Everything hacked. How can this happen?

Dunks said:
What makes you think that?

All the details tell you is what IP was used and nothing more.
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Tom_D said:
Details for the I.P says this is from USA, in scranton PA.
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I formatted my PC, first thing I did. It's strange how my friend said he had broken English but gmail said the I.P is comming from the US. Is it possible that they could be using a proxy?
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Just a theory.

kinky.
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Oooooh yeahhh
 
Always have AV installed and while you're at it, install Malwarebytes, spybot search and destroy and the no script addon in Firefox :)
 
I had right liitle ***** of a malware program called 'microsoft security essentials 2012' recently. It blocked me from opening programs, accessing the internet and caused various other problems too.

Had it sorted within about an hour or so, but I've no idea how it got onto my computer in the first place - past firewall, antivirus and MSSE etc. :confused:
 
When I got compromised back in 2003, it was a combination of me having an easily-guessable secret question and having the same password for a few logins. It was only my housemate messing around at the end of the day (and obviously knew a bit about about me), but it was a lesson learnt nonetheless.
 
>> Goes and changes all of his passwords to ones which aren't the same.
I have approximately 3 passwords which I use for everything. However, I'm afraid of forgetting them if I add more.
 
The thing is I don't think the passwords were guessed, more recovered because I may have had easy secret questions.

I can't understand why they'd want to hack an email account though, I don't see where the financial gain would be in it?
 
Van Hellseek said:
I had right liitle ***** of a malware program called 'microsoft security essentials 2012' recently. It blocked me from opening programs, accessing the internet and caused various other problems too.

Had it sorted within about an hour or so, but I've no idea how it got onto my computer in the first place - past firewall, antivirus and MSSE etc. :confused:
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What browser you using? Trojans get through by using doped Adverts. Best to block at the source by keeping an upto date hosts list using spybot and sweeping with MBAM, don't rely on MSE, it's hopeless for protection (have had bad experiences with it at work and at home). Switched to Avast and so far so good, would like to move to paid kaspersky in future but for now free avast is ok.
 
Typically nothing to do with a virus in my experience, either someone figuring out your easy secret question or someone you know figuring out your password which you used for every account.
 
Tom_D said:
The thing is I don't think the passwords were guessed, more recovered because I may have had easy secret questions.

I can't understand why they'd want to hack an email account though, I don't see where the financial gain would be in it?
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WoW accounts, steam accounts, email spam, and just general blackmail.

All of the above can be used to make money, WoW gold sells, maybe your friends would be happy to download a hack/cheat, use your email to send out spam and get round filters, or worst case lock away your account or emails and ask for money.
 
Tom_D said:
The thing is I don't think the passwords were guessed, more recovered because I may have had easy secret questions.

I can't understand why they'd want to hack an email account though, I don't see where the financial gain would be in it?
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With access to your email they can access almost every website you have an account with using that address simply by resetting the password, so web stores, paypal, ebay, banking, etc. They can also access all your household related sites, energy, phone, TV, Internet, etc. Then all game accounts and similar which they could sell on, etc. Not to mention that with all this they can steal your identity easily, take out a loan or credit card, order a bunch of stuff, etc. They can read all your private emails too, which could be bad depending what's in them :p
 
I have no real idea but it could be as Gzero suggested and you visited a booby trapped website.

I was looking at hard drive info the other day, clicked a link from an OK site which took me somewhere else and Kaspersky flashed up that it had blocked a Trojan, with you having no anti-virus you would have had no clue.

Why on earth weren't you using an anti-virus?
 
Also - it goes without saying you need to make sure windows is fully updated.

(although if you didnt have virus protection then you may not have bothered with updating either :D)
 
My hotmail got accessed last week and I only knew as it sent everyone in my address book a link endorsing some product/web site.

Funnily enough it was the address that I originally linked with my PSN (Playstation) account, though that could just be coincidence. I've since closed the account.
 
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