Lot of hacking going on?

[Daniel]

I found this a bit odd but I had 2 Gmail accounts hacked within a week of each other (one I use for tracking my business site etc and one I use for garbage).

The odds that this wold happen twice seem kind of out there.

Both time Google asked me "what the hell... Are you in Idia?" Or something to that effect and had me change the password.

Question is have any of you noticed more of this going on?

I have seen a few threads about Pay Pal, Amazon blah blah and I'm wondering if there is an escalating hacker problem.

 

[michaelinokc]

Oh. I thought you were talking about my guitar playing...

 

[bscenefilms]

You just got lucky. I had a bunch of stuff hacked about a year ago. Then I changed my password from 'password'.

 

[JMV]

I've never had an issue with Gmail security until late last week. I got a response to an email I never sent asking for info about a Chevy Cavalier in New Hampshire. Definitely got a "WTF" out of me and I promptly changed my password.

I could never find the email in the sent folder, so I don't know what in the world happened.

 

[BillB1960]

I've never had an issue with Gmail security until late last week. I got a response to an email I never sent asking for info about a Chevy Cavalier in New Hampshire. Definitely got a "WTF" out of me and I promptly changed my password.

I could never find the email in the sent folder, so I don't know what in the world happened.

Somebody typed the 'wrong' address, i.e. yours in the from box. Spammers use bogus addreses all the time and it used to overwhelm legitimate email addresses with bounces until the mail servers started getting better software.

 

[JMV]

Somebody typed the 'wrong' address, i.e. yours in the from box. Spammers use bogus addreses all the time and it used to overwhelm legitimate email addresses with bounces until the mail servers started getting better software.

Well that sure makes sense.

I recently sold my truck through Craigslist and had been looking around at several others to replace it. In that process I had a number of spammers contact me, so it's not surprising if one just copied and pasted my email.

 

[bertzie]

I thought this was about the recent string of celebrity phones leaking nudes.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

Coincidentally, I think the Admin on the freethought site where I mod got hacked too. This morning his account e-mailed me what is almost certainly malware.

 

[Daniel]

Kind of odd considering the odds was all I was thinking...

I've been hacked before but never like this... And never my gmail stuff.

 

[Luckynumber3]

And never my gmail stuff.

But remember, google updated their terms of condition to "better know consumer, and watch their habits.

Makes me wonder if the information they are now collecting is hackable...

 

[Hack]

Yeah, I have a different version of "Hacking".

 

[rcole_sooner]

Okay, what do you mean Google told you? I hope you did not respond to an email saying you were hacked?

If so, you may really be hacked now.

 

[Daniel]

Okay, what do you mean Google told you? I hope you did not respond to an email saying you were hacked?

If so, you may really be hacked now.

No.... A note popped up on my iGoogle sign in page.

 

[csplayer089]

Ouch. I've talked to some of my friends about this, and a lot of them have been victims of accounts getting hacked, mainly Xbox live and similar types of accounts.

And yeah, I'm the guy with the Paypal account thread. Since filing a police report, I was contacted by an officer and they've forwarded the report to the police in the city that the shipping address on the unauthorized transaction was filled out to.

 

[jcsk8]

Use REAL hard and big passwords and change them from time to time (3 to 6 months).

 

[Daniel]

Use REAL hard and big passwords and change them from time to time (3 to 6 months).

Yeah I spent about an hour last night rolling all my passwords... It's easy to get lazy.

 

[jcsk8]

Yeah I spent about an hour last night rolling all my passwords... It's easy to get lazy.

Yep. I change my more important passes. The forum ones or not so important I don´t care.
With nowadays fast computers those crackers can run millions of passwords on programs in a few hours. The easiest will fall first

 

[BillB1960]

The danger really isn't lack of password complexity it's password recursion. Imagine you use the same password for several accounts. Regardless of how complex it is if even one of those accounts is compromised then potentially they all are. Once 1 account is compromised it's simple for hackers to run a username and password against all of the major banks, credit card companies, etc and get hits.

 

[tazzboy]

Time to change the passwords.

 

[jcsk8]

The danger really isn't lack of password complexity it's password recursion. Imagine you use the same password for several accounts. Regardless of how complex it is if even one of those accounts is compromised then potentially they all are. Once 1 account is compromised it's simple for hackers to run a username and password against all of the major banks, credit card companies, etc and get hits.

Actually are both. Good point Bill. Sicne they got one they got all, if you use the same password. But creating a difficult password make things harder to break. Mix numbers, Caps lock and symbols and you´re done.