So I log into Gmail today, as it is my homepage, and lo and behold I get an email from Mojang asking me about my recent request to change my email associated with the account. All fine and dandy.

Except I never requested an email change.

I haven't even logged into my Mojang or Minecraft account in ages.

So I log into my account and immediately notice that the name of my Minecraft account instead of being the one I use for most everything (see username here), it's now CruelGuy_YT. Oh dear.

I have no idea who this guy is, but it seems he's been using my account since around February and a google search of the name only brings up links to minecraft skins and some russian looking sites.

To cut a long story short I changed the name and password of the account. If he wants to keep playing Minecraft he can buy a copy. Or jack another account?

Have any of you had something similar happen? Maybe with another game? Why not share your experience.

And hey, maybe check on your old accounts from time to time.

My Blizzard account once got locked up for being a spam account or something. I didn't know about it for years.

Same thing happened to me. Then I got about 20 emails as this kid attempted to reset my password again.

Damn kids...get off my Minecraft account!

I had a similar thing happen with my old forgotten Rockstar account. I got an email that my password had been changed, I reset it and log in to find the default language had been changed to Russian. I had the account deleted because I hadn't used it in years.