Heads-up about a hack.

keets

I thought I should warn or otherwise notify everyone that my e-mail and several accounts of mine have been hacked. If I had your e-mail address, web-site or any information saved in a message you may get an e-mail from me, probably asking for help getting some GiftCards or other stuff like that. I spoke with a friend this morning who's message was in my "Trash" and the hacker(s) had used it for that purpose. If you get something like that from me please ignore it and notify me via PM. I have already changed my profile so I get no "e-mail notifications" about anything. It took awhile but most accounts have either been changed or locked.

I'm sorry if this has adversely affected anyone here. Please accept my apologies if it has and I'll do whatever I can to help.

Al H.

ricko

Thanks for the warning Al....No emails yet.....will be on the watch though. Cheers, RickO

Zoins

Sorry to hear that! Hope you get everything under control and there's no / limited damage.

topstuf

What was the email service? Yahoo mail blew up several days ago.
I ........had..... 3 email accts. Now 2.
I direct all strange sites to my secondary.

jmlanzaf

We always knew there was a downside to knowing you.

johnny9434

Hope it gets better for ya quick

keets

I am running into a mountain of problems just trying to change my e-mail password, it's starting to get really stupid.

Jimnight

Sorry to hear that and thanks for sharing.

dpoole

Happens quite a bit. I reflexively block such notices.

I just hope you never get marooned in an Indonesian whore-house, and really need my money to buy your ticket home.

Mark

@keets No need to worry about me. I'll always ignore your emails.

More seriously , this sounds like an incredible bother. I hope you get through it quickly and as painlessly as possible.

SkyMan

Sorry you have to put up with this stuff. Good luck with everything!

AlexinPA

Seems there's a lot of that going around lately.

BryceM

My position with respect to spam callers and email hackers is that we haven’t made the consequences severe enough to dissuade anyone. I have a few things in mind....... but our kid-glove society probably has no stomach for it.

lkenefic

Yikes! I hope you get resolution quickly!

Timbuk3

Thanks for the heads up, sorry for the bad news !!! 😥

keets

finally, after more than four days I was able to reset my e-mail password. how ridiculous. I have either cancelled accounts or had them locked until I could get the e-mail done, apparently there was problem with the "Password Reset" function with the ISP, Spectrum. now I guess I wait and make sure everything is secure.

the strangest thing was with my eBay account --- nothing was purchased, nothing was saved/watched, nothing was sold --- but --- my "recently viewed" history showed all kinds of fantasy figures and crap like that, the sort of stuff a teenager might be buying. after I feel safe that my e-mail is OK I'll have to change my eBay password again and get in some sort of routine where I change stuff.

I sure don't want to go through this again and wouldn't wish the past five days on anyone.

291fifth

I have noticed a sharp increase in the number of "problem" emails in the past several months. One even included one of my passwords (fortunately one that had been changed and was no longer used). I have now reached the point of instantly deleting any email that looks in any way suspicious. There is probably a lot more info on the dark web than any of us would like to know.

Just today I received a letter from a former brokerage firm informing me that a possible breach had taken place due to lax security at a third party firm when they send old information out to be digitally destroyed. I hadn't used that brokerage firm in about nine years!