My son can't access his account (hacked)

Discus and support My son can't access his account (hacked) in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; When my son tried to play on the xbox after school today, he was unable to access his account. His gamertag, icon, and listed email were correct, but... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by IAFanOfSteel, Dec 23, 2018.

  1. IAFanOfSteel
    IAFanOfSteel Guest

    My son can't access his account (hacked)


    When my son tried to play on the xbox after school today, he was unable to access his account. His gamertag, icon, and listed email were correct, but when he clicked on his gamertag it showed a different email (not ours) and requested a password that we
    obviously don't have. I tried the online chat to no avail and submitted an 'escalation form' request. I really wanted to talk to a live person, but the 1-800-4my-xbox just gives me a recording and offers to send a link to me (which I also tried).

    I feel this is an urgent issue, since my credit card is linked to his account, and I have no way of telling what is going on with it. I can access his microsoft account (we used a different email for that somehow), but that is not linked to his xbox account
    and thus can't do the automated account recovery.

    Has anyone experienced a similar situation? How was it resolved? Who can I talk to?

    Thanks!

    :)
     
    IAFanOfSteel, Dec 23, 2018
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  2. IAFanOfSteel Win User

    My son can't access his account (hacked)

    I understand, but...

    1) That's a huge pain

    2) It should be a simple fix if I could just talk to a human.
  3. XBF Jeremy Z Win User

    My son can't access his account (hacked)

    Hiya Steel,

    Thank you for letting us know that the issue has been fixed.
    (Since you have marked a response as answered) We'll be locking the thread as the issue has been resolved. If you ever require any help with any other issues please feel free to come back to the Xbox Forums for further assistance.

    Happy Gaming
  4. IAFanOfSteel Win User

    My son can't access his account (hacked)

    Unfortunately, there is not an option for 'request a call from support'. There are only "post on the forums" (doing that here), and "chat with xbox support" (already tried). I'm getting frustrated at not being able to talk to someone :(
  5. Puppy Fujo Win User

    My son can't access his account (hacked)

    You can contact your credit card company and explain the situation to them and they will initiate a credit card number change to prevent unauthorized charges to your account. Alternatively if you have set up that you need to authorize a purchase that incurs
    a charge before they are completed then you shouldn't need to worry. Just monitor your credit card and if an unauthorized charge occurs then you can contact your credit card company to have it reversed. Most credit card companies allow you dispute a charge
    that was not made by you within a certain timeframe. So as long as you monitor it you won't be held responsible if a charge does indeed occur.
  6. IAFanOfSteel Win User

    My son can't access his account (hacked)

    I was able (finally) to reach someone via the 'callback' option. It seems that if you are trying to 'recover account' you can only do it online, not on the phone. I had to work around it by entering it as a 'billing' issue (out of concern about my credit
    card), which opened up the callback option. It seems like the account recovery algorithm could use a bit of tweaking.

    Anyway, I was able to explain to the very helpful rep what was going on, and she took the relevant information and escalated the ticket to a hacking investigation. Hopefully it will be resolved in the next few days.

    Thanks for your help!
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