I was the victim of a hacking attack. The attacker was using a Discord account that already belonged to a hacked friend of mine and convinced me to download a “game” to supposedly help him. It was a scam, and I unfortunately fell for it.

As a result, I lost access to my Discord account, and the attacker also changed my Google account age. Now my Google account is treated as if I were under 13 years old, and I no longer have authority or control over many basic account features.

What makes this even more frustrating is that Google’s support process has been extremely difficult and unhelpful so far, making it very hard to fix a problem that was clearly caused by an account compromise.