It started when I bought an I-Pad

On a Thursday I bought an I-pad. I was setting it up that night and it asked for my apple ID which I had to reset since I forgot it. Everything was going well until the following Monday when I was notified that someone/thing on a Windows machine was trying to enter my apple account.

They were blocked and I changed my password.

This last Sunday, someone/thing enter into my comcast email account and sent off a ton of emails that had a link in them to a weight loss program (from what I’m told, I didn’t click on it). There was all the emails sent in my sent folder and I had 20 or so return because of in active email addresses.

I changed the password. Deleted the sent and returned fake emails then started looking around in the settings of my comcast account. There was a filter that would trash any email coming in that had “change”, “password” in the subject line. Deleted that.

This morning Google blocked someone trying to enter my Google account.

How the heck are they getting these passwords?! They aren’t easy like names or birthdays…

Yes I’ve changed bank accounts, cards and all the rest that I could think of.
I’m waiting for them to log in here…

You likely declined to purchase some security program so they are exacting their revenge.

The more of this crap you read about the more ya think dumping computers, cell phones, smart everything and going back to the rock ages might be worth it.

1st the SS Minnow
Now a new I-PAD.
If you’re not careful you could have a melt down.

Sorry, can’t be of assitance to your issue or question.

Yeah you sent me this text, via email, Sunday…I just laughed.

(Te(2):Hello, is everything ok?!) hello. I wanna tell you how I slimmed down.
https://search.yahoo.com/search/643044.htm?4572=pgekji&9348=89998&flcfom=29217

Nice boat BTW

Brian Klawitter wrote:

How the heck are they getting these passwords?! They aren’t easy like names or birthdays…

Snakes?

whats an I-pad???????????

jeff_huberty wrote:

Snakes?

Dang it! Now the whole world knows!!

BTW I’m using the I Pad with Navionics for my second form of navigation with the floating camper.

Once they are in your email account, they can just go to those places and request a password reset. They intercept the email before you see it, and change the account password. Pays to stay on top of it the way that you’re doing; probably worth running a security scan to scrub your devices for spyware too.

Thanks Michael.

Michael C. Winther wrote:

Once they are in your email account, they can just go to those places and request a password reset. They intercept the email before you see it, and change the account password. Pays to stay on top of it the way that you’re doing; probably worth running a security scan to scrub your devices for spyware too.

Can you explain how they get into you email account in the first place?

I’m down 10lbs already!

Not working for me. I think I gained 5 lbs just sitting on the couch tonight watching the the food network!

Brian, they get into your google and from there it manifests into everything you have ever searched. you need to cut the head(google) and hope it fixes your situation. I had over $2000 dollars charged in new IPhones a year ago to my mobile account. change that google password multiple times and even the trick question to access the account. Im talking about the ones that ask the name of your first pet…..do not let the answer be a name! my pets name is “why is fall so short”? now that is tough to crack! It’s really not but you get my drift.

Did they send you the email with your password in the subject line saying they have video from your webcam of you watching naughty videos and if you don’t send them $7,000 in bitcoin they will send the video to all your contacts?

eyeguy, lucky for me I don’t have anything set up to pay out of google. I have one account for paying and that’s it.

Yeah, I would like to know how they got any passwords in the first place.
I’m afraid to turn on my pad. Seems like when I do shortly afterwards something gets or someone tries to hack into an account.

BHM I’m guessing you aren’t in my contacts otherwise you would have received it by now. I thought I looked good in the speedo…

It’s new and I took it out of the wrapper.

Cooperman wrote:

Can you explain how they get into you email account in the first place?

Phishing works sometimes…it didn’t have to occur on the new iPad. It could have been through anyone’s account on any shared devices that you use. They’re pretty darn good at it, so sometimes even careful people sometimes get hacked.

I hear that. No one uses my 3 devices and I never use an email to access anything with a PW. I watch for the “S” in the https before logging in to a site.

I don’t unsubscribe to lists. I just mark them as spam.

That’s what I don’t do…there must be something that I did do because there is no way my passwords could randomly be generated.

Just a coincidence this all started right after you bought the Tuna boat right?
You might have hurt the feelings of the camper gods.

I know, not much help.

Ya, you gotta wonder how they do it, I suppose with you it could be blamed on Spam!????

Polak wrote:

Ya, you gotta wonder how they do it, I suppose with you it could be blamed on Spam!????

Now that made me grin.

Same issue this week. My Amazon account was hacked. They changed the password. The new email was from a Russian web provider. Got it all fixed and I used my work computer to do this. They can’t see my credit cards according to Amazon. Never ordered anything or maybe were waiting for me to fix things? I had to go to the secondary verification method where they text you a code. They kept trying to change the password as I would get codes text to me, at all hours of the day, while I was deer hunting. Been quite for several days now. I think they gave up. They got into my FB account and changed the password the same day I noticed the Amazon hack. Now I noticed I can’t get into my Comcast email account. I had my computer shut down all weekend in case they could see my emails. I did a full scan of my computer with Norton internet and found nothing. I never ckick on questionable emails. I think I will deal with the Comcast email issue using my work computer too, if possible.

Check your filters in your comcast account. They added one that would trash any incoming email that has “password” in the subject line.

I’m going to two step verification on any site that will let me.

Ah HAH! The russians!

If someone stole my identity , they would send it back with a condolence message

wkw wrote:

If someone stole my identity , they would send it back with a condolence message

…and a donation?

Typically to change a password, there is a security question, such as your first grade teachers name… mothers maiden name… how do they know that stuff ?

Well with comcast, the password wasn’t changed. The logged into my account and did there thing.

The question on one of the accounts was “Where did you go on your honeymoon”.
Hell, I don’t even know there that was!!