Hacked Computer

[Foggy]

I am enquiring as to whether any other members have been hacked recently. Over the past week my email, pokerstars account, facebook and paypal accounts have all been hacked.Today I have been contacted by another APAT member who also suffered the same situation,and mentioned that a further APAT member has suffered. In fact a false transaction has taken place on Paypal between us, this account has not been in action for the past 5 years.

On advice I have run several scans and found a worm on my system, this being " btmail(1)gen."

Has anyone suffered?

Please post on here and hopefully we shall be able to find the hacker

Foggy

[duke3016]

Seems to be very prevalent in a small community Chris, if the fecker is ever found he/she will have no place to hide - advice is run advanced scan NOW.

[TightEnd]

I was, facebook and one email account. No problems anywhere else.

Scans found a programme I deleted. Believe it emanated from facebook

Have changed passwords, security settings everywhere and substantially stopped using the PC where there was a problem

Claw75 (Claire MacGregor) and Fandango (Carl Pilgrim) also affected. Claw has IP info

[duke3016]

two step security on gMail
Facebook set to https (password changed periodically as well)
All poker sites passwords changed periodically

This Internet thing is so flakey

[fandango]

Yeah my Facebook, email, paypal, Pokerstars and my barclaycard all hacked. Kudos to barclaycard who rang me to tell me of suspicious transactions.. Paypal contacted me about transaction which was to a fellow APAT member. Also my Facebook was logged into from an IP address in Stoke on Trent, contacted Pokerstars but not been contacted yet so don"t know if account has been cleared out? Was playing on there last night till 11 pm so will have to check to see if any thing occured after then.. Some tossers out there who need their ******** wired up to the mains!!!

[George2Loose]

Happened to me too

[TheSnapper]

Some useful info here

Edit: Just dawned on me that a link to someplace unknown may seem kinda scary to people given the increased security awareness at this time

That link is to > http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/48/computer-technical-help/computer-security-poker-players-videos-659775/

[Cyntaf]

Some weird things going on , on my pc and running slow.
Had to input some passwords twice(not a good sign).
Haven"t noticed any monies gone missing, though i have suspected certain times that my hole cards were known although this was in the past on an older pc???

[Des]

Can Claire pm me the IP and I will check to see whether it has ever been used on our forum.  

[Claw75]

PMing now Des.  then will post more

[HOLDorFOLD]

Some weird things going on , on my pc and running slow.
Had to input some passwords twice(not a good sign).
Haven"t noticed any monies gone missing, though i have suspected certain times that my hole cards were known although this was in the past on an older pc???

THIS

On facebook recently it has been prompting to re-input password although i KNOW I have been inputting it correctly first time round.

I"ve been using the https secure browsing for the last few weeks, and have text code verification set up on gmail. Also only have one dedicated email now for just facebook alone.

Bank account was suspended twice around July/August time due to withdrawal attempts, ex husbands was suspended at the same time ... thought it eminated from his side but now wondering if it was a poker related thing because he too was on stars at same time.

[Claw75]

First realised I"d been hacked just after midday yesterday.  Tried to log into facebook and got a message popping up saying my password had been changed a few minutes previously.  I requested a password change thingy to be sent to my email addy, then tried to log into my email account.  password there had also been changed, so i reset using security question.  While I was on there I received an email purporting to be from pokerstars security saying that they believed my account had been hacked.  They said that my account had been frozen pending me sending them my card number, security code and expiry date.  hmmm.

obv didn"t send the info.  I received a few more emails from "pokerstars" over the next hour or so, all trying to get details.  I then emailed pokerstars direct telling them what had happened and they arranged for someone to call me back last night.  They"re currently looking into the activity that has taken place.

Whilst I was logged on to my email I noticed several times that the account was also being used in another location, which showed the ip address I have PMd to Des.  Pokerstars also confirmed that was the IP address that had been playing on my stars account.

For a few hours I had to change my facebook and email passwords several times as they kept getting changed by the hacker.  I also did this from a third party computer, but it didn"t seem to help.  In fact after that, the hacker even  had the bare faced cheek to log into my facebook account and update my status for me.

It appears they also tried to log in to my paypal account.  fortunately i"ve not used it for ages so all payment details etc on there are out of date.

I"ve not suffered any real financial loss - i only had a few dollars in stars and they didn"t get hold of my bank/card details.  however the whole thing was really inconvenient, and it made me feel sick knowing that someone had access to my personal emails and facebook messages etc.

I"ve spoken to someone else not mentioned here today who is also a member of the poker community.  she experienced similar a couple of weeks ago and, similar to what happened between foggy and carl, a paypal payment was made to an account of someone known to us who said that his email had also been hacked, but that he had not experienced any other problems.

[duke3016]

Advanced scan on all internal and external drives took 4 hours and looks clean, however, compacent I will not be cos this stinks....

[Des]

PMing now Des.  then will post more

Thanks Claire. Have checked and that IP is not showing as ever having been used on APAT. The whole hacking thing is very worrying. Will be checking my computers later too although not seen any evidence of wrongdoing.

[Paulie_D]

It also goes without saying^* that if you"re using Internet Exploder Explorer...you should switch to a much more secure browwer.

^{*Saying in anyway}.