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Sonic Paradox YouTube Channel Hacked; 10/10/2014
Topic Started: Friday Oct 10 2014, 12:57 PM (18,434 Views)
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You may have already read this on TSSZ. However, to spread the word of what happened, it's being posted here too.

It’s been something we have been trying to sort out for well over a month or two now. A user had hacked into two emails of our higher-ups that are connected to many things such as YouTube, gaming accounts, et cetera. They changed the email and passwords associated with them to their own account. We’ve been able to recover everything except one. Our YouTube channel.

Nothing was messed with on the channel for a long time. There’s one reason and one reason alone why we haven’t been able to recover the account. Google just won’t help us. They hung up on us, kept us waiting for long periods of time, and offered little to no advice on what to do. Then in the past few days the avatar was tinkered with. That was the final straw that provoked us into making this public. It was hoped that, since no videos or content was messed with, we could sort this out behind the scenes with little trouble and the affair would blow over. Unfortunately that isn’t the case.

So what does this mean for us? We have no other choice but to make a new YouTube channel and re-upload everything on there. Our partners have said they’ll stick with us. When we do make the channel we’ll let you know and you can spread the word as much as possible. As for our original channel who knows? Maybe we’ll get it back somehow. Maybe we won’t. That’s still up in the air.

Now I don’t normally do this. I feel it’s against my news reporting standards here. But there’s some words I need to get off my chest. I’d like to say this to the person who hacked our channel:

Many people have told us our content helped cheered them up from a bad day, from depression even. Sometimes even more severe cases. Some have told us that it inspired them. That channel has brought five to six years of content that made multitudes of people laugh. Many of them. Our content took months, sometimes even years to develop. All those laughs, those happy faces, those inspirations, that hard work. You have robbed that from people all of this. And for what? A laugh? For money? For attention? Well one thing is for sure. You got attention. And let me tell you this right now it’s not good attention. But you know what? You will not stop us from bringing people the entertainment, the laughs, the inspiration. We’ll keep making that hard work because we have fun doing it and our fans love what we do. You may have thrown away the YouTube channel of Sonic Paradox but you haven’t thrown away the faces behind it. We’ll be back and better than ever whether you want it or not. We will not let the selfish desires of a kid ruin the entertainment, laughter, and hard work that has been brought to people’s computers for so many years. You hacked a channel that did nothing more than provide parodies of a speedy blue hedgehog made from a video game company. Nothing more. It’s not like we were political or religious in our content. We parodied video game content. But what saddens me most of all: we let our fans down. And it’s going to take a while to recover. We’re not in it for the money, we’re in it for the fans. And as long as you keep our channel hostage you are not one of them. We’re coming back not for you but our fans. Because I’m sure they would want us to come back. We’re not going anywhere. We’re just going to be stronger than ever. And, hopefully, our fans will join us for the ride whether you like it or not.
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Sonicyay2
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too late, i beat you to it.
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Seriously, though! This stinks! Luckily, lots of people know of this now. Let's get everything back to normal!
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Wow, this sucks. This is hard to hear, and begs the question what would someone want with the Sonic Paradox accounts? Either way, I haven't a doubt that the new channel's gonna be stronger than ever. I'm still wondering how this happened, though, and what could be done to prevent it from happening a second time...
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Make a stronger password system that whoever the fridge was may never burst through.

I also heard that from TheWax (DeviantART).

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Google just won’t help us. They hung up on us, kept us waiting for long periods of time, and offered little to no advice on what to do.


DeviantART also didn't help in brining back GamerXZ0's (a friend of mine) account. XZ0 was falsely banned I tell you (presumably for harassment)! :punchtails:
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Holy crud. This is horrible.

Well, as soon as the new channel is up I'll happily re-sub as well as letting others know it's the legit account.
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Make a stronger password system that whoever the fridge was may never burst through.

I also heard that from TheWax (DeviantART).
It wasn't about the fact that it wasn't a strong password, it had gone so far as to hack MULTIPLE accounts. I'm not talking just two or three of them... no no.

This was someone trying to attack Sonic Paradox at it's core... that's how severe it is.
Edited by ShadowRemix, Saturday Oct 11 2014, 10:14 PM.
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I bet the hacker is just some whiny 13-year old trying to get attention.
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What will be the channels new name
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Tuesday Oct 14 2014, 06:17 PM
What will be the channels new name
This currently hasn't been decided yet.

As we have more updates we will let the community know. XD
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Name it the "Paradox inquisition", "SegaParadox", "or "Sonic breaks the paradox" XD
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Sonic Paradox.



What? The old one was called TheSonicParadoxTeam.
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Aw that sucks. No wonder why you never a new sonic shorts.
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Uh, I have a hypothetical guess...


Sorry, if it may not lead to any conclusions... :(
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o.O Didnt realized. I thought the channel was dead xD
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So, does anyone know anything new about this?
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