Re: Is my hotmail account hacked?
From: *Vanguard* (no-email_at_post-reply-in-newsgroup.invalid)
Date: 04/09/04
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Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2004 13:57:23 -0500
"ds" said in news:1a86e01c41e4e$86996a20$a301280a@phx.gbl:
> I would like to know whether there is a way to check if
> your hotmail account is hacked. Something like the last
> access time to the account or others.
>
> Thanks a lot.
> ds
Stop wasting your time on fruitless endeavors. So what are you going to
do if you find it got hacked? Do you think you'll really discover who
hacked it? Do you really care? And what are you going to do to the
hacker if you ever found out who it was? Stop stroking your ego over
what you might do but know you won't. If it was hacked, you wouldn't be
asking about how to find out. Instead you would be complaining that the
password got changed so you can no longer login and the profile got
changed so you cannot use the Forget Password to get back in. If you
can still login, just change your password and your profile info on a
regular basis (so any potential hacker can't use the Forgot Password
bypass).
Also, time to be looking to yourself as the problem. Have you ran
Ad-Aware and Spybot to find out if you have any keyloggers installed and
so YOU are reporting to the hackers your keystrokes? Do you use public
computers and do NOT bother to check the option regarding such (so a
cookie will NOT be saved on that computer which allows relogin without
username and password)? Have you set the logon interval for the account
to its lowest value (2 hours)? Because of keyloggers, screen scrapers,
and other spyware (some legit, some not) when using public computers,
why are you using your prime e-mail account on them instead of using an
even more disposable one? Or using an alias to it (see Sneakemail for
info)? Do you go leaving sticky notes on your monitor, under your
keyboard, or in some note files (on a physically insecure computer using
a non-secure OS) that anyone can get at instead of recording esoteric
hints for them? Hackers rely on users being sloppy. Leaving their
Windows session logged in when they walk away or unlocked, using screen
savers or Standby mode that aren't password protected, bypassing OS
security by defaulting to using the same account on startup so username
and password do not need to be entered, leaving cookies on other
computers, leaving passwords on notes (paper or in files), using the
same password for different domains, services, and hosts, and never ever
changing their passwords.
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