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My e-mail was Hacked!
#31
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 6:26 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: Thank you Adrian for your input and not making this out to be a joke...

And thank you for making it into a joke.

Being an internet tough guy does that.
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#32
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: I told my girlfriend and now shes worried... should she be?
I'd say it depends on what she showed in the pictures. If she got full on sexy, anyone who's balls enough to hack an email account is capable of about anything because in doing that they're looking for something personal of yours. The question I'd have is how they found my email. Bots roam the net and seek them out for SPAM and such. If you don't have your email marked private on forums profiles and any members there can go into your profile and see that email addy., that could be a source. It could be someone that knows you personally or solely on the net. So I'd take an inventory of what exactly they took and how it all relates to the worst possible scenario.

One safeguard with regard to forums memberships is to have a SPAM email account that you use solely to register on forums. That way if anyone gets your email through that route they find nothing personal. Just direct everything to your SPAM folder and have it automatically empty every 24 hours and you'll be set. Then find a secure email server for your personal stuff and don't give that out to anyone you don't know personally. While online contacts of any kind can be directed to that aforementioned SPAM account.

As for your GF, if she got risque' in the pictures, there's always something to worry about. People love porn. Look at all those homemade porno's that are on the markets now. Think of the level of voyeurism that's present every moment of every day when out in public and what with all the nifty electronic peepers that are able to video and upload to You Tube or emails in the blink of an eye. So what one thinks are private sexy pictures being sent to their BF or GF is never private. It's the net. And as you've learned, it's not safe.
Why worry? Will it change what is? Will it stop the piece of work that hacked your E from doing whatever they want with what they got? No. However, it will give them power over both of you if you worry and fret about what is outside of your control regarding their actions in future, using what they stole from you.

Instead, let this be a lesson. When sending or posting anything personal on the net think! Ask yourself, how would I feel if the whole world could see this? Which, with hackers, is quite possible. Empower yourself, not the hacker. Don't worry about what they'll do because that's nothing you can control. Instead work as hard as you'd worry about them making sure this never happens again, as much as you can work to insure that.

I wish you both all the best. And I hope that fucking hackers fingers break so that when they heal they never can work a keyboard again.

Hey, channel the rage out of yourself man. I go to the batting range when something has me ticked off. Wail hell out of that ball with everything I've got, picturing what or who I'm pissed at superimposed right on that ball. And then, SMACK! I beat hell out of it and it goes away and when it shows up again, I've lost that much steam from the first hit, so the second one isn't as mad because I let it out the first time. I do that until I'm exhausted, visualizing the whole time that every whack of that bat in contact with that ball (Troubles, asshat, etc...) releases my negative emotions about it so I can get rid of that and start to work on what empowers me in the situation instead of my adversary.

Besides, paying for a round in a batters cage is hella lot cheaper than all the costs that follow my putting my fist down some numbnuts throat and ripping out his tongue by the root. There's medical, court costs, fines, damages. Why pay an asshole for being an asshole with dings? And the real perk? No Felony on my record. While the batters cage manager loves me like a brother. Tongue
"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
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#33
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 7:25 pm)Moros Synackaon Wrote:
(July 18, 2011 at 6:26 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: Thank you Adrian for your input and not making this out to be a joke...

And thank you for making it into a joke.

Being an internet tough guy does that.

I'm legitimately angry. I still don't see what's so funny. This is fucked up and I'm not trying to be an "internet tough guy" I'm trying to get help to track this guy so then I can actually act like an "internet tough guy."
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Why do you not take me seriously?
(July 18, 2011 at 7:36 pm)Judas BentHer Wrote:
(July 18, 2011 at 5:09 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: I told my girlfriend and now shes worried... should she be?
I'd say it depends on what she showed in the pictures. If she got full on sexy, anyone who's balls enough to hack an email account is capable of about anything because in doing that they're looking for something personal of yours. The question I'd have is how they found my email. Bots roam the net and seek them out for SPAM and such. If you don't have your email marked private on forums profiles and any members there can go into your profile and see that email addy., that could be a source. It could be someone that knows you personally or solely on the net. So I'd take an inventory of what exactly they took and how it all relates to the worst possible scenario.

One safeguard with regard to forums memberships is to have a SPAM email account that you use solely to register on forums. That way if anyone gets your email through that route they find nothing personal. Just direct everything to your SPAM folder and have it automatically empty every 24 hours and you'll be set. Then find a secure email server for your personal stuff and don't give that out to anyone you don't know personally. While online contacts of any kind can be directed to that aforementioned SPAM account.

As for your GF, if she got risque' in the pictures, there's always something to worry about. People love porn. Look at all those homemade porno's that are on the markets now. Think of the level of voyeurism that's present every moment of every day when out in public and what with all the nifty electronic peepers that are able to video and upload to You Tube or emails in the blink of an eye. So what one thinks are private sexy pictures being sent to their BF or GF is never private. It's the net. And as you've learned, it's not safe.
Why worry? Will it change what is? Will it stop the piece of work that hacked your E from doing whatever they want with what they got? No. However, it will give them power over both of you if you worry and fret about what is outside of your control regarding their actions in future, using what they stole from you.

Instead, let this be a lesson. When sending or posting anything personal on the net think! Ask yourself, how would I feel if the whole world could see this? Which, with hackers, is quite possible. Empower yourself, not the hacker. Don't worry about what they'll do because that's nothing you can control. Instead work as hard as you'd worry about them making sure this never happens again, as much as you can work to insure that.

I wish you both all the best. And I hope that fucking hackers fingers break so that when they heal they never can work a keyboard again.

Hey, channel the rage out of yourself man. I go to the batting range when something has me ticked off. Wail hell out of that ball with everything I've got, picturing what or who I'm pissed at superimposed right on that ball. And then, SMACK! I beat hell out of it and it goes away and when it shows up again, I've lost that much steam from the first hit, so the second one isn't as mad because I let it out the first time. I do that until I'm exhausted, visualizing the whole time that every whack of that bat in contact with that ball (Troubles, asshat, etc...) releases my negative emotions about it so I can get rid of that and start to work on what empowers me in the situation instead of my adversary.

Besides, paying for a round in a batters cage is hella lot cheaper than all the costs that follow my putting my fist down some numbnuts throat and ripping out his tongue by the root. There's medical, court costs, fines, damages. Why pay an asshole for being an asshole with dings? And the real perk? No Felony on my record. While the batters cage manager loves me like a brother. Tongue

But I was horny.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#34
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 7:40 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: But I was horny.
Can you say the same thing now? After all that's transpired with the hacking?
Goes without saying, that hacker was too. Of course that was after they broke into your email.

"In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."
Brian Tracy
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#35
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 7:45 pm)Judas BentHer Wrote:
(July 18, 2011 at 7:40 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: But I was horny.
Can you say the same thing now? After all that's transpired with the hacking?
Goes without saying, that hacker was too. Of course that was after they broke into your email.

I know you're right but she isn't around right now for me to be with her so the closest thing I can get for a while is that.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#36
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 7:40 pm)HeyItsZeus Wrote: Why do you not take me seriously?

Because he likes being an asshole Big Grin
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#37
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
boooooooooooooohoo, pray to ur god!
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#38
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
(July 18, 2011 at 7:55 pm)HeartSings Wrote: boooooooooooooohoo, pray to ur god!

Trolling is fun isn't it?
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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#39
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
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.
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#40
RE: My e-mail was Hacked!
Once again, thank you Adrian for your help.
Quote:"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. "
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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