given this, why on earth would someone go through all of the hassle and EXTREME difficulty of hacking into the website (which would usually require multiple people) just to remove a few projects from one user? In the event of Scratch getting legitimately hacked (the likelihood of which is low) the hackers' motives would be to take valuable data and cripple the site - meaning compromising the projects, passwords, security and user details of everyone and everything on the site. Not to go into one person's account and change their password and projects or something as mundane as that.

Thus this wasn't hacking.

As others mentioned, what happened here was a result of either a weak password that was easy to guess and thus gain access to the account or they left their account open at school. On the OP's subject matter, they should let the moderators know if they haven't done so already to see if they can recover the project(s) and reset the password.

Tell the Scratch team or try to log in and change your password if you can get in at all!

tomicool wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

master_tolkien wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Sonickyle wrote:

SuperSmashScratch wrote:

Firedrake969 wrote:

Someone must've guessed your password, or you told it to them. It's not technically “hacking”. First, if they haven't changed your email, click “Forgot password” and have the current password sent to your email. If that doesn't work, contact the Scratch Team. http://scratch.mit.edu/contact-us/

Yes, he actually did get hacked. He never told anyone his password, or even a letter of it. And I know that. Anyway, change the password by clicking the “Forgot Password?” button.

He was not hacked, simply password guessed, which is common with weak passwords.
Or he left a public computer logged in with his scratch account.

You don't know that, unless you were the hacker. Anyway, he never would have given anyone his password.

You can't hack scratch. It would be like hacking Google (since it is)– EXTREMELY HARD

And also no hacker would go on a kids' programing website and hack one person's account.

Actually, there's been hacking going on for lots of accounts. They, if they know the code, can just get the hacking code in and just find someone's password.

Hacking =/= logging into someone's account without their permission and changing stuff. It doesn't matter if OP didn't share their password, it still isn't hacking. That's not the definition of it whatsoever.

I'm not savvy with the subject but I'm knowledgeable enough to know that hacking entails actually getting into the code and software of a website and changing it in order to gain access to places of the website the hacker does not have permission to. Scratch is also a very secure website. Given this, why on earth would someone go through all of the hassle and EXTREME difficulty of hacking into the website (which would usually require multiple people) just to remove a few projects from one user? In the event of Scratch getting legitimately hacked (the likelihood of which is low) the hackers' motives would be to take valuable data and cripple the site - meaning compromising the projects, passwords, security and user details of everyone and everything on the site. Not to go into one person's account and change their password and projects or something as mundane as that.

Thus this wasn't hacking.

As others mentioned, what happened here was a result of either a weak password that was easy to guess and thus gain access to the account or they left their account open at school. On the OP's subject matter, they should let the moderators know if they haven't done so already to see if they can recover the project(s) and reset the password.

http://wiki.scratch.mit.edu/wiki/Hack It says:

Hacking can refer to the tampering of another individual or company's softwares, computers, or databases or when a user finds out one's password in any manner and uses it to get onto their account.

Thus, yes, it might have been hacking.

TheChubbyMonkey1000 wrote:

Tell the Scratch team or try to log in and change your password if you can get in at all!

I'm pretty sure he can use the “Forgot Password” button.

Well that sucks for you . Wait I have a question. When you logged in right after you were hacked, were you automatically signed in, or did you have to sign back ing

Since this topic hasn't seen a new post from the topic owner in a long time, I'm going to assume that it is dead and close the topic. If it still is alive, the topic owner just needs to use the Report button to ask a mod to reopen it