Ladies and gentlemen of Sig Forum, my email was hacked this morning at somewhere around 8am EST. I believe the problem was resolved as of 11:15 am EST. If you have had any correspondence with me in the last several weeks this is just a heads up. Please do not hesitate to post in this thread if you think you've received a bogus email from me.

So you are not a Lieutenant serving in Iraq since the Gulf War and needing my help to ship 437lbs of gold, and your not going to pay me the $100 million dollars USA American?

Well, shit.

I guess I'll mow my own yard.


"HEY! KID!!! DEAL'S OFF! GET OFF MY LAWN!!!"

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Originally posted by sigmonkey:
So you are not a Lieutenant serving in Iraq since the Gulf War and needing my help to ship 437lbs of gold, and your not going to pay me the $100 million dollars USA American?

Dang it Monkey that was just between us!

Sadly no I do not have 473lbs of gold

No larger penis either? What about sexy local singles looking to hook up?
(the one would have really helped with the other)

How do we know that it's really you posting?

Mine was hacked also. Somewhere in North Carolina.
I have tried changing passwords and it still hasn't helped. About the only thing I can do is shut it down if I want to resolve this. Very frustrating.

V-tail well I guess that is a good question.

SigMonkey make be able to verify. He helped me out with another computer problem last year.

How do you know your email was hacked? what were the symptoms?

Mine got hacked too, someone sent a Viagra ad to 499 people

it can't be That bad, at least you don't have a grinch in your avatar

Was your password "Password"?

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Mine got hacked too, someone sent a Viagra ad to 499 people

I'm not doubting you at all, but I am curious: how do you know it was 499?

Was your email really hacked, i.e. did the bastages actually get into your account? It's easy enough to spoof the return address (sender's address) without hacking the account. Much easier. If they're selling Viagra, there's really no point to hacking your account, they just want a legitimate looking return address, ¿si?

Mine is being "ghosted" as the term used by the IT guys.
Sending emails about everything from Viagra to dating Russian women.
I get the emails sent to me and can't block them because they were sent from my email address.
No information stolen, it's just being used to send mass emails.
I have 2 transactions going on right now and will likely shut down my account afterwards.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:

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Originally posted by Rightwire:
Mine got hacked too, someone sent a Viagra ad to 499 people

I'm not doubting you at all, but I am curious: how do you know it was 499?

Was your email really hacked, i.e. did the bastages actually get into your account? It's easy enough to spoof the return address (sender's address) without hacking the account. Much easier. If they're selling Viagra, there's really no point to hacking your account, they just want a legitimate looking return address, ¿si?

The email was in my SENT box, and it showed 499 recipients.

I knew something was wrong when I suddenly started getting RETURNMAILER notifications, followed shortly after by a TOS violation email from the service provider.

I've used FastMail.com for my email service since 2001. I've never been hacked. 100% satisfied with it. Superb spam filtering too. I have the $20/yr option, but there's a free option too, if you want to try it. You can upgrade later if you choose to do so. You can choose IMAP or POP3 download protocol. I use POP3 for my laptop. On my iPhone I use FastMail's excellent mobile web interface – almost like a client app.

This post caused me to spend about 45 minutes looking in to the security of Apple email vs. other products e.g. ProtonMail that uses OpenPGP encryption.

I came across this article Link which compares S/MIME used in Apple Mail vs Open PGP, and concludes that S/MIME is simpler and probably more secure because easier to use.

You can also read Apple's privacy statement here. Link

I would be interested in others' opinions, of course, but right now I feel quite comfortable with both Apple e-mail and with iCloud security.

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Originally posted by Rey HRH:
How do you know your email was hacked? what were the symptoms?

I got and email notification that a secondary email on my account had a password changed. When tried to log in to verify if the email was a hoax or real I could not log in. Called tech and they said password was changed. The hackers changed the main after the secondary.

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Originally posted by 911Boss:
Was your password "Password"?

NOPE! It was a complex one.

OK, this one has been around for a while, but this seems like the perfect time to resurrect it:

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Today I opened a new email account, I always use the same password: "cabbage". It's easy to remember. But it seems the computer had other plans.

Please enter your new password:

"cabbage"

Sorry, the password must be more than 8 characters.

"boiled cabbage"

Sorry, the password must contain 1 numerical character.

"1 boiled cabbage"

Sorry, the password cannot have blank spaces.

"50bloodyboiledcabbages"

Sorry, the password must contain at least one upper case character.

"50BLOODYboiledcabbages"

Sorry, the password cannot use more than one upper case character consecutively.

"50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourArse,IfYouDon'tGiveMeAccessnow”

Sorry, the password cannot contain punctuation.

“ReallyPissedOff50BloodyBoiledCabbagesShovedUpYourArseIfYouDontGiveMeAccessnow”

Sorry, that password is already in use.