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Random Hacking

Well it seems I have been hacked.

Again.

This time an email has gone out to all my contacts saying that I am in the Ukraine, I have had my handbag stolen and all my credit cards and I am penniless and can you please send me some money to stop me from starving or words to that effect.

Now I know that nearly everyone this has gone to will ignore it or have it filtered etc but this kind of thing is Hacked-cartoonreally irritating. I also wonder why it is done.   Do people think that anybody is going to fall for this kind of thing? Or do they do it just for the fun of causing problems.   I think it is the latter as all my friends and contacts will know full well that the Ukraine is not on the list of places I am likely to zap off to on a mini-break and particularly NOT in the middle of February.   If I want to freeze and get out my thermals I can stay here in Colchester thank you very much.

So my apologies to all of you who have been bothered. I have now reset my account and changed my password and am also in the process of adding all my contacts which have been wiped as well.

'sigh'

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12 responses to “Random Hacking”

  1. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Oh I know Susan but then I ahve to write it down to remember it and it is such a pain. I have moved on from an obvious password now which I realise a clever person could guess and hope that it suffices. if not, then I may have to do what you recommend

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  2. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Better not start me on Pietersen. Bloody stupid and cowardly thing to do. OUtrage here and most people simplhy cannot understand it. But as I said I had better not start…

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  3. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    First I knew about it was when I went to a friend for coffee and she said Oh you got back ok then!! SOOOO annoying

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  4. Susan Abraham Avatar
    Susan Abraham

    Hi Elaine, for your next password and maybe if you reset other passwords too, just use a Word jumbled up with Capital Letters, Numbers and add on an Exclamation or Question Mark. This, if you haven’t done so already as such passwords would be very difficult to hack into.

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  5. Jan C Avatar
    Jan C

    What a pain to have to re-do your contacts list. Must take ages. Including your ‘Random’ lists too?
    Yes, one has to wonder what kind of people do this knd of thing.
    Petersen will be a big loss!

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  6. Andrea Avatar
    Andrea

    Oh Elaine, that happened to me on gmail and I couldn’t shut down the email account because I can’t read enough Hebrew to reset the account. I had no clue it happened until I got a call from one of my oldest friends asking if I was safe. I let my email list know, got on our web accounts, and now we are saf-er.
    Next time it happens, and we all know there will be a next time. I’ll leave the internet for a while…close down my emails and fb and twitter, and come back after a hiatus

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  7. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    Who needs the Ukraine when you live in Colchester?
    Only joking…..

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  8. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    This is the second time in two years. Think I have to reset a password which is unbreakable or unhackable. I am afraid mine are rather too predictable

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  9. Margaret Stedman Avatar
    Margaret Stedman

    Sorry about the inconvenience of the hacking but I am mighty pleased to know you are not in the Ukraine at present and in mid-Winter!

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  10. Carole Avatar
    Carole

    I suspect this is Yahoo as we have all been having troubles non-stop with them. I have complained, I think(!), the complaints proceedure needs a PhD in computing which I don’t have. Poor you, and grrrrrrr!

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  11. Elaine Avatar
    Elaine

    That is APPALLING. Jeez there are some sick people in this world

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  12. Pam Avatar
    Pam

    Elaine,
    My elderly in-laws once got a phone call from a guy saying he was their grandson and that he had been in an accident in the Philippines and needed money to get home. They frantically called this boy’s father and found out that it wasn’t true but of course were very upset by it all. What kind of person does that?

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