Hacked Computer

[Matt D]

Just been alerted to this thread.

I had my msn and xboxlive accounts hacked a week ago, on a day that I posted on facebook I was away for the day in Birmingham. The xboxlive account hacker spent £20 on Fifa2012 downloadable content.

Last night, I posted on facebook that I was away for the evening, "playing poker with some n00bs" at a friends house. This morning I find someone tried to hack my iTunes account last night.

Worrying.

[fandango]

Sigh had to change my email password four times already today!!! *******s are still at it,, just checked my email they put an order for 3x $100 UKash with e-currency exchange store think this is poker related?  Hope you guys don"t have to go through this crap it"s soooooo tilting!!

[Des]

Hi Carl - The IP you forwarded me isn"t showing as used in forum records either.  Personally I"m going to sign out of all of my auto login accounts, do a thorough computer clean and log back in. How is this thing being transferred on Facebook?  Are people clicking links?  Is there a common link.

[duke3016]

Hi Carl - The IP you forwarded me isn"t showing as used in forum records either.  Personally I"m going to sign out of all of my auto login accounts, do a thorough computer clean and log back in. How is this thing being transferred on Facebook?  Are people clicking links?  Is there a common link.

obviously a click on a post from a "bogus" mate - this then perpetuates a chain reaction - so everyone chnage your passwords - and seriously change them periodically

[gerry5421]

Reading up a bit about this tonight opinion seems to be that its the email accounts originally hacked and then gained access to poker accounts via re-sets .reminders etc , is there a commmon email service amongst the people that have been hacked?

I have had no problems so far but decided to do a full adavnced scan after reading this thread its been going for four hours and still a while to go so will see.

Have to admit i am the worse for using auto log ins and not changing password for convinience , , but think i may be changing that after reading this thread

[Claw75]

Hi Carl - The IP you forwarded me isn"t showing as used in forum records either.  Personally I"m going to sign out of all of my auto login accounts, do a thorough computer clean and log back in. How is this thing being transferred on Facebook?  Are people clicking links?  Is there a common link.

I"ve no idea. I"m usually really good about not clicking dodgy links etc, and can"t remember clicking anything yesterday.  

[duke3016]

Problem is you see a funny post you click - no blame attached for doing so the feckers are clever

[Foggy]

I can advise that my email account is with BT. Also even though I pay £50 odd pounds per year to Norton 360, their scan found nothing, apart from tracking cookies. It was when I did a full scan in SAFE MODE that the worm was revealed

[ForthThistle]

whats the best software to use to scan your PC.

[duke3016]

whats the best software to use to scan your PC.

Hitman Pro in my opinion

[ForthThistle]

Scanning now.

Thanks Ger.

[Claw75]

other steps people might want to take (they all sound pretty obvious in hindsight but wouldn"t have occurred to me before yesterday).  create a new email address for facebook use only - that way if anyone does get hold of it it won"t link them to anything else useful).  for anything important (paypal, poker sites etc) use a gmail address with 2 step verification set up so that you can only log into your account using a code sent to your phone.  Similar can be done on facebook.

[George2Loose]

And again. Facebook hacked at 9.24am this morning. Seems to be happening from Poland

[Claw75]

And again. Facebook hacked at 9.24am this morning. Seems to be happening from Poland

did you set up login approval George?  just wondering if they can bypass that.

[Waz1892]

Full scan done ( I do it everymonth) and look fine. Security is with mcavee, renewed at £41.40.

Without sounding stupid- gmail- googlemail?

So it is Facebook that is the issue? On the https.
Email? Yahoo - don"t change password.
Internet-I do use IE.