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Horrordee
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 Posted: Fri, 7th Oct 2016 21:00 Post subject: Fucking hackers |
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So I've been hacked, and it turns out I'm pretty stupid too.
The other day I got an e-mail from Apple saying there was a sign in from a new device. Damn it, someone got into my iCloud. More annoying was my iCloud contained photos of my passport, driving licence (inc my wifes), AND bills (although not recent bills). Oh, and I assume someone got into my gmail because I had loads of e-mails from shitty sites which contained my password(s) in plain text - ffs. I've deleted them all now.
Needless to say I was annoyed with myself. I changed my Apple password, although haven't turned on two phase authentication as you have to wait 3 days (ffs).
I signed up for a credit monitoring service so that I can see if someone takes out store credit in my name or opens a bank account for identify fraud purposes. So far, nothing like that has happened.
I promptly went about changing my passwords on all sites, as, stupidly, I use the same password for Apple, Google, Facebook, PayPal, etc. Fuck my life. But even more stupid is that my wife uses the SAME password too. Fuck our life.
At this point I am feeling relatively calm - I haven't cancelled all my debit/credit cards but I might do later today ... BECAUSE ... a few days after the incident, I get an e-mail... from Steam - someone is attempting to sign into my account. Luckily I have 2-step authenication and given I had changed my Gmail password I assume they didn't get in.
But here is the thing - my Steam password is NOT the same as Apple - it is however one of the passwords found in plain text in my Gmail account. So I've changed that too now.
Steam gave me the IP - it's from Pakistan but it's a VPN service so no help there.
Any advice from anyone? Is there anything I haven't done which I should do?
So frustrating and weird to know someone got access to all my data, my personal/family photos, etc.
Fuck dat hacker.
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Oct 2016 21:13 Post subject: |
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change everything, use offline password manager (enpass for example) and create secure and different passes for EVERY site. done
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Horrordee
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| Posted: Fri, 7th Oct 2016 21:38 Post subject: |
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Yeh man I've started doing that now. But I have hundreds and hundreds of sites I use.
I cleared all my passwords from my Google account so every time I get asked to sign in, I'll remember to change the password!
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 04:39 Post subject: |
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Another Apple English elitist idiot serves you right.
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 04:58 Post subject: |
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Email is fine, 2-step auth, banking is a pain, but very secure with 3 step auth and via phone. Just changed my Paypal to 2-step and via phone, which is a pain also, but I'd rather be safer 
Steam, well, 2-step auth also, with a pass no one will ever crack, lol 
One can get lazy with anything though, as in the above, which could lead to other avenues for the bastards. It can happen 
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 05:03 Post subject: |
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What's an Apple English elitist idiot? 
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TSR69
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 07:13 Post subject: |
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Any relationship between Apple and low IQ?
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 08:58 Post subject: |
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| TSR69 wrote: | | Any relationship between Apple and low IQ? |
Yes, of course. If you use Apple products you have a low IQ. Clearly.
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HIz
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 09:45 Post subject: |
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Yeah, well, that's just, like, your opinion, man.  |
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Stige
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 09:55 Post subject: |
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| C.MAC wrote: | | TSR69 wrote: | | Any relationship between Apple and low IQ? |
Yes, of course. If you use Apple products you have a low IQ. Clearly. |
I think every non-apple user knows this already lol
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| Posted: Sat, 8th Oct 2016 11:15 Post subject: |
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| Horrordee wrote: | Yeh man I've started doing that now. But I have hundreds and hundreds of sites I use.
I cleared all my passwords from my Google account so every time I get asked to sign in, I'll remember to change the password! |
Do like me: work with a tiered system
level 0 passwords: unique for every site (Paypal, Gmail, Steam, Amazon, ...) - basically sites that have access to payments and can be abused - you got to remember perhaps 5 different passwords but it's pretty important to keep these unique for very obvious reasons.
level 1 passwords: sites without payment info where people can still do wrong (like online file storage, FTP, webemail without payment info): I use a repeating password where two letters are the same letters as the first two letters of the website. For example: nfohump could be nfazerty999 - it keeps every password unique.
level 2 passwords: sites that are of little danger - use a common complex password
level 3 passwords: stuff like forums, sites you had to sign up for but don't use, etc - use an easy "cheap" password that's easy to remember. Who cares if these get hacked ...
Most sites you sign up on will be level 2 or 3 so not a big effort. Level 0 & 1 you better not get compromised so the unique passwords there are pretty important.
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