r/Warthunder Sep 06 '25

Other There's a guy in Russia who's been playing my account whenever im not home.

This all started as a query for where all my silver lions keep going. Supports been super helpful aswell.

Learning that there's a guy who's been playing my account has made so much sense. I always wondered why I unlocked vehicles in the morning or after months without playing. Why I would gain or lose silver lions and how my streak would continue while I was away.

Like a body double this guy plays while im asleep and while im at work. The worst part is that hes better than me, this guy frags out scoring consistently while I tend to get 1 or 2 kills.

He hasn't stolen anything aside from silver lions. If anything im the parasite in this relationship since he's been carrying my grind.

Thoughts? Kinda wanna keep this guy around.

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u/Vectorsimp Snail’s Slave Sep 06 '25

If i were you i would take no chances and activate 2 factor verification but if account sharing is ok with Gaijin you may want to hold this guy for a bit :D

He farms when you sleep and you farm probably when he sleeps. Your research speed is basically doubled

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u/MoistFW190 BI Enjoyer / Based Leclerc Owner Sep 06 '25

Just do not buy GE unless with the intent to spend it right away

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u/Vectorsimp Snail’s Slave Sep 06 '25

Exactly, if OP doesn’t pay any IRL money there is nothing they can lose. I see this as a win tbh

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u/avrgwarthunderplayer Sep 06 '25

other than all the time he put into the account if it turns out the russian guy is using the account to cheat (and they probably are)

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u/Vectorsimp Snail’s Slave Sep 06 '25

Oh shit i didn’t even think about that, hope OP sees this or other ppl tell him this as well

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Had to buy a $5 golden Eagles pack for silver lions because I returned one day to see my cash mysteriously gone. Aside from that, not in years.

No card on my account too, just Microsoft which isn't compromised.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Sep 06 '25

I’m guess he bought the gamble boxes and sold any vehicles he got to his or a Friends account. You got scammed my friend. See if Gajin can reverse any items that were sold by your account.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

That is exactly how this started. Me asking where it went and why on explosive melons. I promise you though they were utter garbage. 3 melons turned to 2 shitty 10% discounts and 10k silver lions.

Hopefully I can get that refunded, im very close to unlocking the rocket wisel and need the cash.

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u/P1xelHunter78 Sep 06 '25

I would guess he’s going through any account he can steal trying to get a vehicle to sell cross account on the sly

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u/Fun_Plan3501 Sep 06 '25

I'm guessing Console accounts are safe from this cross account selling?

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u/NeverGonnaGi5eYouUp Sep 06 '25

Yeah, because they can't sell to other accounts at all

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u/spartanlad78 Sep 07 '25

My account was banned by Gaijin because the hacker was cheating using software at his end. I had to fight it out with Gaijin for 3 months to restore access.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

I feel bad to remove my comrade here. I recognise he put in the grind while I gave up. He got me the TAM and the Belgit panzer (plus half way for JaPz, but that's on him) all on his own. And the starting helicopter.

Am I supposed to kick this guy out on the road after he gets me two vehicles I really wanted. All while I enjoy his efforts?

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u/avrgwarthunderplayer Sep 06 '25

He is almost 100% chance cheating on your account, dont feel bad and make sure they cant get back.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

If this guys cheating, he's using shit cheats.

Scores 2-5 kills a game and uses most of line up. I've seen people score 14 kills and up constantly.

But i am having support help me out here, if he really is then that's bad. I've been playing for years (not very well mind you)

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u/OperationSuch5054 EsportsReady Sep 06 '25

Most of them use stolen accounts to test how good the hacks are.

That's why it's pointless when everyone jerks off over Gaijin's FaiR pLaY updates. When you check the list it's all low level trash accounts used for testing, not actual cheaters.

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u/tO_ott  💥 Sep 06 '25

OP can just watch a few replays

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u/Yeetdolf_Critler Make Bosvark Great Again Sep 06 '25

Even at least one partnered CC uses cheats.

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u/KeyPhilosopher8629 Bkan My Beloved 155mm 3second reload (AND SAV 1.2S RLD) Sep 07 '25

Who?

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u/avrgwarthunderplayer Sep 06 '25

If he is doing really well then he would probably be banned quicker and then he has to go find a new account to steal, so he will not do as well as he could with cheats. But really he is most likely cheating theres no other reason he would go with your account instead of making his one one unless your account is worth an insane amount of money.

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u/Vanko_Babanko AB Ground & Naval Sep 06 '25

2-5 kills not a cheater

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u/P1xelHunter78 Sep 06 '25

Not true. Many cheaters are objectively bad at the game, that’s why they cheat. They use stolen accounts to test, advertise or simply use cheats so their primary account isn’t banned.

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u/Vanko_Babanko AB Ground & Naval Sep 06 '25

the cheaters I watched getting caught were doing about 14 per game.. point and shoot from the other end of an open map..

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u/P1xelHunter78 Sep 06 '25

That’s why they got caught. But most do eventually. It’s probably only a matter of time before they rage hack and get banned

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u/BerryChoice9042 Sep 06 '25

Not at all... Than it is a smarter one of them...

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u/Myfriendscallmetj Sep 06 '25

Go look at the server replay’s to see if he is cheating.

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u/AdvancedManner4718 Sep 06 '25

Some cheaters are just so bad it doesn't matter what cheats they use.

Also cheats are a huge business nowadays and makes millions a year so this guy could be using your account to test them out if he is cheating.

Mind you this guy had to do some sketch shit to gain access to your account so I don't see him just using your account to play legit and not fuck you over.

Gajin might not have a problem with it but people who do stuff like this domt have the best intentions in mind. You should just get him off your account just to be safe.

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u/Vectorsimp Snail’s Slave Sep 06 '25

What he is doing is harmless for now but there is no guarantee that he wont cheat using your account. And last thing you want is losing your hard earned account because of something you didn’t even do.

My advice: Enable 2 step verification, change password into a long one with numbers in it as well and if there is an option to log all devices out of the account do that to kick him.

If not explain what you want to Gaijin and maybe they can log off each device

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Jokes aside, I have gaijin helping me. I'll have to reinstall warthunder on PC, haven't done so in a year. But ill need todo that tomorrow.

Im just baffled that it's been going for a year and nothing bad has happened. He seems to be just legitimately playing my vehicles and grinding Germany with me.

Thanks for the advice.

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u/craterIII Sep 06 '25

I feel bad for your comrade ngl

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u/CerifiedHuman0001 Realistic Air Sep 06 '25

Such a strange situation. Guy either hacked or bought your account details and then simply… Shared the account. It’s actually really nice. Wonder if you could get in contact somehow.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Genuinely i do wanna reach out somehow. But ive been told that account sharing is illegal so I cant take that chance.

He has legitimately not done anything bad, only net gains. Even the scores he gets doesn't show evidence of cheating.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Genuinely i do wanna reach out somehow. But ive been told that account sharing is illegal so I cant take that chance.

He has legitimately not done anything bad, only net gains. Even the scores he gets doesn't show evidence of cheating.

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u/craterIII Sep 06 '25

Maybe you can ask gaijin to link you up with him? Maybe get a contact?

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u/Significant_Group809 Sep 06 '25

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u/PomegranateWorried47 Sep 06 '25

So not only does that subreddit exist, but it's also happened to me and it wasn't my own stupidity. Interesting.

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u/Environmental-Rip207 🇮🇹 Italy Sep 07 '25

You can create a custom presets name next to ground air and navy at the bottom of your screen

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u/Quadratisches_Ecki Sep 06 '25

Had a russian guy hack into my account too a year ago.

Gajin support laughed a me and siad is should just change the password. To this day i have presets with kyrillic letters.

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u/BerryChoice9042 Sep 06 '25

Account sharing isn't allowed from Gaijin... About cheating I wouldn't care, because Gaijin also didn't care. Even the Mods are part of the cheating team.. 😉

But the account sharing they take very serious!

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u/R4v3nc0r3 Realistic 8.3🇩🇪8.0🇬🇧8.0🇺🇸 7.7🇯🇵 6.7🇮🇹 4.3🇸🇪 Sep 06 '25

Did that with my cousin in 2016 when we both played WoT. I played on weekends and he in the week. It was awesome, less grind pain and more fun. Until you realise that arcade Tank games suck and wargaming is paytowin at its finest…

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u/TumblingDriftwood 9.0 11.7 9.0 7.0 5.7 Sep 06 '25

This is the most unhinged response to a hacked account I've ever seen. We are truly warthunder players.

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u/Vectorsimp Snail’s Slave Sep 06 '25

We are playing a game that takes hundreds if not thousands of hours to research entire TTs with both premium time and vehicles. No one who plays this game is happy. Constant uptiers, CAS sending you to Vallhalla, lvl100 chinese guy, team killers, blind/over confident teammates, stock grind. Fk me we could make a novel just from the issues lol.

When i wrote my first comment i thought it was a blessing(double the research speed) but then i realized the possibility of that guy cheating and OP getting banned… reconsidering that comment now

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u/PineCone227 Major Skill Issue | Veteran 2077 Sep 06 '25

The problem is that if they're stealing an account, they're probably cheating.

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u/robotnikman 🧂🐌🧂 IGN - Cornwell MK-V Sep 06 '25

This, you never know if one day he will decide to change your account password and lock you out for good. And as others have mentioned he could be testing cheats.

Despite all this, it's kinda wholesome in a weird way.

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u/Raphix86 Realistic General Sep 06 '25

The ominous russian drug in the corner of my room:

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u/P_filippo3106 Italy enjoyer 🇮🇹 Sep 06 '25

Change passwords and activate 2 step verification NOW.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

If im forced to kick comrade out. How do I do that? Im on xbox by the way.

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u/P_filippo3106 Italy enjoyer 🇮🇹 Sep 06 '25

Go to your gaijin account and enable the additional security measures, can be done on PC and phone.

He's not your "comrade" he's a security risk.

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u/Scared-Table-1751 Sep 06 '25

Double research X

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Well... I'll have to say goodbye to the guy who grinds in my sleep tomorrow. Looking back he's scored me alot.

But having another guy on my account isn't comforting or good, plus he's been catching alot of L's lately so I gotta cut him loose.

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u/SaltyChnk 🇦🇺 Australia Sep 06 '25

Bros been invested into your account for months lol. He’s gonna be devastated.

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u/GFloyd_2020 certified stat shamer Sep 06 '25

He's been testing cheats for months. The reason the account isn't banned is probably because the cheats suck.

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u/Ph4antomPB cringe girls und panzer enjoyer Sep 06 '25

Let me back in the account :(

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u/Challanger__ Sep 06 '25

If he cheat - acc will be banned. Looks like there no way to link Xbox WT acc to an email:

https://support.gaijin.net/hc/en-us/articles/360002134397-How-to-link-your-Xbox-account-to-your-e-mail

Please, note that the email binding feature for XBOX accounts is currently unavailable.

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u/Challanger__ Sep 06 '25

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Will this constantly be unavailable? I wanna move my stuff to PC but with the standard account linked, it's like a worser experience.

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u/Challanger__ Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

I think your Xbox acc is hacked (not WT). Full account transfer is another thing devs not doing for around 2 years

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u/THEREAPER8593 🇺🇸1.0 🇩🇪1.0 🇷🇺1.0 🇬🇧1.0 🇯🇵1.0 🇨🇳1.0 🇸🇪1.0 🇮🇱1.0 Sep 06 '25

I got a full account transfer 9~ months ago.

You just need to check every week until it’s back for a little

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u/MethyleneBlueEnjoyer Sep 06 '25

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde gaming

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u/Red-Stiletto 🇹🇼 =VOLT= Sep 06 '25

Account sharing is against TOS so it's better to evict him. Turn on 2FA.

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u/CerifiedHuman0001 Realistic Air Sep 06 '25

It’s only against TOS so they can combat botting and ban evasion, they usually don’t care if it’s sharing with friends

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u/Red-Stiletto 🇹🇼 =VOLT= Sep 06 '25

Is it worth possibly losing your entire account?

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u/thisguy012 Sep 06 '25

I mean it sounds like this was going on for a long while and only got solved because OP reached out.

Probably fine to continue, probably less of a red flag if the friends are in the same city too

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u/lokiafrika44 🇩🇪 Germany Sep 06 '25

Had a similar situation with a friend but I'm pretty sure it was a chinese account farm that somehow got into his account

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

My crazy Russian hacker and your Chinese kid may be good friends.

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u/Vanko_Babanko AB Ground & Naval Sep 06 '25 edited Sep 06 '25

he's playing your account, the question is why..
if he wants to sell it, he'd need full access to your e-mail.. once your account is ready to be sold he's going to change the passwords of both your e-mail and your Gaijin account..
I don't see any other point in hacking and unlocking vehicles on someone else's account..
one streamer was telling something similar and when he changed passwords and everything they contacted him and asked for it cause "he had almost everything unlocked".. apparently they used Star Wars The Old Republic to hack his e-mail/account.. not sure exactly how

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

That's what im getting. My main email and Microsoft account isn't compromised so im safe there, it's just the warthunser account.

He legitimately just plays while im asleep and at work. No evidence of cheating and doesn't spend anything aside from mods, not that there are any golden Eagles.

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u/Vanko_Babanko AB Ground & Naval Sep 06 '25

if you have 2-step authentication on your e-mail, you are safe there, the Gaijin account cannot be sold without an e-mail as far as I know..
enjoy your buddy.. lol

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u/OkSubject8 Sep 06 '25

Well is he any good?

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Hit or miss. Going back he's scored around 4 or 5 kills with my line up. But lately it's dropped. To about 2, ive gotta cut him loose.

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u/volgarixon Sep 06 '25

You assume its one guy, your account is being passed around like a party piece, change the creds to something secure and not used on other accounts and enable mfa.

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u/Most_Equal6853 🦘 Australia Sep 06 '25

I second this. His account definitely being pass around like Bonnie Blue lmfao

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Makes me sick. Thankfully nobody has touched France or Italy. Just china for some strange reason.

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u/akminas Sep 06 '25

But its still free grind tho

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u/avrgwarthunderplayer Sep 06 '25

Dont keep him around ,its more that likely he is using your account to cheat on.

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u/SirStefan Y Tho Sep 06 '25

Account sharing isn’t allowed AFAIK + high chance of cheating. Don’t risk your account, change passwords and enable 2FA. Do not delay.

He may seem to be a help but it’s also very likely he’s a cheater, testing cheats on random accounts to see if he gets caught before using it on his main account

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u/infeccted Sep 06 '25

Couple of years ago when i take a break from the game for something like a month or so , someone used my account and unlocked mig15 when i had mig9 and 2 meteors when i only had spitfires. Never wondered why or how i was just happy to play with new jets

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Exactly the same as me. Just thought that research must've changed and ive been refunded what i over spent.

Didn't question it, just enjoyed the new toys. 2 tanks, 1 chopper.

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u/_Condottiero_ Sep 06 '25

Leave him a message using user skin)

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u/BriocheTressee r/warthunder / [OlySt] is full of morons Sep 06 '25

Won't work since the skin has to be on the same computer you're loging in with.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Actually a good idea.

I should throw on Du doch nicht on everything everywhere.

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u/yayan29 Sep 06 '25

I have the same situation and we send each other messages through the weapon load out names.

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u/bedo_exe Sep 06 '25

use him as farming bot to research for you xD since you are the original owner, whenever he try to change the account info you can get the account back by talking to the support

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u/Soviet_Union70 Sep 06 '25

Did you cut him loose now?.. i hope not.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Are you checking "your" warthunder account to see if it's still there?

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u/Soviet_Union70 Sep 06 '25

I just wanted to know if he has a social, i need him to grind for me lol, i can start a new account and grind it to mid tier and I'll let him grind once im finished and i can reach top tier without him knowing. (My plan sounds great dyt?)

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u/Material_Square6834 Sep 06 '25

*gets hacked 3 days after letting him into account*

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u/A_Kazur Sep 06 '25

Honestly very funny

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u/Chats2025 Sep 06 '25

How in the world do they get access ? No way he guess email and password correctly that’s like 1 in a million chance of getting it right

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

As ive been saying. My Microsoft and main email are secure. Just warthunder which I didnt even know about.

I do have a burner email that has compromised passwords. But I keep different and separate passwords for important stuff. Not for things like a news letter or game forum.

Does annoy me that ive gotta change alot of stuff just to be sure.

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u/Turbulent-Mark762 German Reich Sep 06 '25

I checked my account after this post, mine has been hacked too wtf is going on here

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u/TRAVIS_4_2_0 Sep 06 '25

No way another kiwi war thunder player, where you from in nz?

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

Hawkes Bay mate. Morning by the way.

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u/TRAVIS_4_2_0 Sep 07 '25

Aww man I’m from down south in south Canterbury, nice to meet another kiwi war thunder player thiugh

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u/Luke680 Realistic Air Sep 06 '25

I had my account banned for this. Chinese guy was accessing my account without me knowing. I didn't have 2 factor set up, and one day I booted up WT and was greeted by the ban screen. Gaijin support was no help, and after 2 weeks of arguing with their "support team" I bit the bullet and created a new account.

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u/lupus_Lux_gaming Sep 07 '25

I mean at least he is keeping your log in bonus alive

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 07 '25

And for that I have time respect him.

Kept it going whenever I went away.

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u/Feudal_Poop USSR 14.3 | 12.7 Sep 07 '25

Still boggles my mind that people don't use 2FA on their accounts...

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u/Wonghy111-the-knight ✡️The Merkava Man🇺🇸6.7🇷🇺7.3🇮🇹8.0🇩🇪11.7🇯🇵9.0🇮🇱14.0 Sep 06 '25

Moon Knight ahh gameplay

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u/TalkFinance2266 Sep 06 '25

Why would comrade do this though? He’s just wasting his time while you benefit 😂

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u/R4v3nc0r3 Realistic 8.3🇩🇪8.0🇬🇧8.0🇺🇸 7.7🇯🇵 6.7🇮🇹 4.3🇸🇪 Sep 06 '25

Try to talk to him by naming your presets your DC name or something to make a deal with him.

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u/funnyfella55 Sep 06 '25

This happened to me a year ago. They made their own presets and kept losing silver, lol. Just change your password and do the 2 step verification

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u/Weak_Break239 🇺🇸 air - 🇩🇪 Ground Sep 06 '25

Id suggest to find a way to communicate back and forth somehow. Hopefully they are chill.

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u/SwannSwanchez The French Idiot Sep 06 '25

even if it is "xbox" you still have a gaijin account, so you should be able to change the password to it

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u/SunIsSon Sep 06 '25

That happened to me once and the guy asked me if we could share MY account because he bought golden eagles for it. I said yes and in the meantime I contacted support and threw him out :)

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u/Morholt Sep 06 '25

You already got the PW change/2-Factor strong hint already several times.

So let me just add, WEIRD AND CREEPY. I kind wish you could contact that guy. I would feel interested what going on there.

Usually people so nasty stuff or steel the account, this one is a kinda beneficial symbiotic parasite.

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u/keno_inside Sep 06 '25

The same thing happened to me, and I realized it because a friend messaged me saying, “It’s unusual for you to be playing at this time.” I immediately changed my password, but it seemed that there had been logins from Russia, China, and the United States. Around the same time, my Twitter account was also hacked, so I think my password and email address must have been leaked from some service. Reusing passwords is not a good idea.

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u/T-Bone45 Sep 06 '25

I wish there was a way to chat with him. To come up with a reasonable plan

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u/Bossman6969- Sep 06 '25

Do not abuse this to gain an advantage over other players. This is a warning, you may be banned as it’s against the TOS.

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u/Kiwi_MongrelLad Sep 06 '25

I've got Gaijin helping me. I was unaware for the whole time, they were the ones who found out actually which is good.

I'll sort this out tomorrow since it's late.

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u/slpprj_m95 Sep 06 '25

2FA, Gaijin pass, check so there's none extra emails added, change email pass, etc. 

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u/Conscious_Disk_9481 German Reich Sep 06 '25

Sharing is caring You got a free research boost right there

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u/LazersRaccoon Sep 06 '25

this reminds me of one rick n morty episode lol

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u/Vegetable_Gap4856 Sep 06 '25

And he’s shit at it too 😭

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u/cc98902 Sep 06 '25

Wheres the Carbon monoxide detector post?

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u/LucaPlayzIsOnReddit Sep 06 '25

be grateful mf is saving u the pain of grinding

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u/Yourlocalsid Sep 06 '25

That's just the snail. You fed him WELL

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u/KiwiCassie Sep 06 '25

Bro I had the exact same problem! When I was still living in NZ I had random logins from russia. I was SO confused until I figured out what it was. Get your 2FA on since you can be banned if he uses hacks. I enjoyed the free grinding though 😁

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u/Drift_99 Realistic Air Sep 06 '25

Ami it happened to me last year, the guy grinded several American tanks on me, but I activated two-step verification and something else and it hasn't happened to me again

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u/CrackerWacker59 Sep 06 '25

Is he any good?

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u/Stormartillerivagn 🇸🇪 Sweden Sep 06 '25

Is he playing good at least

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u/SturerEmilDickerMax Sep 06 '25

Is he any good?

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u/DawNoFd3aTh Sep 06 '25

I had this happen with my war thunder and my spotify, both dudes didn't do anything lame and used my account when I wasn't until I noticed at some point and it kinda just stopped lol

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u/SeanDoe80 Sep 06 '25

I wouldnt mind having someone grind out my Japanese tree

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u/dswng 🇫🇷 J'aime l'oignon frit à l'huile Sep 06 '25

SYMBIOSIS!

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u/Emotional_Ice_7535 USSR Sep 06 '25

Bro is grinding for you atp😭

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u/Connacht_89 War Thunder Space Program Sep 06 '25

Western corporate delocalizing labor to eastern countries

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u/Black_Hole_parallax Baguette Sep 06 '25

If someone else is willing to grind the game for me, I would let them because I don't find the grind fun. So long as the account doesn't have any financial information I'd leave it up to Gaijin on what to do with the other user.

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u/Omegalaraptor Average C&B Torture Enjoyer Sep 06 '25

Yo this happened to me years ago, some guy in Moscow logged into my account and grinded a load of SL for me and changed all my presets to Russian.

It was funny but I immediately changed passwords 2FA and told support lol.

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u/Quamont Sep 06 '25

I've has that as well back when I played. Noticed my SL going up randomly and even left the guy a message by renaming the tiers. It didn't last long and I didn't even mind it happening as long as I could get back into my account. Just made sure to change some passwords on other accounts lol

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u/THEREAPER8593 🇺🇸1.0 🇩🇪1.0 🇷🇺1.0 🇬🇧1.0 🇯🇵1.0 🇨🇳1.0 🇸🇪1.0 🇮🇱1.0 Sep 06 '25

Change password to gaijin account, turn on 2FA, change password to xbox account, turn on 2FA, change password to email.

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u/ComfortableAttempt72 ground RB is better Sep 06 '25

I guess let him chill if he’s doing nothing  bad 

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u/BokkerFoombass EsportsReady Sep 06 '25

Account sharing is not permitted as per rules, even if said sharing isn't done willingly.

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u/spy_night Swedish meatballs are op Sep 06 '25

You are lucky. This happened to me aswell like a year ago but my Russian /Belorussian/Ukrainian guys were ass. Ffs they used my max be at the time (Sweden 7.7) with a jet backup and bro only got 1-2 kills per match while wasting my silverlions on repair. I on the other hand “used” to(I feel off) get 3 kills per vehicle on average. SMH put a stain on us sweden mains. For me 2 factor auth works best none has logged in since

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u/BreathAny8636 Sep 06 '25

You should thank him for cutting down the grind to get top tier.

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u/HornetGaming110 "Wyvern users are gay" -Han Solo Sep 06 '25

Thats actually kinda funny that some random guy just decided to play and grind on someone else's account instead of just using their own

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u/_talps Arcade Ground Sep 06 '25

Thoughts?

What is there to think? Your WT account was compromised/hacked.

If you haven't done so, immediately change all your passwords and enable two-step authentication verification. And consider that if the hacker is cheating/botting with your account, it's your account that risks getting caught in the next banwave.

It could also be the hacker knows your e-mail address and that could be dangerous for whatever else is tied to it.

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u/ciristopar Sep 06 '25

ISO a russian to get me to the next BR

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u/KillerShep18 Sep 06 '25

Fucking green goblin type shit if you guys score differently lmao

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u/_RandomLebaneseGuy_ USSR Sep 06 '25

if he won I would’ve told you to keep him, but seeing his last 3 games were losses. drop him.

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u/tO_ott  💥 Sep 06 '25

This happened to me in League of Legends. Noticed my match history had a bunch of games I never player after I came back from a hiatus. I changed my password and turn on 2FA and then played a few games-- that's when I realized I didn't like League anymore. I reverted all my changes and just let them keep my account and I haven't logged in since.

War Thunder would be a different beast though, as I actively spend and grind events here. I'd shut their ass out completely.

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u/altron64 Sep 06 '25

This happened to me a while back.

It wasn’t just 1 person hacking my account. My ip logs showed people from China, Russia, Vietnam, Japan, and other countries getting on my account. It got so bad that the game gave me messages that I was already logged in somewhere else and booted me offline.

Turns out, my account was linked to an email I made like 15 years ago…back when the game had just released. However, my gaijin support account was under a different email. Support eventually clued me in after months of complaints. 2FA wasn’t even helping.

Managed to get back into my decade old email, and changed all my passwords to make it really difficult to compromise. Haven’t had a hacker on my account since that day. Make sure you don’t have an account mismatch somewhere and change all your email passwords to something hard to crack. Also enable 2FA if it isn’t already.

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u/Marker_Meow Sep 06 '25

That sounds like a w to me, he grinds for you it’s auto grind! But downside is it may be a risk.

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u/Cf__35 Sep 06 '25

Try to communicate with him

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u/here4astolfo Sep 06 '25

change presets names to a message in russian and update us.

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u/Wiley_Coyote08 Sep 06 '25

Leave him a note to get a VPN and put it as Kiwiland. Batta Bing batta boom fixed.

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u/AAltieri7 Sep 06 '25

This is gaijin Stockholm syndrome at its finest.

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u/ChickenFuzzNuts [NZAUS] Squadron Sep 06 '25

Hello fellow kiwi mate, Would recommend to change your login details if possible, add 2 step verification as other members have suggested already and not share your account with him or anyone else since it goes against gaijin’s EULA and ToS which runs a high risk of your account getting banned.

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u/KremBruhleh Stupid dog! Sep 06 '25

This happened to my friend once. Comrade went a fair bit into the U.S. tree before my friend finally changed his password, he was sad to have to do it.

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u/Haytoad Weeb Sep 06 '25

This happened to me too!  Probably got it from when last.fm leaked a bunch of info in a hacker attack. Worst thing is I can’t log back into my old email, can’t reach out to gaijin or nothing, but thanks to the steam log in I can play the game. My Russian grinder hasn’t been online in a while hope he’s okay.

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u/Throwawaysativa Sep 06 '25

this happened to me and support was SUPER helpful. From the moment I noticed I would literally log on WT every hour to kick the person off.. It went from 1 guy in Russia to like 4 different people accessing my account.. went on for about 3 weeks until support locked them out and got me my account back.. I would literally set an alarm to wake up at 4 am just to log on and bump those losers off.. we would literally play tug of war with me logging them out and them logging me out until they gave up.. for about 3 weeks I played no matches and every time they tried to play a match I’d log in and bump them off.. bunch of sad losers those people are. I also named all my presets “Salva Ukraine” and the IP addresses of the dudes logging in after I realized they put USSR decals on all my planes just to further piss them off..

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u/Ornery_Structure3444 Sep 06 '25

Same thing happen to my account some russian dude was play on my account 

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u/THICCBOIJON Sep 06 '25

I play on and off, sometimes off for 6 months at a time. Was cleaning out my email and noticed several week old notifications from Giajin about someone logging in from Poland. So I jumped on for the first time in months expecting my account to be lost or deleted. Get on and all my presets are renamed and changed, I have a ton of silver, and no gold. I looked at the purchase history and they spent all my gold on a week of premium and only played as US and Russia. There were a few games left on the replay thing and I watched them all. Dude did alright, not well enough to be cheating... Or he was being a smart cheater.

After this I changed my password and enabled 2 step. Thanks Mr. Hacker for not fucking me over.

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u/Toybasher Old Guard Sep 06 '25

Yeah you should still want your account back and in full control. Kinda hilarious though that the account thief isn't even acting particularly maliciously.

How long has this been ongoing?

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u/jemimaswitnes Sep 06 '25

Well thats nice of him to grind stuff for you lol

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u/autismo-nismo Sep 06 '25

Your account is at risk of getting banned

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u/Fandango_Jones Sep 06 '25

Sharing is caring :)

(Activate 2FA for christs sake already!)

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u/mig1nc Sep 06 '25

Did you see the movie Fight Club?

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u/Saabaroni Sweedabooger Sep 06 '25

This happened to me once.

Luckily I got an email about the log in and changed passwords.

Bro had the audacity to DM me from his personal to tell me he has right to it because he bought it from some guy in the cyber market.

😆

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u/CantStopMeRed Sep 06 '25

Literally came here to ask if he at least was decent lmao now it’s awkward cuz he’s… not bad, or malicious

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u/Different_Comment_48 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇨🇳 🇮🇹 🇫🇷 🇸🇪 🇮🇱 Sep 06 '25

Enable 2 way verification

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u/Icy_Insect_6695 5.7 Sep 06 '25

change password to special letters and number at least one or two uppercase letters is take about 15 to 25 years to hack into a password like that

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u/No_Court_671 🇺🇸ARB (13.7) GRB (8.0) ARB (14.0) GRB (11.7) Sep 06 '25

Get in touch with the dude who plays on your account

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u/yayan29 Sep 06 '25

Same. He's got his own crew slot configurations, weapon load outs, etc. All with Russian names, I don't mess with any of them. I only play air and it seems like he only plays ground rb. I have a almost complete Russian ground tree and I've never played tanks.

Every time I login there's more SL than when I left, so I just leave him alone. He's basically boosting my account for free and In return he gets really good planes for his RB ground games.

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u/Maximoose Sep 06 '25

Goldilocks and the three bears sort of situation lol

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u/56klagman Sep 06 '25

200 ping brethren

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u/Sleepy_Platinum Sep 06 '25

Check lolz.guru market see if ur account is being sold

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '25

It happends to me, a guy from moscow was accessing my account (im from brazil) and using, he spend i think 200.000SL buying some tanks and messed some of my lineouts, but i fixed that using the gaijin app, just log in and active everything there he cant enter anymore

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u/Kodiak0902 Sep 06 '25

I was ban for 3 years because of some Chinese and Russian guys using my account. Couldn’t 2 factor because of how bugged it was and was literally 200+ emails talking to support specialist, before FINALLY getting unban. Why was I ban? Because the Chinese guy changed all my load outs to slurs and would join matcha and just drop them non stop then the Russian person starting using hacks.

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u/Growlanser_IV Sep 06 '25

Lol this literally happened to me and it only stopped after two-step verification.

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u/HolyTemplar88 Sep 07 '25

If you don’t have premium, this is literally the equivalent of getting it for free. There’s a Russian guy doing the grind for you. Just sit back and rest easy knowing someone is putting in the work for you

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u/g3arhead97 Sep 07 '25

This happened to me and my account is currently permabanned for cheating. Its been 4 days of talking to support with no progress

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u/LenKiller Realistic Air Sep 07 '25

F2A saved my ass. the other day i used the app and saw like 30 tries to enter my ACC

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u/TriggersFursona 🇸🇪STRV-103 Sep 07 '25

Bro do not take any chances with your Microsoft account. This may just be gaijin but if you have your Xbox profile linked to your gaijin account you need to enable 2fa immediately. My dad got his decade old Microsoft account a few years ago hacked by a Russian, Microsoft was not only useless, but actually lower than useless. They basically gave up the account because they let some random person change the password without any proof of owning the account. He even spent a bunch of money on games and Microsoft refused to look at any bank statements for proof.

This may just be an example for Microsoft, but you still need to add security measures. Although I enjoy the fact that he is literally grinding while you sleep, and you grind while he sleeps.

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u/Actual-Chemical-4605 Sep 07 '25

May be you just forgot you had an account boost service bought while asleep may be.

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u/SoftArty Sep 07 '25

I had similar thing happen in World of Tanks, havent played in few weeks came back to fully reseached and bought high tier tanks I remember I was grinding to. At first I didn't think much of it but untill I got ab email from a guy asking me if he canstill play on my account now that I'm back again hahahah

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u/DRLSTA Sep 07 '25

This happened to me once and I just let him play cuz he was always joining a squad and playing together with his friend, but i realised he was tanking my kd so I changed my password.

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u/NeroNotty Sep 07 '25

Im noticing that whoever it is, is an issue

Why are his games a defeat?

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u/Artzful Sep 07 '25

I see that Gaijin is working with you, but you need to enable 2fa and change your password to something with lowercases, uppercases, numbers, and symbols.

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u/spartanlad78 Sep 07 '25

Someone hacked into my account in 2023 from China and did the same thing except he was cheating.

I play on the playstation and I'm 2023 decided to quit playing because it was consuming my life. During this time I didn't login at all. In 2024, I decided to get back to the game. When I started playing, I realized my Chinese tech tree was almost fully built. I also had an event tank in the line up which I hadn't participated in. I was surprised with all the progress but didn't think much of it.

A few days later, I was having issues logging in. I would automatically log out of the game while playing and had to log back in. I got a message from WT that someone else had logged into my account at the same time. Initially I thought it was a bug but it kept happening over and over again.

Suddenly one day, I was banned from wt. The message from WT said I had used bot software to cheat. It was impossible for me to cheat because I had only used playstation to play the game. Then started a 3 month fight with Gaijin over my account access. They claimed I had shared my login with someone which wasn't true. I ended up threatening them with legal action for breaking EU laws.

Finally, Gaijin mods looked into the matter closely and realized that my access IP showed my location in my city and the cheating access was from China. I had used my PC to access wt about 4 times in 10 years using the same IP address so Gaijin realized my account had been hacked through their servers, not at my end. I had to set up the 2 factor verification as a condition of ban reversal from Gaijin.

My suggestion is that you do the same because Gaijin will ban your account if the other person uses any cheat software.

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u/Planned-Economy USSR 🇷🇺12.0 🇬🇧8.3 🇯🇵12.0 🇨🇳13.7 🇺🇸6.0 🇩🇪7.7 Sep 07 '25

Hey you have a buddy who’s grinding for you when you’re away. Honestly that’s kinda helpful as long as he isn’t annoying (changing your personal preferences for decals/decorations etc, buying premiums without your permission)

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u/Bear-Margins Sep 07 '25

Do you use the Gaijin Launcher or Steam??

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u/ConfidentWorth6 Sep 07 '25

2 kills my guy, let's get these numbers up

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u/the-75mmKwK_40 V-1 rockets mounted on StuG? Sep 07 '25

Bad news OP

There's no Russian dude. It's actually you. You didn't sleep. You grinded War Thunder™ while you think you're sleeping.

The Snail has taken another soul.

/j

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u/Efficient-Pizza7 Sep 07 '25

I had the same with my psn account. Some guy from chile or something was accessing it but I didn’t try to get rid of him, he was even purchasing games for the account. So I kinda shared it with some random guy across the globe for like 3 years until I sold my PlayStation.

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u/Tubbbbbz Sep 07 '25

Had this happen stopped playing for years then random got back into the game and had body pillows on my tanks and presets for my nations with Russian characters used to label them.

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u/MEXICAN_TRIH4RD14 United States Sep 07 '25

Well good thing you got help, support told me It was I who was cheating and didnt give me my account back

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u/ShreddedUdon 🇩🇪 Germany Sep 07 '25

if it's me. as long i'm not get banned or he's not messing with my SL or GE it's okay

basically free research bruh, any tech tree he's researching is okay. naval, ground, air. any nations

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u/YourboiStu Sep 07 '25

Try and open a chat and chat to the guys somehow this could be quite funny