Damn it, someone stole my e-mail account.

[Unregistered]

A Turkish stole my e-mail account and change the retrueve password secret question to this :-

en sevdiðin hoca?

Do anyone know the answer?

He had also stolen 2 of my ICQ UINs because he had the passwords retrieved through the hacked account.

Damn it!

 

[mole]

How did he hack your account?

 

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by Unregistered
A Turkish stole my e-mail account and change the retrueve password secret question to this :-

en sevdiðin hoca?

Do anyone know the answer?

Secret question RULE #1:

Your answer SHOULD NEVER be anything relevant or even related to the question!!

 

[.com.net.org]

Originally posted by nameslave

Secret question RULE #1:

Your answer SHOULD NEVER be anything relevant or even related to the question!!

AGREE

 

[dotNetKing]

The secret question and answer seems to be an appalling loophole in security.

Why bother having a secure and hard to discover password if the secret question is the town you were born in!?

 

[mole]

Originally posted by dotNetKing
Why bother having a secure and hard to discover password if the secret question is the town you were born in!?

How did you know???

 

[Anthony Ng]

Some pre-set secret questions ask for e.g. your mother's maiden name, the last 4 number of your social security card or the town where you were born. That's EXACTLY what I meant by my earlier post here: NEVER answer those secret questions with a relevant or even related answer. A better answer for the "town" question would be "London" when you were actually born in "Paris"; but the best answer should be "Coffee".

 

[mole]

Originally posted by nameslave
That's EXACTLY what I meant by my earlier post here: NEVER answer those secret questions with a relevant or even related answer.

What happens if it is so unrelated I forget?

 

[.com.net.org]

Originally posted by mole


What happens if it is so unrelated I forget?

Then you can hire a hacker to hack your email.

 

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by mole


What happens if it is so unrelated I forget?

Just like your passwords, you shouldn't just make up secret questions and answers on the spot. I'm not saying that you can only have ONE such pair, but it may be a good idea to use at most 3-5 sets so you'll know VERY well what they are.

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by Unregistered
A Turkish stole my e-mail account and change the retrueve password secret question to this :-

en sevdiðin hoca?

Do anyone know the answer?

He had also stolen 2 of my ICQ UINs because he had the passwords retrieved through the hacked account.

Damn it!

Was it a paid account (like @aol.com) or free hotmail type ?

 

[Unregistered]

a free account, I was heard that the server got hacked

 

[.com.net.org]

Originally posted by Unregistered
a free account, I was heard that the server got hacked

That's bad.
From now on, use your own domain and create an email.

 

[Domainaholic]

Question: Is the stolen email the admin of any of your domains or domain accounts?
That might be a bigger problem and will need real attention.

 

[Domainaholic]

Originally posted by .com.net.org

From now on, use your own domain and create an email.

Agreed, and it does look more profesional anyway - but has it's own problems and caused many a domain to expire. It's recomended only if the site is active and well taken care of.

Domain email is great - anyone hack into it - you can delete it and recreat it with new passwords

 

[URLtrader]

Originally posted by Unregistered
a free account, I was heard that the server got hacked

That's bad. Remember the saying - "You get what you pay for".

 

[Unregistered]

i got many important mails there, and i cannot get in touch with server admin to reset password for me, damn it!

 

[sumo]

Originally posted by Unregistered
en sevdiðin hoca?

your favorite teacher?

Originally posted by Unregistered
Do anyone know the answer?

try popular turkish names.

 

[Unregistered]

Thanks zeal2

 

[lawpsych]

A couple of months ago, someone from Turkey stole my $6.95 ENOM reseller account, the one I had purchased from Giant Domains. I wonder if this is the same character?

Question for the MODS and for the talented computer geeks in this forum ... Any way to trace this theft?

Perhaps it's the same person. Makes one wonder, that's for sure ...

Sheila