Hello everyone!
Unfortunately, there isn’t much great news with this post. It pains me that this news has to be the subject of the first real blog post. However, it’s necessary for y’all to know in case something has happened. So I’ll just cut to the chase.
On March 29th, I fell victim to a clever social engineering scam on Discord and had my account compromised. I’m not going to go too much into detail about what it is, but it was super fishy (all started from a strange DM from a person on my friends list that I don’t message anymore). But sadly, I fully caught it when it was too late.
So long story short, if there were any strange things posted by my account, it wasn’t me. Sadly, Discord’s team hasn’t helped, and honestly, I’m disbanding completely from Discord, which includes the Ulti Studios discord. Especially considering the recent news involving Discord and how much they are being targeted. Support will now be given here using a new support portal. If you need specific support from me, you can also still request support by contacting [email protected] or messaging me on BuiltByBit. I’m really sorry for this news, but ethics is one of our most important values, and y’all deserve to know awareness. I’m fortunate that only Discord was hacked and my other accounts remain safe. All plugins are still safe and you can download them securely.
But I feel this reminds all of us of a few lessons:
- Stay safe while online by cleaning up your friends list, properly setting up your privacy/security settings, etc.
- If something feels too good to be true, it probably is.
- As soon as you catch a red flag from someone, don’t trust anything from them until they prove they can be trusted.
But this is why I’m glad I decided to revamp the Ulti Studios website. Despite this incident, we’ll still pull strong! I’m pretty much done with another semester of college (except for one class) and I probably won’t be going back for a bit longer since my remaining classes are late-start.
There is more to come and I ask that you stay tuned to these posts to see what’s cooking in the future!
Much love to y’all! 🙂
Ultimation/Jacob