So it’s kinda obvious what I’m asking about but can you get hacked on scratch?

only if you have a weak password

8to16 wrote:

only if you have a weak password

Which is why it's important to have a strong password. Many/all of the accounts on Scratch that got “hacked” have just had their weak passwords guessed.

Amazingfish8 wrote:

So it’s kinda obvious what I’m asking about but can you get hacked on scratch?

Well, yes. You can get hacked anywhere. The way to NOT get hacked is to use a strong password, and only share your password with your immediate family. Don't share your password with anyone else, especially if it's someone you don't know.

Yes but only if you share your password or you have a weak one like “Password” or “1234”

Sorry, you have to wait 60 seconds between posts.

8to16 wrote:

only if you have a weak password

I don't think only if you have a weak password! Maybe, some shared it or the hackers somehow guessed it.

Follow up questions,

Is there any accounts up that have been hacked

Amazingfish8 wrote:

Follow up questions,

Is there any accounts up that have been hacked

There actually have been. For example, a friend of mine has once been blocked because someone had sabotaged her account and changed her pfp(although she's since been unblocked)

8to16 wrote:

only if you have a weak password

Not really; Scratch needs robust security. Higher-tier accounts have been hacked on the most popular social media platforms, not to mention entire networks. So, it's much easier than you think. I frequently receive emails about login attempts and login success on my Sony account, but thankfully, those attempts have been blocked. Just imagine how easy it would be to hack an account. Not to mention I had a strong password.

spraypaintdev wrote:

There actually have been. For example, a friend of mine has once been blocked because someone had sabotaged her account and changed her pfp(although she's since been unblocked)

mine has been but im using a alt account. and the scratch team has not been to helpful. person who took the account was changing everything on it so i rallied up a ton of scratchers and scared them of the account.

RecessFailsOffical wrote:

Amazingfish8 wrote:

So it’s kinda obvious what I’m asking about but can you get hacked on scratch?

Well, yes. You can get hacked anywhere. The way to NOT get hacked is to use a strong password, and only share your password with your immediate family. Don't share your password with anyone else, especially if it's someone you don't know.

Don’t share your password with anyone period. It should be between you and any religious figure you believe in, and the religious figure knowing is a bit iffy. Not even the ST can ever know it.

8to16 wrote:

only if you have a weak password

Plenty of other ways.
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This may be overkill for scratch, but its good for general passwords.
Do have a secure password, and change it once every few months or so. The password should have a diverse set of characters, Latin characters, Arabic numbers, emojis if possible, at least 8 characters long, maybe even other languages characters. Don’t make it your password, don’t make it one character repeating. Keep it to yourself. Don’t store it online, papercopies only, and make them sparse.

Yes.

Anywhere you have an account you can be hacked.

Strong passwords help prevent this, but it's still possible that hacker(s) get lucky and guess your password.

Amazingfish8 wrote:

So it’s kinda obvious what I’m asking about but can you get hacked on scratch?

For hat you're concerned with, no, nobody is going to hack your account. It just won't happen

It is Really rare to get hacked on Scratch as there is no gain, all you get is someone's name and email address.

Having a common password. See This List.

-gr wrote:

8to16 wrote:

only if you have a weak password

Which is why it's important to have a strong password. Many/all of the accounts on Scratch that got “hacked” have just had their weak passwords guessed.

And mostly school accounts do this, for reference we can look at that stulive incident that happened on Griffpatch’s profile

kRxZy_kRxZy wrote:

It is Really rare to get hacked on Scratch as there is no gain, all you get is someone's name and email address.

Wdym name? Do you mean username? Also from experience with a famous ban evader (won’t mention) they can use hacked accounts to ban evade and keep doing what they did before ban

RandomGuy658 wrote:

Amazingfish8 wrote:

So it’s kinda obvious what I’m asking about but can you get hacked on scratch?

For hat you're concerned with, no, nobody is going to hack your account. It just won't happen

No I’m asking because some person on a project said you can’t get hacked on scratch so I made this to see if they were correct or not

GlitchedThrough wrote:

RecessFailsOffical wrote:

Amazingfish8 wrote:

So it’s kinda obvious what I’m asking about but can you get hacked on scratch?

Well, yes. You can get hacked anywhere. The way to NOT get hacked is to use a strong password, and only share your password with your immediate family. Don't share your password with anyone else, especially if it's someone you don't know.

Don’t share your password with anyone period. It should be between you and any religious figure you believe in, and the religious figure knowing is a bit iffy. Not even the ST can ever know it.

8to16 wrote:

only if you have a weak password

Plenty of other ways.
—
This may be overkill for scratch, but its good for general passwords.
Do have a secure password, and change it once every few months or so. The password should have a diverse set of characters, Latin characters, Arabic numbers, emojis if possible, at least 8 characters long, maybe even other languages characters. Don’t make it your password, don’t make it one character repeating. Keep it to yourself. Don’t store it online, papercopies only, and make them sparse.

Don’t forget to put a sponsor in it

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