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Soldier2187
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Hello,
So let me start off with a story so you will understand my situation. In the summer of 2015, I was looking to start up a Minecraft server with another like minded individual. I found a guy and we decided to start one up. I made an email for the community. The email to sign up for certain things. We also bought a domain name and I was given the information to the domain name. So I owned the account details to the Email, and Domain at the time. Long story short, we ended up not doing the Minecraft server because we both lost interest in Minecraft and the server.
Fast forward to this summer, me and a few friends decided we wanted to start up a Garry's Mod server and I had the great idea of using the community name and all the assets that was being used by the Minecraft server I was going to run. So we did. I shared the Email information with one of my other friends who was going to be named an Owner of the server, but I never gave him access to the domain account. About a month after starting up the Garry's Mod server, I decided to leave the server for personal reasons that are irrelevant to the situation. They still had access to the email which I let them keep, but I still had access to the domain account.
Fast forward to about a week ago and I decided I wanted to check up on the server to see how it was doing. It wasn't doing as well as I expected and I ended up overreacting and went through the recovery process of the email they were using so that I could regain access to it. I ended up getting access back to it because like I said, I originally made it. The process was I told google I lost my password and they asked what password I last remembered that I used on the account. I provided the password and then google asked when the account was created. I remembered I made the account in June 2015 so I inputted that and then bam, google gave me access to the email again that they were using. As soon as I regained access to the email, I changed the password, 2 step verification, and everything so that they wouldn't have access to the email. I then went to their website and changed the password to the admin account on their website because the admin account used the email I just got access to. So they no longer had access to the email and website. I then went and logged into the domain account, which they still had no access to, but I still did, and changed the DNS settings so that their website would go offline. So I didn't hack anything, I merely used the account recovery system on google and revoked their access to the email and revoked their access to the admin account on their website and then messed up the DNS settings within the domain account.
So pretty much they lost all access to their community, which I originally owned, except for their Garry's Mod server. I admit, doing this wasn't the right thing to do, but I did it anyways and I regret it. They ended up sending in a ticket to the FBI saying that they got hacked. Which like I said, I never hacked anything. I just used the recovery options on google because I was the original account maker of the email they were using. I panicked and decided to come forward and tell them that I did this and that I didn't hack them. I came forward because I was scared I was going to get charged with hacking from the FBI. I gave them access to the website and email again because I felt guilty and I hoped they wouldn't continue with the FBI ticket. Fast forward to today and I found out from a friend of mine that they are continuing with the FBI ticket to get me charged for who knows what. So can they successfully charge me with anything? Did I break any actual laws even though all I did was recover the accounts with the email I used to own?
Additional notes: The website was payed by them from donations so I technically didn't own the website, but the website was still using the domain name that I still had access to and the admin account on the website was using the email that I originally made that I said I regained access to.
TL;DR: I made a community for a Minecraft server with a person a long time ago, I made an email account for the community, we decided not to do the Minecraft server, later on I started a new Garry's Mod server with a friend and gave him access to the email because he was going to be an owner of the server as well, I left the community and he changed the password to the email, I later on regained access to the email through Google's account recovery system since I originally made it, took over the email from them, took over their website, messed up the website DNS so the website wasn't online anymore, they filed a FBI ticket claiming they got hacked, I felt guilty and came forward and gave them access to the accounts again, instead of canceling the ticket after I came forward and gave them access to the accounts again, they decided to continue with the ticket, did I break any laws?
So let me start off with a story so you will understand my situation. In the summer of 2015, I was looking to start up a Minecraft server with another like minded individual. I found a guy and we decided to start one up. I made an email for the community. The email to sign up for certain things. We also bought a domain name and I was given the information to the domain name. So I owned the account details to the Email, and Domain at the time. Long story short, we ended up not doing the Minecraft server because we both lost interest in Minecraft and the server.
Fast forward to this summer, me and a few friends decided we wanted to start up a Garry's Mod server and I had the great idea of using the community name and all the assets that was being used by the Minecraft server I was going to run. So we did. I shared the Email information with one of my other friends who was going to be named an Owner of the server, but I never gave him access to the domain account. About a month after starting up the Garry's Mod server, I decided to leave the server for personal reasons that are irrelevant to the situation. They still had access to the email which I let them keep, but I still had access to the domain account.
Fast forward to about a week ago and I decided I wanted to check up on the server to see how it was doing. It wasn't doing as well as I expected and I ended up overreacting and went through the recovery process of the email they were using so that I could regain access to it. I ended up getting access back to it because like I said, I originally made it. The process was I told google I lost my password and they asked what password I last remembered that I used on the account. I provided the password and then google asked when the account was created. I remembered I made the account in June 2015 so I inputted that and then bam, google gave me access to the email again that they were using. As soon as I regained access to the email, I changed the password, 2 step verification, and everything so that they wouldn't have access to the email. I then went to their website and changed the password to the admin account on their website because the admin account used the email I just got access to. So they no longer had access to the email and website. I then went and logged into the domain account, which they still had no access to, but I still did, and changed the DNS settings so that their website would go offline. So I didn't hack anything, I merely used the account recovery system on google and revoked their access to the email and revoked their access to the admin account on their website and then messed up the DNS settings within the domain account.
So pretty much they lost all access to their community, which I originally owned, except for their Garry's Mod server. I admit, doing this wasn't the right thing to do, but I did it anyways and I regret it. They ended up sending in a ticket to the FBI saying that they got hacked. Which like I said, I never hacked anything. I just used the recovery options on google because I was the original account maker of the email they were using. I panicked and decided to come forward and tell them that I did this and that I didn't hack them. I came forward because I was scared I was going to get charged with hacking from the FBI. I gave them access to the website and email again because I felt guilty and I hoped they wouldn't continue with the FBI ticket. Fast forward to today and I found out from a friend of mine that they are continuing with the FBI ticket to get me charged for who knows what. So can they successfully charge me with anything? Did I break any actual laws even though all I did was recover the accounts with the email I used to own?
Additional notes: The website was payed by them from donations so I technically didn't own the website, but the website was still using the domain name that I still had access to and the admin account on the website was using the email that I originally made that I said I regained access to.
TL;DR: I made a community for a Minecraft server with a person a long time ago, I made an email account for the community, we decided not to do the Minecraft server, later on I started a new Garry's Mod server with a friend and gave him access to the email because he was going to be an owner of the server as well, I left the community and he changed the password to the email, I later on regained access to the email through Google's account recovery system since I originally made it, took over the email from them, took over their website, messed up the website DNS so the website wasn't online anymore, they filed a FBI ticket claiming they got hacked, I felt guilty and came forward and gave them access to the accounts again, instead of canceling the ticket after I came forward and gave them access to the accounts again, they decided to continue with the ticket, did I break any laws?
