Have you ever been hacked

I had an old hotmail account that was taken over. Microsoft were useless in getting it sorted, so I moved on. So, I suppose I've been hacked?

Doctors room ghost wrote: »

Have a care would you do that.there was one last year,enter your bank account number here to see have you been hacked.plenty of people caught with it.the Nigerian prince made a few more million that day.

This is legit though, run by a well-respected security researcher using the hacked databases that have been made publicly available. And all you enter is the email address, which is probably already known to many third parties.

Always have 2 factor authentication set up on all of your services.

DubInMeath wrote: »

I'm studying hacking and forensics and just wondering who on here has been hacked.

This could be one of your social media accounts, a device etc.

Have you ever fallen for a phone or email phishing attack?

Did you find the cause for being hacked?

Yes,on a chat site(IRC) years ago, lambasting USA ref Iraq(pints involved) after a few sessions the questions supposedly coming from me weren't,and obviously replies I got were heated no matter what I tried,could see questions as I sat there being typed up,banned,,,in he end up had to reinstall total system,get rid of my Hotmail account,and stayed away from chat sites after Beamish, definitely the good ol' boys hacked me at the time(btw still think USA had/have no right to invade any sovereign state)

My steam got hacked via my email.
They managed to put a password on my spam folder and redirect all emails from steam to spam folder.
Steam was easy to recover, but password on spam folder took a week of emails to support.

I managed to find the hackers Skype and also QIWI account but I think it was all under a fake name since I called him to say I found him and he said that there's nothing I can do and I found posts linked to him posting in hacking forums under 3 different names.

CalamariFritti wrote: »

No, I haven't. Unless it was so good that I didn't even notice. Which is unlikely since I'm as boring as the next guy. And I don't do anything obviously stupid like sending money to my Nigerian 'great great uncle' or installing that great free download tool. And I don't use Windows so all that kind of low key bullsh1t typically passes me.
The closest to a hack I ever came was when money was skimmed of my visa card. Which I got back from the bank. Does that count?

If you have used LinkedIn or a myriad of other websites then you have indeed had login credentials stolen, which is the first step in a hack.

Most banks use third party credit-checking services. One of the largest, Equifax, was recently breached and the financial records of tens of millions of people were stolen.

No. But then ive no presence on social media and my email is so boring it would put any hacker to sleep.

Rubberchikken wrote: »

No. But then ive no presence on social media and my email is so boring it would put any hacker to sleep.

People think it will end with reading emails. That's only the first step. The next is using details gleaned from there to get personal information, then socially engineering their way into getting an electricity bill as proof of address and before long you're dealing with full on identity theft and an empty bank account.

You can read about my experience with Amazon/Amazon Prime here

In a nutshell, somebody got on to my account and, using an email address that wasn't mine, requested the Amazon Prime service. I paid for it by direct debit for three months until a chance perusal of my bank statements revealed it to me.
Amazon responded promptly and told me my bank would reimburse me (they did) but they wouldn't tell me what e-mail address ordered the service, which I find incredibly frustrating.

I also got scammed on ebay. Somebody gained access to my account, sold something and then didn't deliver the goods. I became aware of this when I started getting threatening mails from ebay telling me to deliver the goods and pay my sellers fees or else. My account was then suspended. Many phone calls to various support sites around the world ensued following which they accepted my claim that I had not put anything up for sale, promised to stop sending me threatening mails, and rescind the suspension.

I'm still suspended.

I also don't use Amazon for purchases any more.

So that's two websites that I don't use any more. I don't feel bereft.