What to do when your Orkut Account is Hacked ?

Submitted by Srikanth on Saturday, 2 February 200820 Comments

It can be a nightmare if someone else takes control of your Google Account because all your Google services like Gmail, Orkut, Google Calendar, Blogger, AdSense, Google Docs and even Google Checkout are tied to the same account.

Here are some options suggested by Google Support when your forget the Gmail password or if someone else takes ownership of your Google Account and changes the password:

1. Reset Your Google Account Password:

Type the email address associated with your Google Account or Gmail user name at Gmail Forgot Password Link – you will receive an email at your secondary email address with a link to reset your Google Account Password. This will not work if the other person has changed your secondary email address or if you no longer have access to that address.

2. For Google Accounts Associated with Gmail:

If you have problems while logging into your Gmail account, you can consider contacting Google by filling this form. It however requires you to remember the exact date when you created that Gmail account.

3. For Hijacked Google Accounts Not Linked to Gmail:

If your Google Account doesn’t use a Gmail address, contact Google by filling this form. This approach may help bring back your Google Account if you religiously preserve all your old emails. You will be required to know the exact creation date of your Google Account plus a copy of that original “Google Email Verification” message. It may be slightly tough to get your Google Account back but definitely not impossible if you have the relevant information in your secondary email mailbox.

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20 Comments »

Slim0123 said:

Prevention is better than cure, just dont let it happen, dont sign in your ids at public places or even your pc(before u r sure that its not been compromised)

- 31 December 2008 at 1:20 AM

baishampay said:

Sir I hav done both but still couldn’t find a solution plz helpme

- 3 January 2009 at 12:44 AM

nikita said:

ok gud one !

- 5 January 2009 at 11:12 PM

Me said:

Go to forgot password helpline n den try to recall all wat u entered in the account page…It can help bt nt a good method…

- 2 March 2009 at 6:30 PM

jeyenth said:

am not able to get ma password …am using yahoo id to orkut..
orkut and my yahhoo both of them are not accessable now…

and am not able to fill the form also,.. i don rem the details of wen i created this account and all that…

plz suggest me any other options

- 16 March 2009 at 9:31 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ jeyenth

Sorry, there is no ther way to get back your account.

- 18 March 2009 at 3:54 PM

Aditya said:

is there a way to get google account creation date in case we don’t remember it and i definitely can recollect any of the dates for all the services I’m using now

- 1 April 2009 at 1:30 PM

bird said:

in my orkut account my privacy setting of photo was not changing from everyone to “my friends only” . all other settings was changing. i want to know was my account was hacked?

- 18 May 2009 at 11:54 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ bird

Clear all your cookies and try once again after some time. It should work and it doesn’t mean that your account is hacked.

- 19 May 2009 at 9:50 AM

bird said:

Well i tried but not working i also told my friend to operate my account she could also not change the setting of it. now i had deleted my account and made a new one in which also settings are not changing from everyone to only my friend.pls help me and suggest me what should i do now?
let my explain you in detail. one day when i was operating my orkut account ,the small window appear on right side of the screen as it used to be always saying “new orkut team chatting” somewhat like this it says, when i clicked on it to minimize it all of the sudden 50 sites are opened and site was like http://www.talkgadget... somewhat like this after that when i check my setting it was not changing. and one more thing that i saw was my orkut account was showing the email id of gmail which i had not mentioned in the orkut account…
i am not getting what is happenning? when i operated my brother’s account also i found the same problem please suggest me a remedy for it..

- 20 May 2009 at 11:52 PM

Srikanth (author) said:

@ bird

Try accessing your account from another computer. If it works fine from another comp then all you need to do is just format your harddisk (only the OS drive) and reinstall your OS.

- 21 May 2009 at 6:50 AM

bird said:

i tried from my friends computer as i mentioned before also i told my friend to operate my account she did it from her computer but not working … what should i do now?

- 21 May 2009 at 12:44 PM

rajarajan said:

hi, orkut account of mine is being used by some one… all my options of it is being changed so i cannot open it… so please help me in deleting it……….

- 18 June 2009 at 10:33 PM

akshay said:

how hack orkut accunt

- 24 June 2009 at 2:38 PM

deepak said:

my orkut id is hacked and i have submitted the form to reset my password but there is no response..
so plz tell me what to do.

- 4 July 2009 at 1:04 PM

shrishtika said:

@ srikant

this was totally awesome
thnkx………

this gonna help me a lot
i’m ur fan now……….

- 7 February 2010 at 3:36 PM

Sandeep_S said:

Srikant please answer me for the following questions
1.can a cyber police will help us to get back lost orkut password?
2.Is it possible for them to trace IP address of the hacker by having contact with Google?
3.Will they (Google) keep logs of a particular account’s activity (like signin date and IP address)?
4.Is it really a cyber crime —-> My friend uploaded someone’s photo to his a/c, he applied it as profile photo and gave a caption (he used some bad words). AND that person registered cyber crime. Will they take action on my friend?

- 13 March 2010 at 6:35 PM

Rohit said:

How can i Get the IP address of any computer but the locations are
in different palces.

Please Reply me on my gmail account.

rohit.patil0374@gmail.com

- 12 May 2010 at 7:33 PM

SAGAR said:

sir i think that my orkut account has been hacked by someone
always someone changes my profile.
and my gmail and orkut acount email add.is same wat 2 do.
plz. help.

- 23 May 2010 at 1:03 PM

Rushabh Jhalawat said:

hi
i have a problem with my orkut and facebook acount so can u help me because i tried the above option and send me a mail at my mail box that is given in the mail box.

- 19 July 2010 at 3:41 PM