Really getting tired of hacking now

robfosters · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:15

It’s constant now. In the last few weeks, I’ve had the following accounts hacked:

Uber eats
Spotify
Netflix
eBay
Microsoft account

All have different passwords, but that doesn’t seem to be making any difference. It’s gone from merely annoying to seriously troublesome now.

muon · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:19

robfosters said:
It’s constant now. In the last few weeks, I’ve had the following accounts hacked:

Uber eats
Spotify
Netflix
eBay
Microsoft account

All have different passwords, but that doesn’t seem to be making any difference. It’s gone from merely annoying to seriously troublesome now.

It's your own fault for letting your microsoft account get hacked.

Losing control of you email account is asking for serious trouble. Why don't you have 2FA for the microsoft account?

Worse still you have a keylogger in your computer which again requires you to have fallen for a trick.

robfosters · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:29

muon said:
It's your own fault for letting your microsoft account get hacked.

Losing control of you email account is asking for serious trouble. Why don't you have 2FA for the microsoft account?

Worse still you have a keylogger in your computer which again requires you to have fallen for a trick.

How is it my fault? And what is 2FA anyway?

Diagro · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:32

robfosters said:
How is it my fault? And what is 2FA anyway?

What is 2FA?

Yea it's your fault.

Heck... KS3 IT curriculum has 2FA in it... lol

robfosters · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:37

Diagro said:
What is 2FA?

Yea it's your fault.

Heck... KS3 IT curriculum has 2FA in it... lol

Rather than be clever and smarmy, how about some info on how to enable it on Microsoft?

The IPB · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:39

You could just Google it, but anyway here:
How to use two-step verification with your Microsoft account

Longbow · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:43

Presumably they have at some point got access to your email account, thus using password recovery?

How complex are the passwords? robfosters1, robfosters2?

robfosters · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:44

Thanks. I’m thinking of getting a password manager. Is Nordpass any good?

xb8browney · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:45

Do you notice anything untoward from

https://account.live.com/Activity

robfosters · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:48

xb8browney said:
Do you notice anything untoward from

https://account.live.com/Activity

I can’t access it atm, as I had to reclaim my account and apparently it takes a month to complete

The IPB · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:50

robfosters said:
Thanks. I’m thinking of getting a password manager. Is Nordpass any good?

Bitwarden is great and it's also free.

xb8browney · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:50

robfosters said:
I can’t access it atm, as I had to reclaim my account and apparently it takes a month to complete

Ah ok sorry, hopefully it's a lot quicker.

muon · 13 Mar 2021 at 16:52

robfosters said:
How is it my fault? And what is 2FA anyway?

I'm sorry it comes across harsh, but given the forum you are on it's a really bad mistake. Always protect your email accounts. A password manager won't help you if you lose control of an email account.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...-account-b1a56fc2-caf3-a5a1-f7e3-4309e99987ca

Pants · 13 Mar 2021 at 17:09

Get yourself two factor authentication set up on your MS account.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us...d-secure-628538c2-7006-33bb-5ef4-c917657362b9

Run anti malware software on your devices. I'm not so up to date here as I haven't had the need for a long time. But this used to be the one to run: https://www.malwarebytes.com/

Then change all of your passwords (to things that aren't easily hacked with wordlists)

Diddums · 13 Mar 2021 at 17:13

If it takes a month then your account must have raised an ocean of red flags. I usually takes minutes, so it's likely triggered an investigation.

Lopéz · 13 Mar 2021 at 17:18

Diagro said:
What is 2FA?

Yea it's your fault.

Heck... KS3 IT curriculum has 2FA in it... lol

And how does it being in the current KS3 IT curriculum help someone who left school decades ago?

Scam · 13 Mar 2021 at 17:36

robfosters said:
Thanks. I’m thinking of getting a password manager. Is Nordpass any good?

A password manager isnt going to help you. You need to stop and spend a couple of hours learning how to setup 2FA/MFA on all of your accounts. In this day and age, people should be setting 2FA up on everything. I have it on these forums, even.

DampCat · 13 Mar 2021 at 18:17

Just to add, just because you're one a computer forum doesn't mean it should be expected you get smarmy elitist responses. People end up here for all sorts of reasons.

I use Bitwarden and it's great. I don't know what any of my passwords are, and the app syncs across my phone and PCs. It generates passwords, saves credit cards if you want, auto saves login information. It can also check to see if you've been exposed or your passwords are duplicated.

I'm sure other password managers are the same.

Use a 2FA app as much as possible but text message 2FA is fine for most people.

Malevolence · 13 Mar 2021 at 18:25

Anyone know how to use Authy for 2FA on a Google account?

FoxEye · 13 Mar 2021 at 18:27

muon said:
Worse still you have a keylogger in your computer which again requires you to have fallen for a trick.

And how would you know that, pray tell?