Comments | kali921: Great. Juuuuuust great. My e-mail was hacked.

kali921

Great. Juuuuuust great. My e-mail was hacked.

Aug 16, 2011 10:34

When I attempted to sign onto e-mail this morning, Yahoo tells me that my account was "compromised." It took forever to change my password and log onto e-mail. At first glance nothing looks missing, but if any of you received weird e-mails from me in the last twenty-four hours, please let me know. My sent folder shows no e-mail sent but with ( Read more... )

rl, fuck this bullshit

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canadabear August 16 2011, 17:55:18 UTC

Ugh. That happened to my hotmail a while back. Not fun, but at least it sounds like nothing catastrophic happened. <3

kali921 August 16 2011, 18:29:31 UTC

What happened with your Hotmail account? Did they send out e-mails from your account to your contact list?

canadabear August 16 2011, 19:38:08 UTC

Yep. I changed my password, though, and that stopped it.

kali921 August 17 2011, 00:59:17 UTC

It hasn't stopped this. I change my password, they change it to something else, and I can't get into my account.

ceitfianna August 16 2011, 18:50:27 UTC

*hugs* I'm sorry, my hotmail account was hacked last year now I rely more on Gmail.

The most annoying thing they did to me was they copied all of my contact list and took it. I'm so glad you were able to get back in so quickly.

kali921 August 17 2011, 00:53:33 UTC

I'm not back in. I reset my password and they immediately reset it so we've been playing tug of war all day long. I don't know how to stop them from changing my password.

ceitfianna August 17 2011, 00:54:53 UTC

Oh well fuck. Can you contact yahoo and get their help?

I basically had to prove myself to Hotmail before I could get my account properly back.

kali921 August 17 2011, 00:58:25 UTC

Did you talk to a real person at Hotmail?

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backtothelight August 16 2011, 18:54:40 UTC

Mom's Hotmail was hacked, and my Gmail was compromised not long ago. Nothing happened with mine, except they deleted one email that had a picture attached. They sent out spam from my mom's. Just change your password to something all l33ted out unpredictably and send an email to all of your contacts apologising if anything happened and letting them know what happened. It's the only thing you can really do.

shadowlongknife August 16 2011, 19:19:23 UTC

Yahoo's pretty good for keeping viruses in check, so I should be fine if they send anything my way. My spamfilter usually catches anything sent with a link, or mass emails.

Changing your pw seems to be the only thing I can think of, hon.

kali921 August 17 2011, 00:56:11 UTC

It's not working. The moment I change my password, they intercept it and change it to something else. So they're still in control of my e-mail account.

shadowlongknife August 17 2011, 10:39:55 UTC

When you set up the email, did you set an outside account in case of loss of password? You can email yahoo support from that account, I think.

kaylan August 16 2011, 23:23:59 UTC

A site I frequent was hacked recently. They advised that if anyone uses the same password over multiple sites they should make sure to change the passwords at those sites too.

XKCD recently did a strip about password strength: http://xkcd.com/936/
I've been thinking I should change mine again soon, to be safe.

*hugs* Getting hacked sucks, hopefully catching it quickly will mean there's minimal issues to deal with.