Unbelievable. Gmail/Facebook: HACKED!

**pomtzu** · 08-31-2010, 04:03 PM

Originally Posted by Karen

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 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.

**Karen** · 08-31-2010, 04:54 PM

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.

**CountryWolf07** · 08-31-2010, 07:04 PM

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.

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.

**Kirsten** · 09-01-2010, 02:41 PM

Geez, that sucks! How scary!

Hope you'll get your email/FB account back!

**CountryWolf07** · 09-01-2010, 03:48 PM

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.

**Daisy and Delilah** · 09-01-2010, 03:56 PM

Very scary!!!!

**Husky_mom** · 09-01-2010, 04:02 PM

Originally Posted by CountryWolf07

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.

that´s great.. I mean that you got everything back...

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..