• jaybone@lemmy.zip
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    14 hours ago

    TLDR: once your account is compromised, the attacker can change your age and add the account as a child to a family account. Then you can’t recover it.

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      14 hours ago

      How does that work, or does it even work, on accounts over 21 years old? Am I safe or at least sorta safe from these sort of compromised account hacks?

      I don’t even think Google knows how old I am, but they damn sure ought to know how old my account is at least…

      Plus I ain’t got any money to steal anyways…