So! the time has finally come where I need to explain what happened to this account. Before you ask, NO we are not deleting this account or discontinuing any writing on here. This account has been very inactive lately due to being hacked/ or rebelled against? We are not completely sure what happened so it was either a hacker, someone who has left the group and chose to mess with us, or a current member of this group.
This was a very scary and irritating experience for us, or at least for me it was, I can't really speak for everyone in the group. SO LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED
Around the beginning of September, I was in bed and I realized that I had gotten a message on Wattpad. So I logged on (I was on my personal account at the time and the notif I got was from our email that was being used for this account) and went to the messages and a previous member of our account messaged us (I am not going to say their name since I did not ask them if I could whilst writing this) They had written two messages; one that said "um... What!?" and one that said "I'm sorry if I hurt you guys but i just had a lot to deal with."
At this point I was so confused and I thought that maybe the vice president of this group had been messaging them. So I looked at what we had written to them previously and it was "You're a fucking bitch for leaving the group!" I was really surprised and just literally stared at the screen for about 5 minutes. Finally when I had gotten out of this trance I raced to message this person back and explained that I was sorry for that message and that basically I was going to figure out who sent this. So I started looking at some more of our conversations with other Wattpadians and there were some more messages sent but none as rude as the one directed specifically towards that previous member we had.
Now I don't like to show any distrust towards the members but there was evidence that pointed towards the possibility that it was either a current or previous member of DiverseInk that was sending this.
Now it seemed like the more I realized what was happening, the worse this 'attack' got. I take this account very seriously but I made the mistake of not checking as well as I could've when this happened. I accidentally pressed on the profile button on this app and I had realized that on our account it said we had only had 5 books. This was the most devastating blow towards this group than the messages. For those of you who are new to this account, before this happened we had about 16 books and 3 more in the drafts. So that means that 14 books (including the drafts) were deleted off this account. I felt horrible, not only because I worked hard on the books that I wrote in this account but because other members have too. I had gotten really anxious and literally started crying because I felt really bad about this and that the members had to go through this. About a day or two later I tried logging back in, only to realize that this hacker/rebel changed our password. Luckily I was able to get the account back by going on our email and changing it to the password it had before.
One of our drafts was a member chat book. I had come up with a way to talk with all the members and we used it pretty frequently. Unfortunately that draft was deleted as well. I created another member chat book and alerted all the members of DiverseInk of what was happening. Here is what I wrote;
CHAPTER NAME: What is going on?
A couple days ago, someone from this account messaged people rude things and now they attempted to lock us out of the account and change our password.
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At this point I was angered and just really annoyed that someone would do something like this. So I was literally ready to just sit back and watch this person come at us with their worse (I tend to just break down and stop caring about something when i am really mad) but I realized that this was not fair.
Then I got a notification that someone wrote a new chapter in this draft book. I went to check it out....and low & behold, it was not good. This is what the chapter was;
CHAPTER NAME: devil
ThE dEvil Is HeRe
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At this point I was so done with everything, The feeling I had of just irritation was just multiplied by 1,000,000,000.
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By the way I forgot to mention this but a member of our group helped me realize that the password was changed. So kudos to them.
After that chapter was made that member that helped me realize the password problem wrote a chapter as well. Here is what it said:
CHAPTER NAME: WTF IS HAPPENING HELP
adashofcinnamon here- Okay so first the changed password (thanks for telling me it was changed back Vivi) and tons of our unpublished books are missing? What the hell is happening and why? Also who is the devil in this?
Does anybody know what's going on?
Also, Dear Devil, if you are the one who deleted my book and obviously changed the password, if you see this, I promise you if this is not a prank, I will tear you apart, whether it be physically or mentally, I will tear into the deepest parts of your mind until you no longer have any humanity, I've done it before, and I promise, if it comes to it, I'll do it again darling
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Um.. literally that was the best chapter to be written LMFAO. So after that we changed our password to something that the other members do not know. But after I post this chapter, I WILL BE CHANGING THE PASSWORD ONCE AGAIN AND LETTING THE MEMBERS BACK IN. Some of our old books will be added back into the account due to having them saved on Google docs. That is our safe haven for now, so when any of the members write a story they will have to save it on Google docs just in case the "devil" person comes back. SO CHES that is what happened.......
DUECES
-Viviana
