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Champipple
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Initially Posted - 05/26/2011 :  04:00:41  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
Did your email get hacked? I received some spam from you
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Response Posted - 05/26/2011 :  09:00:39  Show Profile
Yup. You should have gotten an apology from me. I'm crossing my fingers that everything's OK now. But I'm still not sure how it happened...
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Nautiduck
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Response Posted - 05/26/2011 :  12:21:54  Show Profile
Happened to me last summer. Someone hacked Hotmail.
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Response Posted - 05/27/2011 :  05:50:56  Show Profile  Visit Champipple's Homepage
No apology required. I figured that if your email was hacked it might be easier to contact you here, especially if you didn't know it. My anti-virals picked it up immediately.
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Response Posted - 05/27/2011 :  06:00:44  Show Profile
I'm still trying to figure out how it happened. I studiously avoid physhing attempts, and have what is supposed to be pretty robust protection... The implications go way beyond e-mail--kinda scary.
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Response Posted - 05/27/2011 :  06:34:45  Show Profile  Visit Prospector's Homepage
It seems to be happening to everyone with a mainstream email account (Hotmail, gmail, etc.) When mine went south, the password on it was reset so that I couldn't even get back into it to recover my contacts and let folks know. It is scary.
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Response Posted - 05/27/2011 :  12:39:06  Show Profile
I think I got lucky... A bro-in-law notified me he had received his "present" from me within 10-15 minutes of it being sent. I was logged it at the time, and immediately changed the password--possibly right before the attacker tried to. Most other people I know who've had this happen also lost access, and some found later that all of their contacts had be wiped out. This is an AT&T account I've had since the very start of their internet service, when I switched from Prodigy. Thus the simple ID, which turns out to attract a lot of spam.

I still feel like I've been burgled, with no signs of forced entry...
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