Gmail account hacked.

Gamer_T

Gamer_T

Gamer_T

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Hi guys,

So I pretty much use Gmail every single day. Today, when logging in, I got a message saying I needed to verify my account with my mobile phone as my email account had a lock on it.

So I verified my account, checked my email folder and I see that there's about 20 messages in my inbox folder with delivery failures. Looking into these and it seems like a hacker has got a list of my contacts and has attempted to send emails advertising some dodgy pharmacy.

Now my question is, how has this happened? Considering my AV is always up to date and I never ever download anything dodgy.

I use the same password for all of my accounts so I'm amazed my other account haven't been hacked either!
 
I thought I was secure as you, and then realised someone had very cleverly used social engineering to get all the relevant details to reset my password. However, this doesn't match up with spam emails being sent from your account :s
 
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Ok, this happened to me the other week and from what I can gather is happening a LOT at the moment. I take the best care I can with my IT security. My PC is scanned at least weekly. My passwords are not a single dictionary word.

I know that absolutely nobody here will believe that I had no involvement in my GMail account being used to spam my contacts list, but I truly believe I didn't. My password has now been changed to something even more secure than it was before but that was purely an obvious precaution.

There are too many cases of this being reported lately.
 
Gamer_T said:
I use the same password for all of my accounts so I'm amazed my other account haven't been hacked either!
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1. that's pretty dumb
2. how do you know for certain other accounts haven't been hacked?
3. change passwords on all your accounts now if you haven't already
4. you have a paypal account? now the hackers can steal your monies
 
Odd. The other day I log on at home instead of my phone and have a warning that my account had been accessed from somewhere strange. I check and someone accessed my account from China. :/
 
I want to change all my account passwords again to something different aswell. But I struggle to remember them all. Is there any decent software that can manage them all. Googling it really takes you to some dodgy looking products.
 
DAvE18 said:
I want to change all my account passwords again to something different aswell. But I struggle to remember them all. Is there any decent software that can manage them all. Googling it really takes you to some dodgy looking products.
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Keepass

obviously the whole thing depends upon the strength of your master password and keeping the database safe
 
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