Both my email and Facebook accounts got hacked this past weekend while we were in Chelan. Did this annoyance have something to do with the unsecured hotel internet connection? I'll never know. I've no idea how hackers do their bad deeds in the first place. I only know they create havoc, a sense of dis-ease and concern over what else they might have accessed while they were busy creating bogus emails and sending them to everyone in my address book.Sigh.
Fortunately, I was tipped off by a friend who received the
"click here and make an easy buck" email that went out under my name within an hour and I was able to change my password. All back to normal? Hopefully.
Hackers and their nasty work piss me off.
What surprised me, however, was the unexpected benefit that came of this mess.. I received emails from three people I hadn't heard from in a long, long time who wanted to let me know that my account had been hacked. But that wasn't all; their messages contained personal messages and an update on their "news". Nice to hear from these folks even if it took scammers to bring us back in touch. Who would have thought?
Good to hear from y'all again; P, P, and S!
Now, NO MORE HACKERS. Be gone you turds.
I had this happen to me recently - it was a day after I got into an ill-advised (wine fueled) email back-and-forth with a rather outspoken conservative pundit. Do I think that had anything to do with it? Not sure, but it was the only unusual internet activity I had at the time.
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