My life just got hacked :(
Apparently, some douche bag hacked into my Aion accuont, and subsequently got my primary email which contains all my job contacts, CC info, bank info, passwords and logins for all the sites I visit.
Because gmail makes it impossible to get your email back after it's been hacked, I have to spend all day cancelling cards, changing passwords, creating emails,and rebranding my website which contains my old info. As well as emailing all my old contacts letting them know of the change.
People can be douches, don't you agree?
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Because gmail makes it impossible to get your email back after it's been hacked, I have to spend all day cancelling cards, changing passwords, creating emails,and rebranding my website which contains my old info. As well as emailing all my old contacts letting them know of the change.
People can be douches, don't you agree?
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Though that totally sucks, it'd mildly weird/amusing that they got all that just from wanting to play Aion for free
Sorry man
Really frustrating. And I didn't put my bank info there, when I signed up for online banking, they email you a copy of some of your info. He doesn't have my bank number, but I mean he has all my CC numbers, contacts, passwords for websites like polycount, personal emails, etc...
Just pisses me off I have to spend all day setting up stuff over again, including redoing the images on my website, that are all branded with my old email.
Gmail is kinda stupid that way too, the only way to get your account back, is to have the exact day you made the account, the last 4 emails you sent, and the confirmation number. Rediculous.
But you should have atleast 4 passwords or something ;P
was it a keylogger or something like that?
This is exactly why I don't care for using an email provider like google for my main email address. Never mind that most of google's stuff is in perpetual beta, the fact that you don't really have any outside way of controlling your account except for your actual login (as opposed to an ISP, web host, or self provided email) is something I find a little disconcerting, yet I know so many people for which google or something similar is their primamry means of internet communication.
*whistles*
http://www.xvsxp.com/system/passwords.php
http://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=password+management+windows&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8
Do know what was your Security Question ?
Request for lost password exactly after 24 hour go same lost password it will now ask you Security Question that you have set it.
The misses and I once bought a couch on a no interest for 90 days deal. Turns out the deal was a line of credit and about 2 weeks later they sent us a card in the mail with no mention of the purchase or the store. Just a card and a "thanks for opening a line of credit with us, happy spending!" letter.
I come home and my wife is knee deep in paperwork, canceling accounts, requesting statements and for some reason she's waving a copy of my Washington State birth certificate (which I've never actually seen before) yelling into the phone "Hawaii is a state you jackass!"
Just about the time the black GMC Jimmy pulls up to take us into the witness relocation program she hangs up the phone, laughs and says it was the 90 day deal for the couch. "Cool. Is the baby in here somewhere and whats for dinner?"
So I haven't been though your pain but I saw someone go through it once, it was pretty crazy, best of luck.
Every password you make should be different, every single one.
Besides that make them all the maximum length the password is allowed (use every character) to have so that usb drive becomes your safety net, put it on your keychain and you got yourself something you keep with you at all times instead of on the net or in your e-mail, offline is key!
If you have another tower that isn't online then put them right on your desktop on that machine and access them when you need them, burn a blank disk if you feel the need to back it up just incase.
Good luck, hope it all works out and yes these kiddies are douche's.
Im going to buy a shotgun...
Sorry to hear that though man.
I have 4 passwords on a level of importance. Like the defcon scale. Works a treat.
http://keepass.info/download.html
I'm now using a 20-character randomly generated password for my bank account. Win.
haha, i live in LA. I work in venice. There are more medical pot dispensaries than supermarkets around here...
is it a crime?
depends where you're from.
This is my strategy as well. A few passwords on an importance level. This way if someone steals passwords from some forum install or online account they don't have access to everything.
You can have the most complex password in the world but if you use the same one for a game or forum as your bank....you are putting yourself at risk.
eg an email for bank account handling (eg paypal, ebay etc) which you dont give out to anyone,
an email you give out to friends and such, a business email, and a spam email account (like i have for polycount
it´s unlikely that you bank data or such will be hacked if you keep things seperate and don´t spread out your email like a wildfire..
havent received any spam on my accounts other than the spam one.
well you learn from your mustakes. Lesson learned. Bank info STAYS OFF INTERNETS
becuz internets haz them hackers.
maybe your hacker is a very attractive sexy woman stalker.
Theres some positive sides to this
DONT GIVE UP
two options, i think
either COUNTER HACKER ATTACK
or.. Lure your hacker into a submission
get his ip: address
then find his ass on the map. you can buy a membership to some websites to get that kind of address information
thers got to be something out there
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=find+ip+address&meta=&aq=f&oq=
and when you find him/her. tie his balls around barbwire tie the barb wire to the back of the vehicle and step on the gasssss