[Urgent] My Dad's Gmail got Hacked today. How to recover ??

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So, My dad's gmail just got hacked and the hacker changed the recovery phone number. After that we received a mail that a Google Adwords payment was made from his account.
Fortunately, the hacker didn't change the recovery mail address and I tried to recover the account but it seems like recovery mails are useless for google. After going through google account recovery, it showed that the account has been locked for security purpose and any update will be sent on my recovery mail. But again the hacker accessed the account and changed the password and again google failed to secure my account.
Now after trying several times I have been locked out of logging in for several hours.

Anything I can do about it now???
 
Seems quite a serious attack didn't you received login notification on recovery mail?
 
Open a support ticket in thier google forum.
explain the situation.
 
You should write to support. This is place where you probably could buy your dad's account from not recover it :D
 
I don't think did you last security account they can't change email until verify through the question after changes , maybe your dad redirect to Pishing site for put email and pass and security has share to hacked they can do it , you need contact
 
Op most of the time, its hard to trust such threads. Its important email?
 
If your reasons are real and account is yours i can help you out.
 
Well getting Google to assist is the best solution.

Also, if you find out the loophole and get to know where was the weak point, do mention it so that people can be more careful.

Best of luck for your recovery tho.
 
If your reasons are real and account is yours i can help you out.
As I said, It's my dad's account that got compromised. Recovery email has yet not been changed by the hacker and I have access to the recovery mail. If any how it's possible to roll back to the previous connected phone number then I have that number too.
Any Help is appreciated.
 
As I said, It's my dad's account that got compromised. Recovery email has yet not been changed by the hacker and I have access to the recovery mail. If any how it's possible to roll back to the previous connected phone number then I have that number too.
Any Help is appreciated.
Is that gmail account tied to an android device at all? if hes anything like my old fella its some rogue app on his phone that hes given permissions to.

If you can get the password changed using the recovery email and log in then try these links. Might help.
active devices:
https://myaccount.google.com/device-activity
active permissions:
https://myaccount.google.com/permissions

EDIT: Am I the only one who thinks its shitty the way BHW now previews links like above? How do I turn it off?
The links should look like this...
myaccount.google.com/device-activity
myaccount.google.com/permissions
 
Did you try receiving any help from the google support forum? cuz i'm hoping they can help me.
not really...coz the hacker has changed recovery mail as well, I had no proof so google didn't trust me
 
Is that gmail account tied to an android device at all?
If you can get the password changed using the recovery email
Yes it was active on an android device but now it says "session ended" & i'm receiving codes from google on my recovery mail to verify that it's my account but still no option to change the passwords. logging in with the same device + same network but still no help.
 
If your reasons are real and account is yours i can help you out.
Hi, I have a somewhat similar situation, I have moved to another country so no longer have my old phone or the even older email for verification. Could you help please
 
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