I lost access to both my email account and the phone number linked to it.
The only place where my ChatGPT account is still logged in is a college lab PC.
The account was originally created using “continue with email” (not Google or Apple).
Now I can’t reset the password because I can’t access the inbox.
I’m trying to understand — from a technical / cybersecurity perspective — whether there is any real way to recover an account in this situation:
The session is active on one device
I have no access to the registered email
I have no access to the phone number
The platform doesn’t show the original password
I can’t generate a new password without email verification
What I want to know is:
Is there ANY way (session token extraction, cookie transfer, device cloning, etc.) to reauthenticate the account on another device without email access?
Or do modern platforms completely prevent account takeover even from your own active session?
Is the account realistically gone forever once the active session expires?
Should I accept the account as permanently lost?