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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:05 PM Original message |
My ebay acct was hacked, used to send junkmail & suspended, ask me anything. |
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CaliforniaPeggy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. How dreadful for you... |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:19 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. thank you dear peggy and tk. I am not that worried. It just weirds me out. |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:17 PM Response to Original message |
2. It's getting to a point where I don't even want to do anything on line anymore |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:20 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. How and why would a DU account be hacked? |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:22 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Who knows, perhaps the person was bored, I don't know... |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. The person who hacked your account was just a troll |
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zonkers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:49 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. But how exacty does one figure out a password? Guess? |
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DarkTirade (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:52 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. Most use 'cracker' programs that continually try random passwords until one works. |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 08:54 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. Malware |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:22 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. There were trojan horses on this computer as well as tons of spyware |
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Coyote_Bandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:45 PM Response to Reply #11 |
13. I had a problem |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Yeah, I wanted to choke the shit out of the bastard, but I've calmed down quite |
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Omphaloskepsis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-06-07 12:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Did you use the same password on all of them? |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-06-07 12:20 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Two of the passwords are the same ( or at least they were...they have been changed ) |
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TK421 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 10:28 PM Response to Reply #6 |
12. You know, this is pretty scary because a co-worker of mine had his |
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KatyaR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
10. That happened to me a few months ago, and I had no idea. |
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Maraya1969 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-05-07 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
15. Same thing happened to me. It was awful. I kept getting these spoof |
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woodsprite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Oct-06-07 12:42 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. Then there's always the 'fake' auctions out there that look legit. |
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