Warning - My account was hacked today.

[jase71]

Just a warning.

My paypal and Hotmail accounts were hacked today. Someone attempted to sign on, and send themselves $3500 in a variety of transactions.

As of today, an email from [email protected] is NOT from me, and should be ignored or reported.

I'm not currently working on any deals with anyone, so if you get an email from [email protected], it's not from me!

Thanks. :(

[sbp]

fscking thieves.

[NuTs62]

are you being held liable, or is there something that protects ya from it?

[jase71]

Originally posted by NuTs62
are you being held liable, or is there something that protects ya from it?

They tried two transactions. One on a credit card for $2000, and one from my checking for $1500.

The credit card transaction was denied, because I use a small, low balance card (for exactly this reason) for paypal and web orders. Had he been a little less greedy, he might have gotten something.

The Checking transfer would have gone through... and started to. But I noticed it in time, and put a stop on my account at my credit union, and also contacted Paypal to have it cancelled/reversed.

At this point, it doesn't look like it'll cost me anything.

I'd probably have been ok with the credit card... they'd cover me except for a small portion.

I'd have taken it in the shorts on the Checking account transfer if I hadn't noticed it. No protection there. As soon as this is all cleared up, I'm closing down the paypal account. I guess I'll give up selling and trading online, at least if it involves money transfers.

Guess I can count my blessings that I caught it in time...

[Talk2raffi]

Were your hotmail and paypal passwords the same?

My paypal password is a real random string of numbers and letters...someone would have to actually hack paypal to get it...

good luck

[jase71]

Yep. They were the same. The accounts were several years old, and still had the original passwords from way back before I was a paranoid person.

My newer accounts all use better, more difficult passwords... I just neglected those because I'd had them so long.

Live and learn. They're different now, and much more cryptic.

[Jeffbx]

/me runs to change my paypal password....

[ribitch]

That sucks man. I had somebody get my creditcard number before,and they ordered some crap online. It was only 30 bucks worth of stuff, but I hgad to fill out paperwork for citibank, and wait seemingly forever to get the money recreditted to my account, as well as getting a whole new card. Just a royal PITA.

[Ladogaboy]

Too bad we couldn't track them down... :hehehmm:

[Markel]

Originally posted by ribitch
That sucks man. I had somebody get my creditcard number before,and they ordered some crap online. It was only 30 bucks worth of stuff, but I hgad to fill out paperwork for citibank, and wait seemingly forever to get the money recreditted to my account, as well as getting a whole new card. Just a royal PITA.
At least when someone got my citibank number, they had the decency to order several thousand dollars of stuff and make my trouble worthwhile. :hehehmm: