Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24170167-20151017050303

If you have been kind of inactive the past few days, you're probably super confused as to what's going on here. Well, here it goes.

It all started on Saturday, about a week ago. I logged onto my account, as normal. It felt like a normal day. Then...something weird started to happen. I would look at my notifications, and I would have, like 12. Then, a few minutes later, I would look at them again and I would only have 4 or 5.

I just thought it was a glitch, so I ignored it. But then, I saw something even more weird. Someone was posting things using my account. And they weren't posting very nice things.

I was being hacked right in front of my eyes.

The hacker was posting things like 'I'm a meld' and 'I hate you all' and they were even posting swear words. Then, they posted the words 'HACKED BY PEPPA'.

If I was smart, I would have changed my password. But I'm not a smart girl. So instead, I shut off my laptop and made a sandwich.

Yes, I know it sounds stupid, but that's just what I do whenever I panic.

Well, after I finished my sandwich, I decided to get on my Club Penguin account to make a new video for my Youtube. I was right in the middle of my video when I lost connection. I logged back on a few minutes later to see if it was working again - and all my coins were spent, and all my puffles were killed.

That's when I realized - I had the same password for every single one of my accounts. How stupid of me! If someone figured out one password, they could figure out every password. Stupid me.

I was starting to freak out by this point. So I spent an hour - a solid HOUR - on my computer, changing every single one of my passwords. I changed my email, my gmail, my youtube, my wikia, my club penguin, my quotev, my movie star planet, my facebook, my snapchat, my words with friends, and my pinterest (which doesn't even make sense because Peppa doesn't even know I have a quotev, movie star planet, facebook, snapchat, words with friends, or pinterest).

Ever since that day, I was paranoid. I was changing all my passwords every three hours. I would be in the middle of a movie, and all of a sudden I would just start freaking out, and I would take out my phone to change all my passwords again. I couldn't sleep at all. I would wake up in the middle of the night, and I wouldn't go back to sleep until all my passwords were changed again.

And Peppa got Artgurl's password too! She changed her password too, though, so we were both safe.

I sent an email to Wikia on Monday. I thought it was a good idea - they could moniter our wiki and make sure everything was normal. But that turned out to be the biggest mistake I could've made.

They sent me back an email on Wednesday. This is what it said:

Hello,

Thanks for contacting Wikia. It seems that Artgirl was the user behind this. They somehow got your password (did you give it to them accidentally?) then signed in as you, vandalized, then signed back in as themself claiming they were also hacked, then said they were fine after resetting their password. The thing is: this was all done on the same IP. So, if it was fine after resetting the PW and the IP was the same, it was them the whole time.

I see from the logs you reset your PW. Are you in control of your account now?

Timothy Collins Community Technical Support

So apparently Artgurl was the hacker, and she was blocked from Wikia for a year. I sent Wikia another email asking if they could please re-check their facts again, but the email that I got back was pretty much the same. The computer that posting the words 'hacked by peppa' on my account was the same computer that posted the words 'i changed my password, i'm fine' on Artgurl's account.

And the worst part is that I believed them! Then I did something I'm not proud of - I was bullying Artgurl. She was using an alternate account, Chicken4chicken, since she was blocked on her Artgurl3232 account. I was saying things like 'stop acting like you're innocent' and 'just leave already, no one trusts you anymore'. If I was her, then I would have quit. I probably would have quit club penguin too. But Artgurl didn't quit. She came on every day, claiming she was innocent, even though no one believed her. Not a single person believed her. Every single person on this wiki hated her. But she stayed anyway.

Yesterday, Chicken4chicken posted a very long letter. This is what it said (Artgurl is Lauren, by the way)  This message is sent directly from Lauren’s sister, no jokes. You may be questioning who Lauren is. Well, Lauren is the girl (I forget her username) who was hacked by “Peppa”. I heard all about Peppa, Lauren told me he vandalized pages, cyberbullied wikians on a Youtube channel, and claims he has hacked her account. Though Lauren doesn’t know this yet, Peppa wasn’t the one who hacked her account. I hacked it.

 Now, you may be asking yourself “How could you do such a thing” or “this is so fake”. Well, Lauren doesn’t even know I am sending this message, I just heard that this girl who is called “Pookieluv” has been mean to her, so I decided to step right up and post this message I have been wanting to say for ages on her Message Wall.

 Here is how the story goes: One day, I was misbehaving and my mom grounded me, taking my electronics away, which included my computer. Since I really wanted to watch a video, I took Lauren’s computer without her permission when she was brushing her teeth, and hid it under my pillow. When Lauren was fast asleep, I took out her laptop and watched the video.

 Although I was happy, I wanted to play a prank on the Club Penguin Pookie Wikians. Since I didn’t have a wikia account, I decided to do something very cruel. Using Lauren’s account.

 What I did was pretended I was Peppa and was very cruel to other wikia users. Oddly enough, I guessed Pookieluv’s password, and since I went through old threads some time ago, I saw that your password slipped when you asked someone to create a CPPS account for you. You asked for the password to be watermelon333, and sure enough, that was your password to your wikia account (I heard you changed it). The thing is, I didn’t read your notifications recently either, so my guess is that it is a glitch.

 I knew the prank was mean, but I didn’t think it would go this far. Apparently, from what Lauren told me, she was blocked by wikia for a year by thinking Lauren was the one posting mean stuff. I was too much of a coward to tell her, but the real issue was that her account was used by the same IP address (since I was using her computer), and other users thought Lauren was bullying people, so they targeted her. I heard you were the one bullying her the most. I really hope you believe me and apologize to Lauren. I will tell her the incident immediately after I send this message.

 I am so sorry I have played this prank, and I hope we can collaborate again in the future.

 Sincerely, Lauren’s older sister.

So it was Artgurl's sister the whole time.

I felt horrible.

So now we all have to help Artgurl get unblocked. Do you think we can do it? I think we can, if we all email Wikia together. Tell them the whole story - you can even copy and paste this if you want, just make sure to explain the parts they might not understand. Tell them about how all the wikians are emailing you the same thing - get her unblocked. Show them the message from Artgurl's sister. And hopefully - WITH LUCK - she will be back with us soon, and everything can go back to normal. 