Ive been hacked!

This is going to be a long post, a very very long post!

May 5th 2017, the day some knob decided to hack all my social media!!! My instagram was at 25k followers, I had about 4300 friends on snapchat, I was working with about 27 different companies and I had just launched my new website for my makeup business. And just like that, I lost control of all social media, all my hard work was gone. Prick.

How It Happened;

So this knobhead, this is what we will call him, well is it a him? I don't know it could be a girl, half my friends think its a girl, half think its a boy?!! I think its a boy so I'm gonna say him and he. Anyway I don't know how or why but this knobhead managed to hack my hotmail, which gave him access to all my accounts. ALL of my accounts! Once he gained access from all accounts, he changed  all passwords, security questions, backup emails and my number linked to all accounts. So when I tried to regain access I basically didn't exist. He stole my identity and he locked me out of every single thing, the only thing he didn't hack was my bank account! 

How Can I Get My Accounts Back ?!?

Instagram, Snapchat and Hotmail were absolutely useless! I couldn't believe how hard it was to get hold of each individual company, there was no helpline number, no direct email, nothing! The first people I rang were hotmail, ask me how that went? Shit. It went shit. The phone call was probably 27 seconds long, no lie! I rang, I said hello, they said hello back, I said please can you help me I have been hacked, they said okay if you want to carry on with this call you have to pay £50.. UMMMMMM I'm sorry what?! £50 to be on the phone to someone telling them that my account had been hacked and they had shit security!?! R U JOKING!! (I obviously didn't say this to them I hung up and cried my eyes out) I am not a stinge but sorry I was not paying £50. That was the end of that.

Then I tried, yes TRIED to contact Instagram and snapchat to explain what had happened, that someone has control of my accounts and either please help me regain access or please shut the accounts down! This didn't happen, I couldn't get in contact with anyone for 6 days until I contacted the police. After 11 days, 7 different user names and over 3,000 reports, 19 emails (I was given the direct email from the police) and 8 tweets to Instagram, 1 crime reference number and 3 calls/emails from the police, my account finally got shut down! I was so happy I actually cried that it got shut down I was THAT happy! Onto Snapchat.. well still to this day that account is still live. Yea, it is still going, the hacker still have full controll. Once I managed to finally get hold of Snapchat via email, they told me the only way that I could regain access or get the account taken down is if I could GUESS the hacked password. Yes, you read that right. Snapchat wanted me to guess the password that the hacker had changed it too.. lmao I mean you've got to be shitting me haven't you, how am I supposed to guess a password made up by someone who has done everything he can to make sure I can not get back into any of my accounts! Knobs. So that went out the window.

What The Hacker Done!

Well what didn't the hacker do? Because he had access to my snapchat, this meant he had access to all my snapchat memories, and I used to take pictures on snapchat and save them because I swear the snapchat camera is way better right?! Well this didn't work in my favour because he would post pictures from my memories to my instagram pretending to be me! Anyone who knows me too would know that I would NEVER caption my photos what he was captioning my photos, it was so cringe! He would then message so many girls, so so so so so many girls on instagram and tell them to add him/me on snapchat. He would tell these girls that I was a lesbian, that I hated my boyfriend and I didn't want to be with him, he would ask for naked photos and too meet them. He also used to message younger girls saying that I would come to their home and do their prom makeup for them free of charge. Sickening right. He would also send people photos of my driving license to 'prove' to them that he was me. This is still going on can I just say, this person is still doing this! Every time I went away or I went to an event or there was an occasion the hacker would start posting on snapchat again, Palma, Glastonbury, My Birthday, Dubai!!! With all this still going on, my car had got broken into, no okay it may not of been nothing to do with the hacker, but the creep knew everything about me! He had my address, he knew what door to go through to my studio, he had my diary of clients, he had access to everything so he knew everything!  I would be stupid not to think there may of been some involvement! And even up until 3 nights ago I was getting No Caller ID phonecalls all through the day and night of someone heavy breathing, again it may not be related but I'm guessing it is the same person!

What I Done

I started up a new instagram, snapchat, gmail account because hotmail were rubbish and I'm working on setting up a new website! I was lucky enough to manage to get in contact with some companies i was previously working with and they were still willing to work with me which was amazing! Im still building my instagram back up but its a work in progress and I'm getting there! Make-up side of things, well I was devastated because I got/get a lot of my clients through instagram so this really really damaged my business! This was how I made money, how and why was anyone going to contact me when I had a hacked website and no pictures on instagram of my work! Thankfully though everyone was so supportive they were posting my new instagram, my makeup, my work and this slowly built up too! I am so grateful for how much support I had off so many people!!

How It Made/Makes Me Feel

Im saying this in present tense because it is still ongoing and my feelings are still the same, kind of anyway! Imagine someone taking control of what feels like your life and your identity, some people will read this and be like wow dramatic, worse things going on in the world. Wish I am completely aware of don't get me wrong, but its an invasion of privacy, its someone using your name, pictures and business to pleasure themselves. Someone was pretending to me be so young girls would invite them round their house to have a free makeover by me! Thats so fucked!! That makes me feel sick, its like anger, sadness, paranoia all rolled into one! I honestly felt like I was getting controlled and the fact this scumbag still to this day is pretending to me be on snapchat and god knows what else just makes my blood boil!! I have never felt so vulnerable before in my life! It has got to me a lot more than I let on and a lot more than I would of liked it to! But things are looking up and I can only think positive to this whole episode and that karma will get his shitty skanky ass!

I can't say much more on this case as it's still under investigation by the police.

Have I covered everything? Definitely not! Is there more to come? Abso-fucking-lutely!

What a dramatic ending..

To be continued..

Hope you liked it!

Love Lacey xx