# Dealing with a hacked user account should not require the console

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-a-hacked-user-account-should-not-require-the-console/398627
**Category:** Self-hosting
**Created:** [March 17, 2026, 11:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-a-hacked-user-account-should-not-require-the-console/398627 "2026-03-17T11:50:06Z")
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### Author: ![dccmuseum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8e8cbc/32.png) [@dccmuseum](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dccmuseum)
#### Post date: [March 17, 2026, 3:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/dealing-with-a-hacked-user-account-should-not-require-the-console/398627/7 "2026-03-17T15:58:12Z")

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I opened this as a bug report/feature request on purpose to possibly make it better later, the concrete task is already been done and the user got his account back.

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