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AaronL1's avatar
AaronL1
Joining in
2 years ago

DEF01 Error need help - urgent

My Grandfathers virgin mail account got hacked and someone added an auto-forwarding for phishing practices. I went through the process of removing the auto forwarding and resetting the password (but that was drama in itself). As his virginmail email address was the login for Virgin Media, I had to change that to his gmail account before I could successfully change the password.

I managed to do that and change the password, but now I can't get into the account and during password reset processes I'm getting this DEF01 error.

Can someone help please? I see a lot of other messages about this but the support always ends up saying communication moves privately so I don't see a resolution to the problem!

Thanks in advance

 

  • Martin_N's avatar
    Martin_N
    Forum Team
    2 years ago

    Hi AaronL1,

    Thank you for your post and welcome to the community. 

    I'm very sorry to hear about what happened the online account and the error you're now getting. 

    To confirm, is this happening on both the web browser and app version?

    ^Martin

    • AaronL1's avatar
      AaronL1
      Joining in
      2 years ago

      Hi @Martin_N

      This is happening on the web browser. I don't believe my Grandfather has mobile app access. 

      Thanks,

      Aaron

      • Zach_R's avatar
        Zach_R
        Forum Team
        2 years ago

        Hi AaronL1,

        Thank you for clarifying. Have you tried clearing cache and cookies, along with trying a different browser?

        Thanks,