THIS BLOG IS LONG, but I split into two parts. First part is about my hacking second is about that little QUEEN CruelSummer. I wasn’t sure how much I wanted to write about all of this but the more I thought about me being hacked I wanted to explain what happened to the public and honestly ask for action from randomize so that we have security over our accounts.
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PART ONE
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For anyone who doesn’t know me, my name is Tyler and I first started playing on this website when I was 12 years year old, in 2008. I went through phases where I was active and then inactive again, but honestly from like the ages of 12-16 I kind of grew up on this website. It was a big part of my teenage years and I met a lot of great friends, some who I still talk to daily even. In college I mostly kept to myself and my small group on Tengaged, and one day in 2018 I went to log in but all of my pages were signed out. My password wasn’t working and I knew I was hacked obviously, but I had NO clue how. I texted tonym101101 about it and he went to check and found out he was hacked too LMAO. He had access to his old email and stuff so he was able to recover his but I didn’t use that email address anymore (I made it when I was like 8) and I couldn’t access it to save my account. I noticed that tons and tons of people had been hacked, some had access again and some didn’t. The website had no moderation and didn’t seem like randomize would ever return and there was really not much I could do LOL. I had an old old multi Poubelle that I made as a kid so I logged in there and blogged about how I had been hacked and stuff, and the hacker was mailing me from “tyleror” saying I needed to buy back the account and stuff.. then they actually found my personal Instagram, and were DMing me from a burner account saying that I needed to pay them 60 dollars to get it back. And they were saying they had access to my social media accounts, bank account, etc, saying I was lucky they didn’t hack that. I kept screenshots of all of this as well but it’s a burner account so I mean I couldn’t report it anywhere really LOL, but I kept them just in case idk.
Fast forward to yesterday. I asked Eilish if he had my account because of some blogs he posted, and he told me no he did not- but he directed to me someone else to talk to (only blogging his name because he blogged it himself, not trying to say anything bad about him here). So I talked to this person and they were able to help me recover my account today. Now, I didn’t want to say ANY of this because I was happy to have my account back, but then I found out whoever hacked me still has access. The way I was given my account back, was via the “login email” that you use when you forget your password. This means that whoever hacked my tengaged account apparently has access to the email account I made when I was like 8 years old? (Also never gave that password out, but my childhood neopets account was in a data-breach so love that) I feel comfortable with moderation on this site that someone isn’t dumb enough to log on and mess with my account, because IP checks exist. But I’m honestly extremely frustrated that my account is still not secure. BTW, I also am NOT trying to call any person out by name here because I will never know who actually did it unless someone wants to confess.
So no, I’m not trying to get anyone in trouble but I do want randomize to fix this aspect of the website and let us connect things like cell phones numbers, or CHANGE our old email addresses etc. Our accounts are NOT secure, and even after all this time talking to moderation and the numerous messages I have sent to Carlos, nothing was done to help me retrieve my account. This is honestly pretty scary and unprofessional in my opinion at least. While I do believe the current moderation team TRIED to help me, I am very frustrated with randomize’s response to this and I wish that it did not take 3 years for me to recover this account. Let alone the fact I’ve recruited multiple irl friends to get you more revenue and website traffic over the 10+ years I spent here... Shoutout to Zackaroni68LameyJamiekgbit ❤️ not trying to be rude about this, but honestly I am frustrated and I think I have a right to be LOL.
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PART TWO
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ANYWAY... I gave up pretty quickly about getting my account back, didn’t have an interest in playing on my old multi Poubelle so I just quit for a little bit. Then one day like a year later I was bored at my new apartment and decided to make a new account, CruelSummer. Honestly I think I like blogged once and joined one or two games but nothing was drawing me to the site and I left again. BUT, a few months later, the pandemic hit and I flew home to stay with family for a month. I was not working and super bored, and so me, Zackaroni68 and tonym101101 decided to come back on and play some games. They got bored quickly but I kept playing.
Most people knew I was a multi right away LOL, but I stayed in my lane and didn’t rly care cuz I wasn’t looking to “trick” anyone I just kind of wanted to exist and enjoy myself. My intentions when I first started playing were just to troll around a bit, we were on lockdown and it was something to pass time. After a few months though I was still in lock down obviously LOL, and so I was getting pretty active on the site. The whole time I honestly never wanted to be associated with my old account because truthfully a lot of uncomfortable stuff happened to me on this account. On the one hand there is stupid drama and grudges people will hold over games for their entire life. And even things more serious than that. When I was a young teenager here I was a victim of grooming and engaged in sexual relations with men WELL over 18, and I knew nothing of it at the time but honestly it’s something that as I got older has been really upsetting and harmful to me. I was also a victim of people spreading nude photos of me around WHEN I WAS A MINOR on this site, another thing that was not handled by moderation at the time. I also had no clue if the hackers could somehow gain access to that account, or if they would start trying to get money from me again or what. The list goes on, I had a lot of reasons for just wanting to leave the name in the past since I had a few years away to move on anyway. Plus at the time I thought I would just play games for a few months and leave, so it wouldn’t ever matter. I named this account after a Taylor Swift song of course but ppl started calling me Summer and it was cute and I honestly love playing games as a girl, so really in my head I was just playing Big Brother as a girl LOL. Like I wasn’t trying to talk to anyone outside of the game or anything so I felt like I was being harmless, and just doing my thing.
However as I began to make more close friends, and play more games I hated not being able to go on calls with them and stuff since they thought I was Summer. The group game community is where I first started going on calls again so I guess that’s when ppl truly found out “Summer” was not Summer LOL, so this part is maybe not super news to all of you. Shoutout to all of my group game fam tho ❤️
I want to apologize if anyone felt like “tricked” by me on that account, for being a noob or for being Summer but at the end of the day ANY conversations I had with you there, especially anything not games related, those were real. I was always genuine about who I am and I understand any frustrations about it but I do hope you can see it wasn’t malicious. And I hope that the friends I made on CruelSummer can honestly forgive me cuz I do feel like I lied and I’m sorry to you all, it was never out of ill will ❤️
Tagging some friends who I want to stay in touch with from CruelSummer that I haven’t reached out to yet, IM SORRY IF I FORGOT YOU IM TIRED AND RUSHING and also not trying to spam millions lol😭
No nanonerd I am not going to log into it again... I’ve already talked to brandonpinzu and I don’t think that would happen unless I kept using it? Honestly I hope the mods don’t ban it, since I technically could have this account stolen again it is nice to use Summer as backup so I could actually blog about it in that case
Omg when we did our girl alliance and you was slaying in rod survivor game I would have never guessed! I love you anyway I am adding you on this account too! I’m crying idk if I can not call you summer lol it gonna take a while
Honestly love that I’ve gotten to know you as summer and will continue to get to know you more !! <333 especially since we were never close friends on this account
My original account was also hacked. I found out right away and was able to recover it thankfully, but still uncomfortable. Hopefully whoever was responsible is held accountable.
darbe did you ask to add me on snap?? I don’t even remember 🤣🤣
cheritaisdelicious yeah OMG sorry about that I was on call with friends and drinking perhaps too much and got peer pressured LOL sorry girl!!! I did think it was funny though
noah_kondon honestly not sure yet! Might just use my summer skype because my old tyleror Skype has too many old contacts on it anyway. But I’ll let you know
To everyone else who sent kind messages, I’m sorry if I didn’t reply directly but seriously the kind words mean a lot! I appreciate you all and I’m glad to be back on my original account :) Between all of y’all commenting and those who have reached out in mails and on Skype, it’s been a really nice way to be welcomed back onto this account when a few days ago I didn’t even think I would ever see it again LOL. Love y’all ❤️
tyleror we have played a bunch of games back in the day but i cant remember if we were friendly or rivals. do u remember? Also, I'm sorry about the whole hacking incident. +15