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Underage_Thinker
August 3rd, 2008, 12:40 PM
Well Today i come to log onto my email only to find that my password has been mysteriously changed. So after fking with that i get my password reset, only to find that my facbook password has been reset(via email) and subsequently change. Now i haven't even checked the dozens of forums that im subscribed to via this email, and since my paypal and ebay accounts are still secure(i got the keychain), i really just want to know how they got it. I really doubt they managed to phish it outa me(i like to think i wouldn't fall for that sorta thing) , which leaves two other options that i can think of, they either have a keylogger on my comp, or some database somewhere has been compromised.

Jesse
August 3rd, 2008, 02:26 PM
I seriously doubt that your email provider's server got hacked (I'm assuming that's what you mean by "Database"). It's wayyy more likely that you have some form of spyware (Like a keylogger), or your account was brute-force hacked.

Also, do you have your browser store your passwords for you? Some forms of spyware will grab all your stored passwords and email addresses, and send it back to the maker of that spyware.