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  • #1

    Hacked

    I'm not quite sure where this goes but I am livid. I was watching some tv when a friend of mine called and asked me if I was in london. I was like what?? Some jerk hacked my facebook account and was asking all my friends for $920!

    I got onto my computer and I could see all the crap the jerk was typing! I had to text everybody and let them know it wasn't me. Now my account is gone and the jerk got away with it. Though I did let the jerk know that hey: I CAN SEE YOU! And then he or she announced that they could see me too and this means war.

    Long story short, my account is gone and I'm angry that I was hacked by some ass who talked like a kid. My sister caught on and started to insult them and got a "Your mama" and I laughed because we have the same mother... So BUSTED.

    But yes, I don't know where this belongs but I am mad that I got hacked.
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    Please tell me you don't use same password everywhere or easy to guess ones?
    Sadly I would throw facebook into one of the places where it imporant to have a good password because people like to mess with it.

    It could be someone you know that mad at you. My one ex loved to use Tennis in passwords.

    I love keypass portable, haha got the military strength ones saved and protected by easy to remember one. Yeah im sure someone could get database file and crack it but, I'm not really worried.
    I'm sorry reading is not a new concept it has been widely taught in our nation for at least the past 100 years. Please, learn to do it CORRECTLY before you become contagious.

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    • #3
      My guess is that it's some 12 year old from an imageboard website doing it for sh**s and giggles. Facebook is a favourite target for that sort of thing. I would definately seriously consider changing passwords around the place.

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      • #4
        People used to forget to log out of facebook in my university library and I'd always change their status to something like "Dave: shouldn't have left his facebook open in the library" before signing them out. I never did anything else though. i thought it would be too mean.

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        • #5
          Quoth jjllbb View Post
          People used to forget to log out of facebook in my university library and I'd always change their status to something like "Dave: shouldn't have left his facebook open in the library" before signing them out. I never did anything else though. i thought it would be too mean.
          when I worked in the computer lab at school and if someone I knew forgot to logout, they would make some wierd posts on our message board system at the time.....We had terminals and turning off the terminal didn't log you out. Of course, some people didn't even bother to turn off the terminals.

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          • #6
            Yes, I was the idiot who used a simple password. I just never thought anybody would care enough to do that.... From now on I'm going to have crazy assed long ones but I don't think I will make another account...

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            • #7
              I actually read about this scam awhile back. Sadly, it's a pretty common scam because Facebook is appearantly pretty easy to hack into.

              http://redtape.msnbc.com/2009/01/post-1.html

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              • #8
                My one friend was getting hacked quite frequently for awhile, and someone was using her account to send out links that I'm guessing were malware. I wasn't going to click on one and find out, but I did advise her to change her password. Turned out she already had, several times, so apparently she had a trojan or something on her computer.

                Just a week or so, someone apparently got into mine, and my password isn't something you'd find in any dictionary. It showed a page saying that my account had been accessed from unfamiliar locations, and then showed me two locations and times that it was questioning. I wasn't sure about the locations, because these IP locators seem to be hit and miss, but the times that I supposedly logged in were when I was at work. As far as I know, whoever hacked in didn't get a chance to do anything with it, or I'm sure I would have heard something.
                Sometimes life is altered.
                Break from the ropes your hands are tied.
                Uneasy with confrontation.
                Won't turn out right. Can't turn out right

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                • #9
                  You don't need a LONG password, just one that's not a Word or something in a dictionary. (dictionary attack)
                  Or a combination of only numbers. (brute force attack)

                  One trick is to think of your favorite song. Now put the first letters of the title together:
                  MHALL (mary had a little lamb)
                  Now add a number or 2
                  1MHALL3
                  And change that A to a 4 - hall is a word

                  1MH4LL3

                  Just don't hum when you type :P

                  Cutenoob

                  You can use guns n roses if you want. I also use phrases from life, like FOYSOB. *guess* but add numbers!
                  In my heart, in my soul, I'm a woman for rock & roll.
                  She's as fast as slugs on barbituates.

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                  • #10
                    Quoth Cutenoob View Post
                    You can use guns n roses if you want. I also use phrases from life, like FOYSOB. *guess* but add numbers!

                    G N R!!! Squeee


                    FOYSOB...<snicker> Was ready to say that to my CWs today, especially after I saw the mess they left for me to clean up....

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                    • #11
                      Quoth Cutenoob View Post
                      You don't need a LONG password, just one that's not a Word or something in a dictionary. (dictionary attack)
                      Or a combination of only numbers. (brute force attack)
                      My personal favorite method: I pick a book at random. Really doesn't matter which one. The initials of the title become the beginning, and I'm picky about the case: My Book of Foo becomes MBoF.

                      Part two is a random page. So, now my password is "MBoF12". This gets followed up by the first character of each line until I get to however many characters I want (8 or 10 or 12, usually), also still case sensitive. Now my password has become "MBoF12Iccr".

                      If you can guess that password, well, you've earned the access, I think.

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                      • #12
                        Quoth Cutenoob View Post
                        You can use guns n roses if you want. I also use phrases from life, like FOYSOB. *guess* but add numbers!
                        Haha! I love that, a great detailed explanation about how to make a password that's nonsense but still memorable, and then "you can use GNR if you want!"

                        I will totally keep GNR in mind next time I need to make a password. I need to go listen to "Don't Cry" now..

                        "When your deepest thoughts are broken, keep on dreaming, boy; when you stop dreaming it's time to die" -- Blind Melon

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                        • #13
                          There's been a lot of this going on - you should be able to contact Facebook to get your account back.,
                          Quote Dalesys:
                          ... as in "Ifn thet dawg comes at me, Ima gonna shutz ma panz!"

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                          • #14
                            From Home Improvement regarding home security systems:

                            Al: *gives suggestions on how to come up with a good password* (forget exact quote)

                            Tim: I just came up with a GREAT password, saber saw!

                            Al: That's great, Tim. Now maybe you might want to think of a password that everyone in our viewing audience now doesn't know.

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                            • #15
                              Quoth Lindsey View Post
                              Haha! I love that, a great detailed explanation about how to make a password that's nonsense but still memorable, and then "you can use GNR if you want!"

                              I will totally keep GNR in mind next time I need to make a password. I need to go listen to "Don't Cry" now..
                              Well, was thinking more of a longer title - Welcome To The Jungle
                              In my heart, in my soul, I'm a woman for rock & roll.
                              She's as fast as slugs on barbituates.

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