🚨 MAJOR UPDATE 🚨 I’ll be LIVE on @ABC7Chicago NEWS in the coming weeks, speaking with consumer investigative reporter Jason Knowles to expose what happened to me and hold those responsible accountable. Chicago is a major market. It’s time to get this story heard. 👇🏻 @jayedelson do you want to represent me? I hold @Google @gmail 100% accountable for the devastating consequences of a security failure that should NEVER have been possible. A person in Germany used a newly created fictitious Gmail account to take control of my adult Google account through Family Link by changing my birth year to 2014 and effectively making me a 12-year-old in Google’s system. Google’s safeguards then prevented me from submitting my government-issued ID to prove my actual age and identity. Meanwhile, my account was caught in an unauthorized parental supervision relationship that I could not independently terminate. The consequences were devastating. The attacker gained access to sensitive personal information, including my driver’s license number, Social Security number, and financial communications involving cryptocurrency exchanges and my bank. I was subsequently socially engineered, and one of my crypto wallets was drained. This is not just an account recovery problem. This is a security failure with real financial consequences. The unauthorized Family Link account is “still” pending deletion since August 5th, and I am STILL dealing with the fallout. How can Google allow a newly created account to impose parental control over an established adult account, block identity verification, and leave the legitimate account owner without an effective way to regain control? I demand immediate executive-level intervention, removal of the unauthorized supervision, a full investigation, and accountability for my losses. Google and Gmail need to address this vulnerability before another person suffers the same harm.