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Account hacking

BD231

BD231

Lifer
I have a security issue im not quite able to figure out. No matter what kind of account I create online gaming, email or otherwise, they're all getting hacked and tampered with.

Not sure who's responsible but whoever is doing it is trying to ensure I'm aware they have access to my accounts. E-mail's are not getting out, money is being stolen, emails I never made or sent are going out, tons of saved drafts with weird message's or one line sentence's appear in my saved drafts folder. Emails I send that do happen to make it out end up getting a response to an email account the e-mail wasn't even sent out on. As of right now I cannont make an e-mail address that isn't instantly compromised and I need some ideas on how it's being done so I can stop or at least get around it.

I've changed my IP several times which doesn't seem to slow them down at all. What kind of tech is allowing people to do this and what kind of legal action can be taken? I have enough saved emails that have been tampered with to show to my ISP what's going on but short of making/sending emails on completely different connections and accounts these people don't seem to have an issues blocking or intercepting all communications.
 
Could only be about 3 things.

lxskllr said:
Someone in your house? Keylogger?
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This is one. Or maybe your router isn't secured properly and someone in a car outside is having all this fun.

Assuming your competent enough to change your email passwords and not have everything linked to that email, and competent enough to understand the recovery options available to the hacker.....Then the most likely cause is something on your network has been infected. Could be your router/cell phone/PC.
 
Are these coming from one computer, or visible on any machine at your location?

What kind of connection do you have?
Wired /wireless connection?
Is the wireless secured? and if so, how?
Sharing your connection with anyone?
 
ketchup79 said:
Are these coming from one computer, or visible on any machine at your location?

What kind of connection do you have?
Wired /wireless connection?
Is the wireless secured? and if so, how?
Sharing your connection with anyone?
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It's an internet connection. No wireless router, sharing or home networks of any kind.
 
Give me some ideas on how these people are taping a fire walled connection and intercepting/redirecting emails externally.
 
If you are the only one on the computer, and the computer is the only one on the connection, some type of keylogger is most likely at work here.

Here is some good direction on telling if you have one ...

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...nstalled/d14c6cd6-6975-4b25-a2c5-17e5de194b50

Now, as for me personally, I wouldn't waste too much time with a keylogger. If the above steps don't take care of this, I would backup the data, wipe the drive, and reinstall, but maybe that's just me.
 
BD231 said:
Give me some ideas on how these people are taping a fire walled connection and intercepting/redirecting emails externally.
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Dude, I already told you. You're asking questions that are irrelevant for the most part. It's either your computer, or you've failed to secure your E-mail.

Perhaps the intruder previously had access to E-mail account and went into the settings and has everything forwarded through a server he owns, or perhaps everything is simply just forwarded to his E-mail address.

Your firewall is only going to help you with stuff like, unauthorized program access to the Internet. Changing your IP, although a good thing to mark off the checklist, is a hail mary.

I've spent over 7 years at ITT Tech working on a degree so I can spend more time with my family. Trust me.
 
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I've done multiple re-installs to no avail, any other idea's? If its hardware based what would I be looking for?
 
BD231 said:
I've done multiple re-installs to no avail, any other idea's? If its hardware based what would I be looking for?
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You've reformatted already? No external Hard Drives of the sort? Then you've narrowed it down to your E-mail provider. Go into your E-mail account settings and check them out (not in outlook, on the actual mail server).

What E-mail are you using? Perhaps the mail server has been compromised.
 
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BD231 said:
I've done multiple re-installs to no avail, any other idea's? If its hardware based what would I be looking for?
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One possibility is that something you're reinstalling is Trojanized and contains the keylogger. Another possibility is a bootkit, which could survive conventional formatting and reinstallation of an OS, in which case I would use DBAN from dban.sourceforge.net as a better wiping method.

While a keylogger certainly looks like the most likely explanation, it's also good practices to use different passwords at every site, and use strong passwords that would not be easy to crack if the site's hash database got stolen and cracked offline.

Easy to crack: d3nv3RBr0nc0s <-- probably already in the "commonly-used pw" hash tables, so a simple matter of looking it up on a table

Not easy to crack: Ce6mrLx6hFleiDU Being non-human-friendly, the attacker would have to crack it the hard way, assuming the site is doing decent encryption on their back-end. Personally, I use biometrics to enter these with a finger swipe, but copying and pasting or using a password-management software are a couple other options.
 
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