Accounts hijacked? Awesome. Revenge?

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destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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1) Recovering a hijacked Facebook account is actually kind of neat.
2) Recovering a hijacked Gmail account, is absolute torture.
3) Like everything in my life, I am late to the concept of strong, unique passwords, and the class on Learning Lessons.
(3a) LastPass is fucking awesome.

Everything seems to be back to normal, so far no real damage.

Except my entire Google Contacts directory apparently got wiped. Either in the account recovery process, or that damn Son of a Nigerian* Bitch wiped that just to be an absolute prick.

*Nigeria: location of computer that last accessed my Facebook account prior to recovery.
[someone ban this damn country from this internet already. Their President was on to something when he banned them from Federation Football.]

/blog

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Is it possible to enact any serious revenge on the perp(s)?

Was thinking something was going on with my account still, wasn't getting any email.
Checked the trash folder. All my latest messages have been going there.
So... I knew there had to be some kind of account forward or filter the perp(s) constructed. Sure enough, there was an email address they were having sent copies of all my recent email.

"destrekor@icerocket.com"

And the address they wanted money sent to by means of Western Union:

Location:21 Burnaby Street, Chelsea,
Greater London
SW10 0PL.
United Kingdom

Facebook had shown an IP located in Nigeria. But I've used my email too much now and didn't get a chance to copy down any IPs from the Recent Activity section. I'm a dumbass, should have went there first.
 
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rasczak

Lifer
Jan 29, 2005
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lol sorry to hear you got jacked. glad no real damage was done. still the nigerians are pretty tech savvy.
 
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nonameo

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Mar 13, 2006
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I wish I could tell you my passwords, I'm so proud of them... but that would defeat the purpose :p
 
cKGunslinger

cKGunslinger

Lifer
Nov 29, 1999
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I had all my email accounts hijacked 2 weeks ago. Gmail and Yahoo were pretty easy to get back.
 
datalink7

datalink7

Lifer
Jan 23, 2001
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My account on gmail got compromised but nothing happened to it (they must have not gotten around to doing anything by the time I found out). It was my own fault (I had a stupid simple password). I now have a 20 character password that uses numbers, symbols, and a mix of random letters (capitals and lower case).
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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datalink7 said:
My account on gmail got compromised but nothing happened to it (they must have not gotten around to doing anything by the time I found out). It was my own fault (I had a stupid simple password). I now have a 20 character password that uses numbers, symbols, and a mix of random letters (capitals and lower case).
Click to expand...

Yep. I don't even know my passwords now. :D

Each one is a random string, sort of like mashing the keyboard, some capitals and symbols thrown in for good measure. LastPass offers the ability to generate random keys like that, and I've done that now for all my critical websites, and use the app to log in.

I'll actually be paying the $12/year so I can use LastPass on my Droid, and will use special measures to use my passwords when I get on computers that are not mine. Thinking of caring around one of the LastPass tools on a USB drive that I'll throw on my key chain.



But as far as this whole fiasco:

Going to be monitoring my banks and other sites even far more insanely, though I pay a lot of attention to my financial information at the moment.

I'm sure I'll be getting even more messages (got a few calls, sms, and IMs today asking me about the emails or telling me I got hacked. Glad friends look out like that!) asking me what's going on.
Was tempted to just get a new account, but literally everything I have ever done on the internet, post AOL, is tied to my gmail account. Should increase the email ties to my .mil address, but really just want to reserve that for official communication only.



FelixDeKat, did you really get an email?
:biggrin:
 
Jeff7

Jeff7

Lifer
Jan 4, 2001
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My password solution: Make them as complex and random as the server in question will allow.

All of those get saved, and put in a heavily-encrypted Truecrypt volume to store all those files, under one crazy master password.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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Jeff7 said:
My password solution: Make them as complex and random as the server in question will allow.

All of those get saved, and put in a heavily-encrypted Truecrypt volume to store all those files, under one crazy master password.
Click to expand...

Seems like you made your own version of LastPass.
 
thescreensavers

thescreensavers

Diamond Member
Aug 3, 2005
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Jeff7 said:
My password solution: Make them as complex and random as the server in question will allow.

All of those get saved, and put in a heavily-encrypted Truecrypt volume to store all those files, under one crazy master password.
Click to expand...



^ oh man my friend and I made a server from an old 800mhz box, we had a 72 character password, took like 5 min to input it haha.
 
destrekor

destrekor

Lifer
Nov 18, 2005
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You might want to edit the actual email out of the post. To ensure you actually don't receive spam. Bots crawl the web all nefariously like that. ;)
 
OUCaptain

OUCaptain

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Nov 21, 2007
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An old friend of mine told me a pretty easy way to come up with good passwords. Think of an obscure song you like. Take the first letter of the first ten words of the song. There you go. Easy for you to remember but nearly impossible for anyone to guess. It's kept me hijack free since Prodigy.
 
NesuD

NesuD

Diamond Member
Oct 9, 1999
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Make sure in you r password recovery options that they haven't setup a phone number to have a reset code sent via sms. I got hijacked sometime back. Got control of the gmail account back but didn't notice for a few days that they had setup sms to text to a number in

...... Wait for it!......



Nigeria! I changed that right away.
 
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arkcom

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Mar 25, 2003
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My gmail got jacked about 30 minutes ago. They tried to send a bunch of spam, but gmail caught all of the messages, as far as I can tell. Does somebody hack google to get the password, or do they brute force it?
 
JTsyo

JTsyo

Lifer
Nov 18, 2007
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My wife's google account got hacked. She had to enter a cell number and they send her a text with a recovery code.
 
Demon-Xanth

Demon-Xanth

Lifer
Feb 15, 2000
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Get the nigerian IP, post on slashdot saying you've made your computer completely unhackable by tweaking the registry and firewall and post that IP.
 
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