Ack! My AOL password was stolen and...

[estevie]

hundreds of porn emails were sent out! Ack!!!

So, I call this morning because my password is no longer valid. They tell me the news and then ask if it was me. Huh? Yes, it was me, I stayed up all night sending porn emails to hundreds of strangers, I'd like you to re-activate my account so I can send out some more! Duh!

How does this happen? How does someone get a password? While I might visit a porn site now and again *innocent look* I don't sign up for stuff. Can someone explain this to me?

 

[christophe]

main reason i ditched AOhell a long time ago!

 

[*bratcat*]

 

[christophe]

there is the kettel calling the pot black!

 

[LadyG]

I'm hurt. Very very hurt. I didn't receive even ONE porn email from you.

HMPH!

**walks away shaking head, hurt and scarred for life**

 

[Debbie]

I don't know how they do it.
I knew someone who had their email address hacked, and emails were sent to people (including his fiance at the time, discussing his many infidelities ) and he claimed his ICQ and other IM's were hacked also.


Makes you feel a little bit insecure. (Understatement)

Hopefully somebody will be able to tell us how we can prevent being hacked, apart from having a good firewall.

Can AOL check the hackers ISP?


Sorry it happened to you.

 

[estevie]

main reason i ditched AOhell a long time ago!

This is the first time I've had problems with AOL since I've been online.

Is AOL the only one this happens to? Is Earthlink or mindspring or any of the multitude of others any different really?

And good morning!

 

[Debbie]

I typed hacked on AOL into google and a lot of threads have come back!
Here is the page of search results

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=hacked+at+AOL

But this thread might be of interest to you.


How I got hacked on AOL

http://news.com.com/2100-1023-211631.html?legacy=cnet
Snippet,"Since the ACLU hacking, AOL has sought repeatedly to comfort its members and the financial community about its commitment to stronger security. But the fact remains that passwords have been disclosed without account confirmation. In my case, it happened through a combination of persistence by PhatEndo and apparent carelessness in the ranks of AOL's army of service reps.

What happened to me seems to have been the result of a "social engineering" hack--a breach in security that stems not from technology, but rather from human foible.

If a hacker is lucky enough to call a service rep who doesn't do a thorough ID check, the password can be reset to give the perpetrator full access to your AOL account and everything that comes with it."

 

[christophe]

When i had AOL i found it was very incompatible with some programs and left many programing remnants on my disk...i never actually used it to surf the web . I always used IE it was much easier to clear my cache and edit the history! so i used it for mail and that was it...no i use cable and a yahoo mail box...but you knoew the yahoo addy already!

 

[Velius]

AOL is completely un secured. There are so many cracks for it it is not even funny. You shouldn't have any problems with Earthlink or the others, and you will probably have a better time of it (AOL leeches your bandwidth). Get a real ISP.

 

[LadyG]

Oh that's comforting. I have heard of lots of people having trouble with AOL though.

 

[estevie]

You visit porn sites???

All along I had the wrong ideas about you...you....you...you pervert!

Heh!

Actually, I'm not the porn lookeratter of the family. I prefer my porn in the written form.

But, just yesterday I believe my 11yo tried to access some porn. He was home sick for most of the day by himself. Well, I came home and hopped on puter only to find a "free sex shows" icon on my desktop. Methinks he tried with no sucess. *shaking head* Damn kids!!

Heh! I love parental controls.

 

[Velius]

He was probably trying to get games or something, and he could have come across that anywhere. There are a multitude of sites that download those things as soon as you load the page.

 

[christophe]

Heh!

Actually, I'm not the porn lookeratter of the family. I prefer my porn in the written form.

But, just yesterday I believe my 11yo tried to access some porn. He was home sick for most of the day by himself. Well, I came home and hopped on puter only to find a "free sex shows" icon on my desktop. Methinks he tried with no sucess. *shaking head* Damn kids!!

Heh! I love parental controls.

scary thought i guess i will have to put some controls on my puter as well......or just get my kid his own computer and do it that way!

 

[estevie]

Thanks, Deb!!! I'm going to do some major reading on this issue. All help and or links is greatly appreciated!

This sucks, makes me feel...unsafe. I hate to think 100's of people got this shit from me...well, not me but my name!!!

I'm going to make some changes today!!!

 

[estevie]

scary thought i guess i will have to put some controls on my puter as well......or just get my kid his own computer and do it that way!

Ya know, I just thought of something. He must have been on my screen name. His wouldn't even allow him to get to where he could download something like that. Crafty lil' bastard. But, never again. Wait till he gets home...Oooo, is he in trouble!

 

[Debbie]

He was probably trying to get games or something, and he could have come across that anywhere. There are a multitude of sites that download those things as soon as you load the page.

Yes!!! This happened to my kids. On different occassions.

Heh!

Actually, I'm not the porn lookeratter of the family. I prefer my porn in the written form.

But, just yesterday I believe my 11yo tried to access some porn. He was home sick for most of the day by himself. Well, I came home and hopped on puter only to find a "free sex shows" icon on my desktop. Methinks he tried with no sucess. *shaking head* Damn kids!!

Heh! I love parental controls.

My oldest had this happen too, but the porn turned out to be stuff that was downloading itself through Kazaa and Morpheus.
Also when he was downloading dragonballZ pics, there was other stuff imbedded in the images.

Just a small example of what I mean,

http://www.freelists.org/archives/cybercrime-alerts/08-2002/fullthread26.html

I was there when he was surfing and it happened, otherwise I would have said you cut that out right now.

You are welcome estevie.

 

[GuyJD]

They do it often on AOL, hotmail, and Yahoo. But more on AOL than anything else.

I used to have a 2 for 1 deal with AOL & CompuServe but the same thing started happening to me. So I killed my AOL account and stayed with CS. The funny thing is that they are the same companies but I've never had that happen to me on CS [knock on wood].

 

[SadnonMage]

Hacked on AOL

Thanks, Deb!!! I'm going to do some major reading on this issue. All help and or links is greatly appreciated!

This sucks, makes me feel...unsafe. I hate to think 100's of people got this shit from me...well, not me but my name!!!

I'm going to make some changes today!!!

This happened to me once in the 4+years I have been on AOL.
If I remember right there was a flaw in early versions of 7.0 that alllowed back doors to be open, even with a firewall. I would say update your release of 7.0 which is what I did.

2 hours on the phone with AOL to clear this up too, the hacker in my case sent out over 20,000 emails from my S/N e-mail addy.
took me an hour or so to delete them from my sent mail screen, hold down the delete key, hehe.

 

[JerseyBoy]

How does this happen? How does someone get a password? While I might visit a porn site now and again *innocent look* I don't sign up for stuff. Can someone explain this to me?

stop using qwerty as your password!

p.s. please check for viruses and key loggers with the latest norton or macafee. Someone might be standing at your backdoor right this minute

 

[estevie]

Re: Re: Ack! My AOL password was stolen and...

stop using qwerty as your password!

p.s. please check for viruses and key loggers with the latest norton or macafee. Someone might be standing at your backdoor right this minute

I'm doing a virus update as we speak!

 

[bknight2602]

Unfortunatley for every safeguard there is a way around it. This is one of the prices we pay to freedoms, if only we could get the hackers on board!

 

[JerseyBoy]

Unfortunatley for every safeguard there is a way around it. This is one of the prices we pay to freedoms, if only we could get the hackers on board!

no there is not, but the person with his doors left open while on vacation is more likely to be robbed than one with an alarm system...in other words, why screw around with someone with a firewall and zonealarm when so many dont use anything...

 

[clit_licker30]

It is time to grow up and move away from awohhell.

 

[estevie]

After doing some reading on this, I find I don't have shit for security set up on here! What an idiot I am!!!

I guess I just thought, what would hackers want with the shit I got on this computer? Duh! They don't want my stuff! LOL! They just want to steal my name!!!!

I'm having a most enlightening morning!