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Interviewer: ,softjoey
Interviewing: Toni0390 (Co-Founder)
Toni0390
Hii Toni, Thanks So Much for letting me Interview You!, let's Get Started. No worries me good sir 1. SO Firstly To Start Off How’s It Like being Newly Promoted to Co-Founder, There Must’ve Been A lot of hardships to get to this rank. Tbh it feels amazing to be apart of foundation in general let alone co founder I never thought I would be where I am right now so I would love to thank foundation for making it happen they are all amazing people n I love them dearly I mean I’ve been here for three years and I’ve gone through me battles and I made it so it goes to show that if you find an barrier in the way don’t give up just straighten yourself and get over it it always works out in the end 2.What’s Your Favourite Thing About being an iC? Erm, being an role model to lower ranks I would say because they are new n they look up to you n maybe would wanna be more like you and obviously they’ll grow to respect you a lot too 3.Is There Anything That You don’t Like About Being an iC If So What is it? Errr nope there isn’t anything that I don’t like to be honest with you 4.What’s a Lesson You’ve Learned So Far From Your Journey From Starting here at HDA to Where You Are now? I’ve definitely learnt that you can always have fun whilst doing your duties for reports and I learnt that it’s okay to be who you are even if it is a little bit different to others I’ve also learnt that you make friends here who are worth keeping for a lifetime  5.Do You have any Tips or suggestions That You would give to future iC’s? Ayeeee don’t ever argue with people cos ya know it’s not cool to do so for sure just know your boundaries and know when your wrong don’t take anger out on the wrong people just keep your heads down and know when to walk away from a situation and you’ll come out a better person for it 6.Where Do You see Yourself here at HDA In The Future? Erm still Here I’m at now being a founder doing what I do best and hopefully in your guys eyes bring a good founder doing the best I can 7.Throughtout Your Journey Here at HDA If You had to give a shout out to One Person Who was always there for you who Would t be? Definitely I would say emzywahhhhh had me back from day one Honestly she’s gotta be the most amazing person she tells you how it is tells you when your wrong how your wrong and she’s a HELLA amazing friend she cares so much about hda and her friends.  8.And Lastly I know This will be hard to decide But Out of all the Division’s What has been Your Favourite? and Why? Errrm offttt that is hard can I not say all of them ? XD err probably CoFA for the first time cos it was my first ic rank in the start of me journey Wow These We’re Great Answers Toni!Thanks For letting me Interview you!I hope That The Rest of Your Time here at HDA Goes Well. Awee No Worries at allll. Blog Written By: ,softjoey
Who do you think I’ll interview Next? Another Founder, Junior Executive or maybe even a Legend about Their Time at HDA, you’ll have to Find out soon!
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Interviewer: ,softjoey
Interviewing: AnnePark (Acting Director Of Senior Executive)
AnnePark
Hi Anne, Thanks For Letting me Interview You I Really appreciate It, Anyways Let's Get Started! Hello Joey! Thanks for choosing me omg hahaha 1.So Firstly To Start Off Can You Tell Me What Your Leadership Does/Focuses On? We ensure every SE member (Operations till Head of Department) abide by Code of Conduct in base. Rather than just point out when they make mistakes, we ask them from time to time if they have any problems or questions regarding HDA. Been really happy as the responses are good so far, they are enjoying their time in HDA a lot! 2.Looking Back How Do You Feel About The Rank You Are Right now? I started my journey in HDA in Jan 2019 and quit for a while and came back in Dec 2019. So it's been 3 months since I came back, I promised myself that I would work harder so I guess that's how I make it to this rank now. I love this leadership alotttttt! I'm sure everyone can get to this spot since HDA is full of amazing people 3.What’s Your Favourite/Best Thing about Your Division? Being able to interact with more SEs, making new friends and improving my soft skills! I'm very shy you know but being in SE Leadership is like— breaking out of the bubble, I like to communicate but it takes me some time to adjust and trying to avoid being creepy too xD 4.If There's anything, Is There anything you dislike about your Division? Omg none hahahaha. Rather than that I would feel sad to leave this leadership. I don't mind living with this rank forever xD 5.Is Their any lesson Or something That you’ve Learned Being Leadership? Patience. You know some SEs are hard to handle, it's normal to get annoyed but then I would shut off everything and sleep it off usually lmaoooo 6.How would you describe being an iC and what advice/tips would you give to Future iC’s? Mmm it's tough and challenging but it's fun! You get experience in return and that's all that matters. Just don't give up, sometimes we might feel like we are not in the spotlight, but actually there is always someone who is watching how we are doing and care about us. I hope the future iCs will continue to help HDA being an amazing agency!!  7.Where Do You See Yourself In The Future here at HDA? Omg im not sure, just hoping that I will still work here ;-; 8. And Lastly If You had to Pick a Different Leadership or Even Become a Leadership,which Division Would You Pick? And why? Mmmm I have always aimed for SE and I literally can't imagine myself in other Leadership (i might suck at them lmao). I feel like SE Leadership is just right for me, very happy now actually. But if I were to pick one I would choose JE LOOOL. JE and SE share the same leadership channel and we got along so well. And I love JEs too hahaha Well These Were some Great Answers Anne!,I Know You’ll Find someone to help you in SE Soon *wink* Hehehe I hope soooo. Bye Everyone Hope You’re having a Great Day!  Blog Written By: ,softjoey
What Do You Think Is Next? Maybe a Founder or another Director You’ll have to find out soon hehe!
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 Coronavirus is *all* the rage right now, but thankfully I’m here to give you less than expert advice from someone who has done her *research* STRAP IN KIDS!! But seriously, please refer to your local scientific body or disease control centre for actual legit, accurate and specific advice to your country. A lot of countries are dealing with this in different ways, for example, China has locked down most of the country, whereas Australia is only limiting large gatherings, the USA.. well IDK what the USA is doing but you get the idea. Google ‘Covid-19 advice for [country]’ or ‘how is [country] dealing with Covid-19’ or ‘CDC equivalent of [your country] and don’t believe what you read on social media, just because karen from shitsville kentucky, or your favourite YouTuber, says it's true.. IT MIGHT NOT BE! Coronavirus or COVID-19 is a *new* virus, kind of like the seasonal flu, which came out of Wuhan, China. (No, it isn’t biological warfare or a man made virus, it just most likely came out of a wet market, where someone probably ate a live bat)  ANYWAY the good news is that a vaccine is on the way, but the bad news is it could take up to 18 months to develop. Which means we could be living like this for a while. Here are some things you should know, yes it’s long, but it’s worth a quick read:
How is it spread?
It is spread via droplets of infected people. If you have Covid-19 and you sneeze, cough, spit or lick anything and those droplets get onto people, or objects, someone could catch the virus, then someone else will catch it, then someone else and so on. The virus could live on objects for a long period of time as well, so if you touch something someone has coughed on, then touch your face, such as eyes, nose or mouth, you could then have caught the virus.  WASH YOUR HANDS So the virus spreads through droplets, if you fondle something that has droplets on it (doorknob, desks, bus seats etc etc.) and then touch your face (which average humans do at least 10 times AN HOUR) then you could get infected. If you wash your hands regularly, after you catch public transport, before preparing food, before eating, before/after blowing your nose or touching literally anything you haven’t disinfected yourself, you will give yourself the best chance of not catching this thing. If you can’t wash your hands, please use hand sanitiser on your hands! You should wash your hands for AT LEAST 20 seconds (singing happy birthday twice works for me) and follow this handy graphic for the different areas you should be hitting (I realised after I saw this I am disgusting and haven’t been washing my hands properly, like, EVER!)  Practice good basic hygiene Washing your hands, showering often, blowing your nose into a tissue then throwing that tissue out, then washing your hands, coughing into your sleeve (“like ur dabbing”.. cringe) and keeping yourself and your environment clean will help avoid exposure.
DISINFECT EVERYTHING
Buy some spray or wipes and wipe down EVERY SURFACE you can. Then do that AT LEAST once a day to high traffic areas: doorknobs, handles, phones, keys, bags, purses, bongs, vapes, desks, keyboards, mice, laptops, tables, chairs, buttons, shoes AND SO ON. If you think this is overkill, just wash your hands every time you touch any of these objects. Or never touch your face (good luck with that ahahhahahahahahahaha… no seriously, just SEE how many times u touch ur face today, writing this article I have touched it at least 27 times) 
(please don’t eat hand sanitizer)
Be aware of symptoms
Symptoms can include cough, fever, runny nose or sore throat. You may have all of these symptoms, a combo of some of these cases or none of them. If you have any of these symptoms, call your doctor or local hospital, ask them where you should go to get tested. Most areas are not testing unless you have travelled to another country, or have come into contact with a confirmed case. 
Even if you are sick, but don’t have Covid-19, practice social isolation Avoiding large gatherings, unnecessary travel or your aunt’s birthday (assuming your aunt has lots of friends) are all things you should aim to avoid at this stage of the pandemic.  Young people are less likely to get really sick Nobody knows why, just is a fact! You can still *catch* the virus, and pass it onto others, but you may experience little to no symptoms, and if you do have symptoms you will probably won’t be that sick, or at least not sick enough to require a hospital visit.
Old people and immunocompromised people are at the highest risk of complications
Pneumonia, death, having to wear ugly masks are some of the biggest risks old people and immunocompromised people are facing. If you do fall into any of these categories, it might be worth getting a mask (note: most areas are recommending people don’t buy or stock up on masks for various reasons), talking to your doctor or going to slightly more extreme lengths to isolate yourselves may be needed to protect yourself.  ‘I’m young & healthy, why should I care?’ If you don’t have any elderly relatives, and don’t know anyone who is immunocompromised (of which there are a lot out there, and they may not be open about it, so you never really know!) and you don’t care about saving people's lives, it can still affect you, you selfish psychopath. If you break your arm, get into a car accident, have a bad reaction to a drug you take or have an allergic reaction and need medical attention, you might not get it. If hospitals, doctors, nurses etc. are overwhelmed helping large cases of people sick with Covid-19 there may not be enough resources to treat you, not just staffing numbers but resources will also be slim. If you half the amount of people you come into contact with now, you half the chance of it spreading. Sacrificing a little now, will help greatly in the future. 
Get ready for life to change, but not forever
Most places are now cancelling major events, Disneyland is closing and films aren’t being released. Life has changed, but try and see this as a positive. If things get worse, this lifestyle could last a lot longer. If we all sacrifice a little now, it stops us from having to sacrifice a lot more later on.  All of this advice may change tomorrow. Depending on where you live, some of this information may be totally irrelevant to you! I live in Australia, and have written this article from an Australian perspective, but things are drastically different in places like the USA or Europe. Please refer to your appropriate government body for up to date information. This should only be used as a general guide and I am by no means a doctor or an expert.
And don’t panic
Follow advice from your local authorities, practice good hygiene, wash your hands often and play a lot of Habbo/watch a lot of TV/play a lot of games/read a lot of books and try and eat healthy and get some exercise. This will pass. A vaccine is being worked on. Check in on your friends and family, even if you can’t physically see them, call them where you can. It is ok to be scared, but try not to panic, or spread panic. Sometimes that can be worse than the pandemic itself. Ask for help, talk about it nothing is worse than keeping it bottled in. 
It’s already been for February iCs promotions! February was well filled with a lot of iCs promotions!! If you see any of these members in the base, make sure to congratulate them. Well deserved promotion with their dedication towards HDA
Head of Department 3iC
Board of Directors 2iC
Elite Command 2iC
Founder's Representative 2iC
Presidential 1iC
Main Founder's Representative 1iC
Ownership 1iC
Foundation iC
It's been a minute since I posted part one and two of how HDA was hacked, but you can read about part 1 here, and part 2 here. Enjoy part 3! Part 3 - Chasing down Liam DISCLAIMER: This was a result of HDA staff getting slack with security + passwords which made us an easy target for hackers, if you follow this guide and change your passwords often without having too many duplicates, this won’t happen to you! Read Part 1 here and Part 2 Here So we start off this post by celebrating the one and only Mich, who #SurvivedMoM, it was a much welcome return amongst all the drama!  (still waiting for her Undercover Mich post TBQH!) Back to the hacker, we tried to work out WHO THE F*@K this guy was, a few days had passed at this point and nobody had come forward to claim the hack, which hackers typically tend to do since most of them have no satisfaction/positive reinforcement/actual life offline and require strangers to be like ‘omg wow m8 u hacked that random habbo game gr8!’ so we were officially weirded out by the actual radio silence! We tried emailing him:  And we never heard anything back, we were still confused!  (Spoiler, we couldn’t assume the same person that hacked our forums, hacked HDA-founder!) I started to look more into the forum hack though, since at this stage I was weirded out about the connections between the hda-founder hack and the forum hack that happened months ago. We established that the account that was hacked to gain access to our forums, the account was compromised by the previously mentioned email dump. The password + email combo was used on another hacked site, then used on our forums, all the hacker had to do was log in! The hacker changed the name to Black Thanos  And proceeded to delete all posts, which made bringing everything back a bit of a nightmare. So once we worked out all these details, including how the hacker got IN, we checked everywhere to see if our email/password for hda-founder was compromised in the same way, IT WASN’T! So another dead end basically. We did find another connection though. The original email dump used to hack our forums said ‘Love From Liam’ on it, which was connected to some of our members being hacked last year:   Which, at the time, we talked about a LOT…  And we eventually connected all of this hacking drama to this guy, Conditioners, AKA Liam. And he even made an appearance on SWAT’s NP!!:  So my assumption was at this point in time Liam = Conditioners = the guy that grabbed all our data and published it online = hacked a bunch of HDA members, and had connections to Mafia. But was this all connected to the HDA-Founder hack? Was this Conditioners guy the same person that hacked the forums? Or were we dealing with three different people?
And yes, if you are wondering, by this stage my life at this point in time could be summed up in one image:  NEXT TIME... 
Ever sat there late at night while you’re in bed, and questioned important things in life? Like what age will I get married? Did I remember to lock the house door? Or more importantly, WHAT MAKES HDA SO GREAT?
 Well lucky FOR ALL OF YOU I SPENT SOME TIME INVESTIGATING THIS IMPORTANT QUESTION!!!! Let start off by breaking it down. What makes HDA such a close and tight family? Could it be that we all share a love for habbo? Maybe we all extremely believe in defending habbo. After spending some time in base and searching around, see how members interact. I have cracked the cas…..  HDA members all share a love and obsession for toes, don’t believe me? Check the evidence: 
Thank you all for your time, may you enjoy your day and your toes xxx
LOVE EMZYWAH
DISCLAIMER: This was a result of HDA staff getting slack with security + passwords which made us an easy target for hackers, if you follow this guide and change your passwords often without having too many duplicates, this won’t happen to you!
As I said last post, HDA was hacked, we all freaked out, Dean got the account safety banned so no more damage could be done, and the rest of the founders got on with what needed to be done next! I started to look back at what had happened at HDA, details regarding the hacker were few and far between, so I started looking through our own discord chats, and found something really interesting…  The HDA forums hack!!! WE HAVE BEEN HACKED BEFORE!!!!! 
“Black Thanos” was the only detail that we really had on that hacker. And it JUST SO HAPPENS there were details I found on our HDA-Founder hacker that matched the hack on the forums. I promptly freaked out and shared the news with my fellow founders
We never really worried much about the forums, we obviously were concerned but our energy was spent rebuilding the forums, not looking into who actually hacked us. Since I now had a link between this hack and the forum hack, I could dig deeper into the forum hack to see what info I could find about the HDA-Founder hack. BUT I was also still looking at our emails and stuff, and I had a bit of a breakthrough…
This guy KEPT COMING UP (but more on that later) but what I actually found was…
Some LITERAL PSYCHOPATH had logged into our forums, grabbed our emails, then compared our emails to hacked websites outside of Habbo (like Haboon, Town of Salem etc.) and listed our passwords as well, it was published by Liam, in August 2019 and listed everyone from founders to 5ic ranks back in August. Not everyone who was there in August was listed there, but almost everyone was.
I tried to remove it but it still exists, so PLEASE CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS (update, as of 8 March 2020 it has been removed)  I contacted everyone who had personal details on there, so if you haven’t heard from me you don’t need to panic, but I seriously hope this makes EVERYONE realise YOU HAVE TO CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS if everyone just had a different password to the one they used on the hacked website, this wouldn’t have happened at all. We started making more connections… 
So people were getting our details from this document and using it to log in and mess up our forums. I kept talking to people who had details on this doc, so I could work out where these details came from, at first I thought it was proboards hacked, but we realised that it wasn’t always the same. I would say MOST of the details on this doc I found was inaccurate, Matt had an address listed next to his name…
And people who had passwords listed said they were inaccurate, except for the people who we knew had been hacked into. Sarah quickly had this honestly amazing idea:
And that is why you can’t see emails on the forums anymore! While most of our emails are still *out there* as long as we keep changing our passwords (or our emails) we will be ALL GOOD.
NEXT TIME… 
DISCLAIMER: This was a result of HDA staff getting slack with security + passwords which made us an easy target for hackers, if you follow this guide and change your passwords often without having too many duplicates, this won’t happen to you! Having said that there is A LOT OF TEA here, and it’s going to take a while to unpack, this will be a few posts so ENJOY!
As most of you know by now HDA-Founder’s account was hacked. This is really what kicked everything off. Emma was the only founder on at the time and organised a Habbo staff member to lock and ban the account so it would prevent base/badges getting trashed. Sarah was around soon after and worked out what the *fuck* to do, When I eventually got on during the day, I promptly FREAKED THE FUCK OUT!!!  
Emma contacted EVERYONE POSSIBLE IN EVERY WAY POSSIBLE at Habbo, and thankfully within a few hours of the hack we locked the account up tight. But that was still a few hours of the hacker having full access to HDA-Founder! We were EXTREMELY CONFUSED!!
I wondered if anyone had contacted any founders about the account, and if they wanted anything, AND NOBODY DID THAT EITHER!! It was like they got in, did fuck all then logged out and got back on with their lives.
 Meanwhile, we were still working on finding out ANY INFORMATION POSSIBLE about this hacker, we only had one bit of info that was concrete, an email. I started searching the internet for any reference to this email ANYWHERE  And found nothing. It was a throwaway email, except.. I could pretend to ‘forget password’ and it gave me the last two numbers in the phone number attached to the email, and a country. Not much in the long run, I can’t do much with that details, I am not a master hacker. So I started searching for OUR details that may be out there, and I found a hell of a lot… NEXT TIME… 
HDA is currently under attack from hackers. I will give more details later on what is happening, but trust me when I say that we are currently at extreme risk of being hacked. The only way to stop this is to protect yourselves individually.
From now on HDA will be taking further action if your account has been found to let in a hacker, intentionally or not. Having a weak account/password is NO EXCUSE.
STEP 1. CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS.
I don’t care if you have a really strong password, it could still be compromised. Change it. Now. What are you still doing here? CHANGE IT!!! Some important HDA related passwords to change: HABBO!!! Discord Forums https://support.proboards.com/thread/639110/change-user-password Social media account you use to chat with Habbo members Weebly If you have the same password for two or more of the sites above CHANGE THAT NOW!!! You are putting HDA at an even bigger risk of getting hacked.
STEP 2. Check if you are at an increased risk.
There are REALLY USEFUL TOOLS out there these days to give you the upper hand in protecting your data and accounts from hackers. Stop reading this article (but come back) and go to: https://haveibeenpwned.com/ This is INCREDIBLY useful, search your emails and see if your email comes up. If it doesn’t, CONGRATS!! If you get this: 
You have to be extra EXTRA careful where you use this email to login! I would strongly recommend moving accounts that you have attached to the compromised email, move them to a new email. Or set up two factor authorization, or use a password manager (more on that later).
If you don’t feel comfortable or confident with that, just change emails, you won’t lose access to the email, but it’s worth having a few emails so that if one does get compromised then you can move accounts around and it makes it harder to pin done ONE password for ONE email login.
STEP 3: CHECK YOUR PASSWORDS!
OK great, so you have changed your passwords, you have checked your emails, YOU ARE SAFE!! Um.. sorry, think again. Go to this site: https://haveibeenpwned.com/Passwords Put in ALL THE PASSWORDS you use, did it come up? DON’T USE IT AGAIN.
Step 4: Get a Password Manager
There are heaps of password managers out there, a lot have free options, then all you need is one REALLY STRONG PASSWORD and you can store all your details there.
Step 5: Protect yourself every time you log in.
You have changed your passwords, you have checked your email + passwords, you have a password manager, now you need to be smart about how you use the internet in general. Don’t click on links that are dodgy. Don’t give anyone your details, even if you trust them. Change your passwords often, and check your emails + passwords often. Follow all these steps and you will not put HDA at risk, and that’s all we want!!!
HDA has taken steps to protect us as well, you can no longer view members’ emails on the forums, which was found to be a risk to our members. We are sorry for that, and we have now fixed the issue. If you are worried about hackers further, please consider creating a new email.
Legend is the rank we offer to retired workers at HDA, it is for our long term members that are unable to continue to be active in the agency. Legends should be looked up to at HDA, for they have shown continuous effort throughout their time there.
Orionb221
i want to thank everyone who has been amazing and those who have always known how to make me laugh. i’ll never forget all the amazing memories that i’ve shared with all of you and it’s been such a blast. i want to thank sarah first as she made me her rep and took me under her wing as we hadn’t ever really talked before. sarah, you’ve been the best founder anyone could ever ask for. people need your drive and genuine goodness in the world and i can’t wait for u to share it with them all. thank you for becoming such a great friend and ofc we will keep in touch (; i want to thank matt for being my divisions fair buddy and always being someone who i can talk to and rant to. you’re the best person that anyone could have in their life and i love you SO MUCH!! thank you to everyone who ive become friends with and i don’t ever wanna lose touch with any of u ! celina, even though you aren’t at hda anymore i still see u as my best best friend and i will always talk to you and i want to thank you for making me feel so welcomed and becoming your friend has been one of the top three best fucking moments i have at hda, keep growing sorry for the long ass message ! thank you to all these people and thank you HDA ! keep growing
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