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Unbelievable. My Gmail & Facebook accounts were hacked this morning. I am hoping to retrieve both back within 24 hours. Have this happened to anyone? Any problems? Were you able to get it back? This is my first time it happened. I actually am "lost" without them and I use them for EVERYTHING, mostly networking & keeping in touch with friends.
Nothing happened to mine. I just turned it on. Everything was in order. What happens when your account is hacked? :confused: Thank God it
Nothing happened to my account, y was fine. What happens when your account is hacked, never had an account hacked before Thank God. What happens? :confused:
There is a hack out there that send out emails begging for money, etc. I got from "Rachel" today claiming she was in London and had been robbed, needed me to wire her money, etc.
Rachel, this happened to my sister-in-law earlier this summer, she was able to get back her account, but it took some doing.
Yup, that is "me".. that is unfortunate. I just hope I am able to get mine back soon! How long did it take her to get her account back? Would it be better to have Facebook deactivate and I can just come up with a new one?Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
In her case, I don't think her Facebook was hacked, just her email. It took her a few days to get it back. But if you know all your "friends" and can easily recreate your friends list, I'd delete that Facebook account, and start a new one.
Yeah it is JUST my e-mail address that has been hacked (which is gmail), so because of that, I can't access it, along with my Facebook since that is the e-mail I use to login. *sigh* Hopefully I'll get it back within a couple days. I was not able to 'delete' because it isn't under my control, but the hacker's.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
So how do these hackers select an email name?? Is it random?? Where do they get it?
I have NO idea! I'm confused on how it could happen. I had a very strong password, no one would know what it was. Guess it wasn't 'enough' to keep my profile & e-mail acct. safe.Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
I have gmail. I've always had the same password - maybe I should change it?? :confused::confused: I've never had a problem so far tho, so do I leave well enough alone?? :confused::confused:
Anyone out there have any suggestions??
It is best to change your password every once in a while, but more important to never ever click on any spam, or give your email address to a website you do not know ...Quote:
Originally Posted by pomtzu
I lost my Gmail earlier this summer for a few days. Couldn't access it at all. I was very lost without it. If you click on "can't access your account" on the sign-in screen, you can get Google to send an activation code to your cell phone. Then there is a field on Gmail where you enter the activation code and it allows you to change your password and regain access to your account. I had to do this twice, because the first time Google sent me the activation code, I couldn't find the field to enter it.Quote:
Originally Posted by CountryWolf07
Reading this thread reminds me that after this happened I thought to myself that I should get a flash drive and back up all my contacts onto it.
I'd also like to add to NEVER follow a link in a email to an account you already have anywhere. Always type it in your browser..Quote:
It is best to change your password every once in a while, but more important to never ever click on any spam, or give your email address to a website you do not know ..
I get email in my "other" email address from facebook saying Mrs. XXX sent me a friends request and Mrs. XXX is already my friend. This email look REAL and is exactly like the one fb send out.... however I KNOW fb does not and has not ever had that address.. It always has a link to follow to facebook and KNOWING it was phishers, I clicked on it just for the heck of it (I had my FB page already opened in another window) to see what would happen and sure enough, it came up a page looking exactly like the real BF but asking me to log in.. (If I had done it, they would have had MY information and hacked my account)
I recently got another one in that same account saying Mr. ZZZ had sent me a friends request.
I change my password often in my email accounts and on FB.
My email got hacked earlier this year; I think it was some kind of 'bot because random links were being sent to my contacts under my email address. I changed my password and it stopped.
My problem is that I use the gmail account as my login address for Facebook. Although I had different passwords for both accounts, it just makes me wonder, how in the heck did this person ever find out my information, etc.
I can't access for a new password in my gmail account because THAT password is changed. It's ridiculous. I did send a couple recovery e-mails, and the Gmail team cannot access to my e-mail. It says that it cannot be FOUND but they have disabled my e-mail account from any further suspicious activities.. Oh boy.
I am still waiting to hear back from the Facebook team, since I already reported the issue. Apparently so it seems that the hacker disabled my wall so no one can write comments on it, so I'm not too worried about that issue. So hopefully that will be resolved, because I can't deactivate it the account myself. (he must've changed BOTH passwords)...
THANK YOU to WHOEVER you are! :mad: However, I am trying to be relaxed and this all will be resolved sooner or later.
I already do adhere to all of the obvious precautions, so I'll probably just continue with what I've been doing, and maybe just change my password.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
Rachel, keep in mind that there are not just kids sitting and trying passwords, and "guessing" - you need to pick a password that does not contain just a couple words that could be found in a dictionary - a piece of software can try all those programmatically. A good password has numbers and letters, and even characters like # or & or *@%... you get the idea. The more complicated it is, the better.
Thanks, I will.Quote:
Originally Posted by Karen
Still not able to get my e-mail/facebook accts. back, yet.
Wanted to share this with everyone, if you ever get hacked on Facebook, you will get a message informing you. It just states the time that the password has been changed.
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/1184/facebookfn.jpg
Geez, that sucks! How scary!
Hope you'll get your email/FB account back!
I was able to retrieve my gmail account, along with my Facebook account, today! This time, I changed my passwords, hopefully stronger enough now that I won't have a issue again like yesterday. Gmail did a very good job - They provided me information of what time the hacker got into my e-mail and pretty much recorded every activity. The IP address traced back to Nigeria, Africa.
Very scary!!!! :eek:
thatīs great.. I mean that you got everything back...Quote:
Originally Posted by CountryWolf07
may I ask how they fixed this.. who did you contacted?.. was it through your alternate email provided to gmail?.. wanna know just in case ;)
and those Nigerians... first they wanna give you money then the hack your email..:rolleyes::p
A couple of weeks ago I logged into one of my gmail accounts that I use sporadically and it was loaded with spam and there was a header warning from Gmail saying my account may of been hacked and to change my password immediately. I did that, deleted the spam and I haven't had any problems since. None of my old emails were missing.
Glad you got it sorted out! :)
Basically, I had to set up another gmail account, so Facebook/Gmail could contact me about my original gmail account. So, once I was able to get my original account back, what Kim just said, a header showed up at the top of my inbox, in RED, warning me that my account may of been hacked and to change my password immediately, and so I did that. Gmail did give me a page of the IP addresses, showing me the strange activity that was going on, and it was all coming from Nigeria!
Once I got into my original email, I had to change everything in settings. Apparently this hacker set up a 'forwarding' address, so I had to delete that, etc. because my messages were not coming in Inbox, as it should be, and kept ending up in Trash. All fixed now! :)
After I read of all this, I changed my Google password. I made it so darn complicated, that I had to write it down until I get used to it. :eek:
Gmail is good about sorting out spam and sending it directly to the spam box, rather than the regular in box. Occasionally a spam gets thru, but not too often. You can tell without even reading them, that most are from Nigeria, and I just delete them en-masse.
Facebook has disabled my account again, I suppose to make sure that it was me, using it, so they keep asking me questions. It is taking forever to get my account back, even though it only has been a day. It is frustrating. :(
I had a couple of strange e-mails on my Hotmail account. They were names I didn`t know so I didn`t open them.