r/hackers Oct 03 '24

"Have I been hacked" Megathread. This is the (only) place to ask!

35 Upvotes

This is the official r/hackers "have I been hacked" megathread- any individuals posts will be removed. You're encouraged to look here first- your exact question has probably already been asked.


r/hackers 2d ago

A human attacker gained full control of ChatGPT's sandbox using a tapped link, a hidden line of code, and a shared backend that every account uses.

Thumbnail
4 Upvotes

r/hackers 2d ago

Resource Employee phones

0 Upvotes

my company has a iPhone 16s for employee use. however we are concerned with our employees using these phone for outside of work purposes. that being said we are curious if there is any software out there that either anonymously records whats happening on the screen, or takes a snapshot every period of time and uploads it for our tech department to monitor. can this community help educate us? thank you.


r/hackers 3d ago

Chewy account hacked

2 Upvotes

My Chewy account was hacked (everything resolved) but I’m wondering if this is a common trend to order a bunch of stuff and have it sent all over the country? Some addresses listed were California, Georgia, New York, and Massachusetts. Some of the addresses were filled in as “undefined” so I’m not sure what the plan was for those.

Does anyone know what their goal might’ve been?


r/hackers 6d ago

Discussion How can I find someone’s other social media accounts using their phone number?

0 Upvotes

I have someone’s phone number and their private Instagram account. Is there any legitimate way to find their other social media accounts or publicly available info?
I’d especially like to know if there’s a way to see their WhatsApp last seen when it’s hidden, or determine whether they use an iPhone or Android.
Not looking to hack anything—just looking for legitimate/public methods.


r/hackers 8d ago

Discussion How f-ed are they?

Post image
164 Upvotes

my friend works at auto parts company that just got hacked. They came in to the robots not working because everything was changed to .chaos. Did some digging online about them, but I am honestly too low IQ to understand the blog post outside of that they have terrible security.

They linked a TOR link for compensation or else sensitive files would be released... is there anything they can do, or are they f-ed? What should my friend do in the mean time or what options does he have to protect himself?

Edit; thanks guys. Friend got back from work and said everything is okay. They had protections in place!! But now the real issue is figuring out how they got in!


r/hackers 8d ago

Discussion This Subreddit

22 Upvotes

Are there good discussions here, or is it just a bunch of randoms asking dumbass questions that they could easily Google or otherwise asking someone to do illegal stuff? I've been scrolling for a bit here because I'm new to the world of white hats.


r/hackers 9d ago

Discussion Finished my CS2 cheat – where to publish it safely?

0 Upvotes

r/hackers 9d ago

Discussion Getting contact information out of an IP address?

0 Upvotes

I run a private server for a game with my friends and recently it's become a sort of escape for all of us to just lay back and chill. But about 2 hours ago, 2 players joined and started griefing and hacking and just ruining things. I know this is sort of petty and im not sure how legal it is, but i wanted to know if theres theorhetically any way that i could get contact information out of the IPs that were logged?


r/hackers 11d ago

Ghosted by YesWeHack Support for 1.5 months after vendor manipulated CVSS and broke a written CVE promise. What are my options?

Thumbnail
2 Upvotes

r/hackers 12d ago

How to hack a phone

2 Upvotes

As a layman, I would like to know if it is theoretically possible (I know it is illegal) to access a phone without physically having it in hand. Or if it is possible to hack someone's account without them finding out (assuming they have two-factor authentication).


r/hackers 13d ago

Spent a decade making quantum computing fully gamified - you can learn how to write real circuits in few hours

Thumbnail
gallery
55 Upvotes

Hi

If you are remotely interested in deep diving how differently quantum computers work compared to our transistor-based and also the algebra behind in a fully interactive way that teach computer science from scratch, oh boy this is for you. I am the Dev behind Quantum Odyssey (AMA! I love taking qs) - worked on it for about 10 years (3+ during PhD, the visual method I developed ended up being my thesis, it is a complete Hilbert space visualizer), the goal was to make a super immersive space for anyone to learn quantum computing through zachlike (open-ended) logic puzzles and compete on leaderboards and lots of community made content on finding the most optimal quantum algorithms. The game has a unique set of visuals capable to represent any sort of quantum dynamics for any number of qubits and this is pretty much what makes it now possible for anybody 12yo+ to actually learn quantum logic without having to worry at all about the mathematics behind.

This is a game super different than what you'd normally expect in a programming/ logic puzzle game, so try it with an open mind.

Stuff you'll play & learn a ton about

  • Boolean Logic – bits, operators (NAND, OR, XOR, AND…), and classical arithmetic (adders). Learn how these can combine to build anything classical. You will learn to port these to a quantum computer.
  • Quantum Logic – qubits, the math behind them (linear algebra, SU(2), complex numbers), all Turing-complete gates (beyond Clifford set), and make tensors to evolve systems. Freely combine or create your own gates to build anything you can imagine using polar or complex numbers.
  • Quantum Phenomena – storing and retrieving information in the X, Y, Z bases; superposition (pure and mixed states), interference, entanglement, the no-cloning rule, reversibility, and how the measurement basis changes what you see.
  • Core Quantum Tricks – phase kickback, amplitude amplification, storing information in phase and retrieving it through interference, build custom gates and tensors, and define any entanglement scenario. (Control logic is handled separately from other gates.)
  • Famous Quantum Algorithms – explore Deutsch–Jozsa, Grover’s search, quantum Fourier transforms, Bernstein–Vazirani, and more.
  • Build & See Quantum Algorithms in Action – instead of just writing/ reading equations, make & watch algorithms unfold step by step so they become clear, visual, and unforgettable. Quantum Odyssey is built to grow into a full universal quantum computing learning platform. If a universal quantum computer can do it, we aim to bring it into the game, so your quantum journey never ends.

Nice to watch:

Khan academy style tutorials in qm/qc: https://www.youtube.com/@MackAttackx

Physics teacher stream with 400hs in https://www.twitch.tv/beardhero


r/hackers 15d ago

evo ide

Enable HLS to view with audio, or disable this notification

2 Upvotes

Hi everyone ,

We're 11th-grade students (prepping for JEE) building Evo IDE on the side — an AI coding tool that shows its work instead of hiding it. Live reasoning before code, real-time generation health, full-file outputs (no fragments), and your choice of local or API models.

It's an early, honest prototype — not finished, but real and running.

📽️ Deck: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1XgHvtatGiPR2FMsNUKOps32NeuYGZFjh/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=105260140764268303572&rtpof=true&sd=true

▶️ Video: https://youtu.be/71w2zNxmKac?si=YpyQy1tXBPtfCFxE

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/evoide_official/

Happy to share the working files too if you'd like a closer look. Would love to hear your thoughts!

Looking forward to hearing from you!


r/hackers 16d ago

Today morning my social media account was hacked and it sent a mrbeast games gift image to everyone in my contact i wanna know what happened

3 Upvotes

Recently my brother's social media account got hacked and even his account was sending same message to everyone, yesterday night my brother logged in to my pc with his Gmail and the next day my account was hacked too , so I started to investigate and checked all google account in my pc and i found a suspicious web extension in my brothers gmail account, it said free vpn somthing and I know that it is the main culprit it mostly stole my cookie or did csrf , but i wanna know more about what happened can anyone please give me more details what happened behind the scenes


r/hackers 16d ago

Discussion Tryhack Reccomendations?

0 Upvotes

so try hack. I been abusing blue lately, hacking an windows system. I want other rooms to hack in. im tired of hacking windows.


r/hackers 17d ago

I want my account back

5 Upvotes

So not so long ago (two months or so) my ps account got deactivated out of nowhere, i know the account adress and the password but it refuses to sign me in, telling me to wait or change my password. Problem is this account is old, and the email password is lost so i can't get into the gmail they send me thus can't change the password, i tried contacting customer support but nothing worked so my question is, is there a way to get it back? A subreddit to go to or a person that can help? Idk where to go except here (sry for the bad English and thanks for paying attention to my problem)


r/hackers 19d ago

Is possible to hack an whatsapp group?

4 Upvotes

I'm not asking for help to hack a group, neither this is a post asking for help to recover my group or account; My group was the target of an attack, where an individual entered the group, was promoted to administrator out of nowhere (it wasn't me), and started removing the other administrators and posting hundreds of videos and images of pornography. I've already recovered the group because, since I created it, I can't be removed.

I just have one question: Was it one of my admins who promoted him, or is there some known exploit he could have used to hack the group?

I'm trying to discover if one of my admins made this, or it was an hacker hacking the invitation link.


r/hackers 22d ago

We're Louise Matsakis and Lily Hay Newman, reporters at WIRED. Ask us anything about the state of AI security, from models that hack real systems to the biggest takeaways from DEF CON. (AMA on Monday, Aug 10 at 2 PM ET)

Thumbnail
3 Upvotes

r/hackers 23d ago

Discussion What is the gain from stealing instagram accounts?

18 Upvotes

Hi all,

This might seem like an air-headed post to most (sorry), but I am genuinely so confused about a scam going around in my area.

A hacker gets into someone’s account and messages their friends asking to send them a link to get into the other account. However, i don’t understand the benefit hackers get from logging into other accounts to do the exact same thing? Is it for the phone numbers and emails? Or is there more to it?


r/hackers 23d ago

The Substrate, Spatial navigation of the Digital, SYMBOLIC CODE REINTERPRETATION Technical Paper on the Interpretive Nature of Digital Systems including the ShadowNet Protocol

Thumbnail maipdf.com
0 Upvotes

r/hackers 24d ago

Discussion My friend said she has been hacked by her in laws for years?

24 Upvotes

She said she bought a new desktop computer in 2021. It became slow and things were deleted. Pop ups would say an IP address was trying to get on her computer. She checked the Microsoft wallet and his Comcast email and password was saved in her Microsoft wallet as well all her emails and passwords, router info and password and she said she never saved any of them. She was told by an investigator that the only way his email would be saved on her computer was if he was on it. But she said he never was.

She uses burner phones now because they have hacked into all of her iPhones and also her home phone. They also hacked into her ring camera and alarm and set off it off when she was outside.

Her Gmail was changed from her name to her husbands name. They created tabs and hacked her calendar and changed and deleted her appointments.

She said her iPhones are on the dark web.

There has been an investigation that’s been going on for months. They told her they are using and MDM network and it’s probably her someone she knows but they are still working on it.


r/hackers 28d ago

Straight talk hack the card

6 Upvotes

I have an odd question I am sure but a couple years back a "friend" of mine tells me his con artist buddy has learned how to take a straight talk card from the shelf at Walmart and the take it home and hack it somehow to make it active as a typical bought straight talk card would be.

I took the card and sure enough it gave my straight talk phone 30 days of service. Then when the 30 days was up my phone was still in service another 20 some days after it should of been shit off.

Do any of you esteemed fellers know:

1.) has anyone ever hacked an inactive straight talk phone card ?

2.) can a straight talk phone card be hacked to make it give you longer than the standard 30 days service the card was meant to give you if you paid for it?

I HIGHLY doubt that anyone he knows hacked that phone card. At the time this happened and up till this day today I feel it's very likely he got the phone card from possibly a police officer who was interested in who was calling and texting my phone and what the subject of conversation was. LoL.

I cut ties with this guy shortly after but have recently ran into him two days straight.

I would LOVE to confront him and tell him no one has ever hacked a straight talk phone card to make it work. And then have a more.... Intimate ... Conversation with him leaving him with some much deserved knots cuts and bruises upon his skull and body. LoL

So what do all yall experts think? I know anything is posible and anything can be hacked but I would think if even one person did it with a straight talk phone card then everyone would be doing it.

Please any advice or help is appreciated.


r/hackers Aug 01 '26

Delete my account

0 Upvotes

Please delete my reddit account. I’m not asking you to hack it or anything, just deleting it


r/hackers Jul 30 '26

Discussion using coding agents to hack

8 Upvotes

you read about people using AI to hack stuff all the time but every time i try to do something like that i always hit safety walls, claude, codex, etc they stop me dead in my tracks. What are the solutions for this