Hacked on Discord
Your Discord was taken. Here's the next hour.
Discord takeovers hit creators through their communities and their kids through games.
Does this look familiar
- Your account is messaging friends and servers with "free Nitro" or crypto links
- You're logged out and the password doesn't work
- Email or phone on the account changed
- Your server lost admins or gained bots you didn't add
- Someone "accidentally reported" you and asked you to talk to a "Discord admin"
Do these, in order
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Email and carrier first
Before touching Discord: from a clean device, change your email password, enable app-based two-factor, sign out of all sessions, and check recovery options. Call your carrier for an account PIN and port-freeze. Full first hour.
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Reset your password from the login screen. If the email was changed, Discord sends a notification to the old address with a link to revert it; check that inbox, including spam.
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Once in: User Settings → Devices. Log out of all other devices. Then Authorized Apps: deauthorize everything you don't recognize.
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Enable two-factor with an authenticator app, save the backup codes somewhere real, and change the password anywhere it was reused.
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If you run a server: Server Settings → Audit Log shows what the attacker did. Remove unknown roles, bots and webhooks, restore permissions, and tell your members.
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If you can't get in, submit a request under "Hacked account" with the account's original email and username. One careful request beats five rushed ones.
Avoid
- Running any "fix," "game cheat," or "free Nitro" file, especially the ones that got you here.
- Talking to anyone claiming to be a "Discord admin" who contacted you first. Discord staff don't do that.
- Scanning QR codes someone sends you to "verify." That logs them in as you.
After you're back in
Make sure it can't happen the same way twice.
- Figure out how they got in. The fix depends on the door they used, and there's usually more than one.
- Close that door specifically, then the ones next to it.
- Assume the same people will try again. They usually do.
- Check your passwords and email against known breaches with a free account, and run the exposure scorecard. Or let us do the whole thing.