Why would anyone hack my chess.com account..?

I’ve recently received an email from chess.com regarding suspicious logins into my account, with recommendations to change my password. It took me a few days to tend to the matter during which time 3 games have been played on my account. My rating suffered nearly 20 points.

After changing my password I immediately received 2 emails saying that my account has been compromised, again. My account had been logged in from Montreal and Toronto.

I’m using the chess.com app on an updated iPad.

I don’t care much about the rating but I am curious as to the why. To what end does this action serve?

Weird..

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Depending on your ISP, it's very likely those logins are from you, especially if you changed your password to a unique and complex one

I had one of those emails after logging into a device a use daily and I know for a fact it was my login that generated the alert.

It happened to me recently twice as well.

random acc is hacking me and is appearing on me and my friends screen i think chess.com got hacked today

its some kind of bug happening with me too i was on variant server and then chess.com crashed and then it was showing me in multiple accounts

I'm seeing someone else's main screen when I log in. Yeah. I'm guessing the site got compromised.

seeing myself logged in as someone else, then check the mail and see a suspicious login so i change my password and log out of all other devices

My main page ( www.chess.com/home ) is also showing a different profile (name/picture/stats/etc), including unread messages and more.

This is a very serious security breach where (potentially) PII is getting leaked.

true.

I am having a similar issue. First I saw someone else's profile when checking my profile. Now I see my own profile, but when I try to start a game the client changes language, I get another user displayed at the bottom and I get an error message. Something seems very buggy at the moment.

Yeah, it's pretty concerning. Looks to be fixed for me at this point.

I was getting my own messages when it was happening but my whole front page was another user. I reported to chess.com, but I assume they're being inundated with reports this morning.

exactly. this bug keeps coming and going.

Even logging in/out didn't help/change anything.

After logging back in, the same not-me profile/data appears for me.

has anyone also noticed that the board has set to default (green and white with neo pieces)?

i even tried logging into my alternative account and the account but the bug is still there