Anyone with any sense would ignore everything Judas BentHer posts. This is coming from a student who has a degree in Computer Science (with a minor in Information Security), who is currently doing a Masters in Information Security itself.
It is tragic when someone hacks into your personal email; it has happened to me once before, though luckily I managed to get the account back. What is even more tragic is using scare tactics based on utter bullshit. The internet is not the hacker playground that Judas BentHer thinks it is; hacking is hard; hacking a company like Google (who prides itself on the levels of security that go into their development) is harder.
This is all being blown out of proportion. The "hack" was a simple password hijack, whether the hacker either guessed it, or managed to obtain it via phishing. The security of Gmail is not in question here; the validity of anything that Judas BentHer posts should be. This is a person who has previously stated it could be a WiFi hack, even though there is no evidence to suggest it is, and such an attack is infeasible. This is a person who has publicly stated that there is no way to send images in emails other than by "uploading" them first, despite the fact that emails have had attachments since the first MIME RFC was released in 1993. http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1521/
I have to agree with most other people here though; there is no point attempting to hunt this hacker down. An IP address is a start, but a very limited one at that. It only addresses the last internet router that the hacker went through; that could be his home router; it could be a router on a massive network of networks, meaning thousands of people have the same IP. The only thing you can realistically do is to put it behind you, and take greater care of your security in the future.
It is tragic when someone hacks into your personal email; it has happened to me once before, though luckily I managed to get the account back. What is even more tragic is using scare tactics based on utter bullshit. The internet is not the hacker playground that Judas BentHer thinks it is; hacking is hard; hacking a company like Google (who prides itself on the levels of security that go into their development) is harder.
This is all being blown out of proportion. The "hack" was a simple password hijack, whether the hacker either guessed it, or managed to obtain it via phishing. The security of Gmail is not in question here; the validity of anything that Judas BentHer posts should be. This is a person who has previously stated it could be a WiFi hack, even though there is no evidence to suggest it is, and such an attack is infeasible. This is a person who has publicly stated that there is no way to send images in emails other than by "uploading" them first, despite the fact that emails have had attachments since the first MIME RFC was released in 1993. http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/RFC/1521/
I have to agree with most other people here though; there is no point attempting to hunt this hacker down. An IP address is a start, but a very limited one at that. It only addresses the last internet router that the hacker went through; that could be his home router; it could be a router on a massive network of networks, meaning thousands of people have the same IP. The only thing you can realistically do is to put it behind you, and take greater care of your security in the future.
