I got hacked guys I got hacked please do not do what I did stay tuned
so yesterday I got home from dinner around five o'clock this is around 5:15
and I started getting these emails from Google basically saying that something
was going on and you can see somebody had signed in from another place and I
looked up actually where it was from is actually from somewhere in Texas not
sure what that's all about but somebody from Texas hacked me yesterday and I
thought I was doing everything the right way I thought I was using all the right
security but obviously I wasn't so you can see right there people literally
signing in to my account changing the password changing the password so I want
you guys to see I'm not just making this up here
somebody did hack my account today and something fishy is going on I'm not sure
how it happened exactly because I'm usually pretty good I'm pretty good
about not downloading anything I don't really open fake emails I don't do
anything like that I don't go you know and really do anything on that in that
sense I'm also using a Mac which you know has a pretty good track record when
it comes to being hacked and viruses and all that stuff and I keep everything
updated and like I said I'm trying to be as safe as possible but what I think
what happened is is I'm just too transparent you know on YouTube I see
this happen a lot see youtubers getting hacked because you know we put all our
information out there we put our name out there we put all their information
about us out there so there's a lot of information out there people to see and
hackers can jump in on that they can see all that stuff they can see the
information about us you know obviously they see I'm a day trader they see I'm
in the financial eyes they see me talking about how I have twenty thirty
forty thousand dollars of my accounts and it's easy target for them and they
they pounce they pounced on it and they almost got me they almost got me but
luckily you know this happened at 5:17 they started hacking they got everything
basically changed over by 5:19 they changed my passwords they changed my
emails they changed my recovery email they changed everything but luckily I
was able to still log in through these emails that Google had sent me so
thankfully Google is smart in that sense they sent me the emails to my recovery
email and I was able to get back into my accounts so so the lesson I learned here
is I really need to focus on not being so
transparent I'm gonna stop showing my emails up showing my accounts stop
showing my account balances and you know in the in the bigger picture and just
really not gonna talk about how much money I have exactly you know I know you
guys are always asking you know what's my account balance how much money do I
have what do I have in this blah blah blah but going into the future
we're just gonna focus more on you know the actual execution of the trades we're
gonna talk about you know what stocks I'm buying or selling but what it comes
down to it I'm not gonna talk about how much money I have in general you know
obviously you guys have been here for a while the subscribers who have been here
for a while you've seen how transparent I've been but yesterday was an
eye-opener to how dangerous that really could have been you know they could have
taken a lot of stuff night my emails have a lot of accounts online there's a
lot of money in those accounts and it could have been a really really bad day
for me and luckily I was fast luckily I was able to get into those accounts and
get it back before they did that I changed all my passwords I made insane
passwords I think my passwords I might even forget most the passwords because
they're that crazy I put new passwords for everything and then I added the
two-factor authentication my phone which is gonna be used for all my google
accounts that's gonna make it a lot harder all my banking accounts all those
accounts now have two-factor authentication
I learned a lot learned a lot from it and I want you guys to see you know even
when you think that you are playing it safe even when you think that you are
doing all the right things even when you think that you know you can't be hacked
which I did I really thought for the longest time that I was doing everything
the right way I was following all the right rules and playing it by the books
but really when it comes down to it you know I'm putting all this information
out there on YouTube and putting all this information about me about my
accounts and it's just a target if it's a target on my back for people to see
for people to be like hey look at this idiot he's got all this money online I
think I can hack into his accounts and take that money so luckily for me there
was no money stolen there was nothing bad that really happened other than them
getting into my accounts you know and kind of scaring me in the sense that you
know I need to be more protective of what I'm showing online I need be more
protective of what I'm talking about and kind of just and not show as much and
I'm sorry for that I know people can be like well now you don't want to show
your account balances because somebody hacked you it's not it's what it is it's
how I'm gonna play it and it's just for my own personal safety like I said you
know I have not that I have now that I'm a millionaire
but I have my money online you know my different brokerages my different
accounts and all that stuff it's all there online so if somebody did hack
into my email if somebody did start moving stuff around they could do it
pretty quickly and easily say if I wasn't here say if yesterday I didn't
come home at the right time say if I was out of the country for a day or two and
somebody had two or three days to go through my email and get all my accounts
change and go and change all my money around and move stuff I could have lost
a lot of money so luckily this was a good eye opener and I learned a lot that
I really need to focus on not being so open and transparent about everything
that's out there on the internet because there are bad people out there there are
people who are trying to take everything you own just by hacking into you and
doing these things so hopefully you guys learned a lesson that if you haven't
already make sure you're looking into your accounts make sure you're looking
at your your passwords make sure your you know you can really kind of bump up
your security use the two-factor authentication easy it's free you can
download the app two-factor authentication want to change your
passwords that way if someone's to log in from somewhere that's not recognized
they got to use the two-factor authentication a please disregard I
would never message you about anything with your accounts or your money or
anything like that I would never ask you for money or to send me money or or me
to send you money anything like that anything that looks sketchy it's not me
I would never do that and do not ever answer any kind of emails where it's
somebody reaching out to you telling you that you know they can send you money or
all I need is your bank account information or anything like that that I
just want you guys a seed from my lesson that what I learned here that it is
dangerous out there that you need to protect yourself
obviously I'm a larger target because of the YouTube because I talk about all
this money and videos and accounts and all this stuff
online and I think it was an easy target for someone to get in on me and it was a
good eye opener so I learned you know I really need to bump up my security and
be safer about what I'm showing online and smarter smarter really when it comes
down to it so hopefully you guys can learn from me in this way it doesn't
happen to you and you can can't protect yourselves and see that you need to
protect yourself it is not safe out there they change my passwords they got
into the account they almost got my YouTube they almost got the YouTube
forever but I took it back I feel like I had a nice little battle with
changed all my passwords across the board for every single account that I
have online I changed the password and you know spend a couple hours just going
through everything deleting stuff installing all the things on my computer
and just trying to pick myself going into futures so like I said going into
the future gonna be a lot more protective of what
I'm showing you know account balances and account numbers all that stuff on
YouTube so I know you know my countin number and stuffs already on YouTube so
I can't go back in time and change all those videos but going into the future
I'm gonna be more protective of what I'm showing on youtube so hopefully you guys
understand that's why I'm doing it it's not because I'm trying to hide anything
it's just that I want to protect myself because yesterday was pretty scary yeah
you know I could have lost a lot of money in today it could have been
could've been a bad day for me and this video could have been a lot worse I
could have been I'm I'm I could have lost my youtube channel really you know
I could have lost it forever they could delete the YouTube channel I could have
lost everything who knows what they really could have done there but luckily
I was able to get in there and take it back they only had to account for about
two minutes so I feel pretty good but they weren't able to do that much stuff
but like I said if I was out of the country for a day for two or three days
and I didn't see my email this could've been really bad could have turned into a
much worse situation so hopefully you guys protect yourselves and learn from
my mistakes do not think that you're safe even when you're using all the
standard things bump up your security and look into you know how to add more
security to your accounts and balances and look into how to add more security
to your accounts and everything online because it is a dangerous place out
there and people are constantly looking to try to take your money I'll talk to
you guys later on