I’ve been hacked

WezV

It was a whoosh because I thought everyone with email knew that, and Steve was making a joke that went over GuitarTango's head... but maybe he was making a joke or you are, that went over mine  

goldtop

DuploLicks said:

Treat it as a handy reminder to review the quality of the passwords you use and enable 2 Factor Authentication wherever possible 

If only life were that simple. Sadly cookie stealing is a thing, and means that 2FA isn't a panacea:

JayGee

I’d be horrified if this ever happened to me. I don’t think I’d ever recover from the shame and embarrassment of people finding out how unremittingly vanilla my porn browsing habits are…

Adey

HAL9000 said:

It’s an old email address, so not worried. It does turn out though what we hadn’t updated our email on a handful of things we’d signed up for in the past. Slowly getting that sorted and not opening any emails from our potential hacker (we’ve had another this morning).

I've had the same email a couple of times.They just seem to go straight to junk these days.

I have found that these emails scams seem to come round in cycles. You get a week or so of loads of phishing type emails, and then nothing again.

Snags

WezV said:

It was a whoosh because I thought everyone with email knew that, and Steve was making a joke that went over GuitarTango's head... but maybe he was making a joke or you are, that went over mine  

Ah. It's hard to tell these days. I, personally, never make jokes. 

Ahem.

snowblind

Apparently the russians have a new botnet made up of a million internet connected doorbells which explains the new rash of scam emails. All those photos of the "postman" turning up at the door.........

Kittyfrisk

snowblind said:

Apparently the russians have a new botnet made up of a million internet connected doorbells which explains the new rash of scam emails. All those photos of the "postman" turning up at the door.........

Yeah, but they made the mistake of showing the person trying to make the delivery as having EVRI logos.
No-one is daft enough to fall for that being a possibility...

guitartango

WezV said:

It was a whoosh because I thought everyone with email knew that, and Steve was making a joke that went over GuitarTango's head... but maybe he was making a joke or you are, that went over mine  

Not everyone know this, I am afraid, take GMAIL, emails just go into "SPAM FOLDER" other providers Mark Email with **Spam***... then a user ask's you is this SPAM !

Sorry I stop being boring now

rze99

idiotwindow said:

rze99 said:

Old trick. Unfortunately some people have fallen badly for this and taken their own lives believing they will be socially ruined.

Sounds a bit apocryphal. Are there any actual documented cases of this happening?

https://www.bitdefender.co.uk/blog/hotforsecurity/romanian-man-commits-suicide-and-kills-his-4-year-old-after-falling-for-police-ransomware/

snowblind

The approach seems to be to own whatever it is that would normally be a source of shame and embarrassment and wear it as an emblem of achievement. Seems to be working in world politics these days. The planet appears to be run by a gang of fraudsters, sex offenders and criminal idiots. Take the email as a sign that you've arrived and run for high office.

notanon

You would be surprised how many big names have been hacked and spilled your email address, sometimes passwords too.

Put your email address in https://haveibeenpwned.com/ ;

You can subscribe via various methods to these databases.

darthed1981

goldtop said:

DuploLicks said:

Treat it as a handy reminder to review the quality of the passwords you use and enable 2 Factor Authentication wherever possible 

If only life were that simple. Sadly cookie stealing is a thing, and means that 2FA isn't a panacea:

The method in that video is exactly why Microsoft are trying to steer everyone towards their authenticator app and away from 2FA based on text message etc.

It's hard enough to get across to people where I work why we need it at all.

HAL9000

Looks like someone genuinely got into our email. Someone tried buying something online using a prepaid card (that fortunately had no money on it), plus a few other instances of people trying, but failing, to get into various sites we had signed up for. Like I say, it’s an old email account but there were a handful of things where we had forgotten to update our email address. That email address has now been put beyond use so hopefully everything is good.

What has been an issue though is that updating email addresses on various sites seems to involve them sending a verification code to the old email address (which I obviously needed to avoid), but normally sorted with a phone call.