hacked interview questions
Top hacked frequently asked interview questions
Gmail just alerted me that my Gmail account was accessed from this IP address "70.37.102.156" and that leads to Redmond, Washington, USA and the ISP (owner) is Microsoft.
How can this happen? It's really weird.
Source: (StackOverflow)
Someone is sending spam messages from my account in Facebook. How do I get back control of it?
Source: (StackOverflow)
I had a gmail account and someone accessed it by changing my password. I am extremely angry about this. I changed my password and they accessed it again and changed it once more. I think she was able to reset my password by selecting that she no longer had access to the previous password and secondary email.
I have had a text message from this person who claims she has copies of all the email messages that were in there. Because she accessed it a second time, I have since cancelled the account all together. What can be done about this?
Source: (StackOverflow)
It could be just coincidence, but in the week that my wife complains that her account has been 'hacked', I receive dodgy emails from most of the people I know who still use Yahoo accounts.
When my wife received reports from her contacts that they had received a dodgy spam email from her account, she logged in to check (she only uses the webmail interface). In her outbox, were two of the spam emails, but curiously they were marked as being sent to 'Recipients Unavailable' (or similar phrase). In my experience, whether you send emails to one person, several or a distribution list full of people, it will record this fact and allow you to view the details in your Outbox later.
When she raised this with me, I noticed that I'd had spam mails from a number of friends and family - all of whom were using Yahoo. I assume a similar thing has happened to them.
As far as we can tell, my wife's PC is clean, and she's changed the password to something else. But the fact that the recipients to these emails suggest that these emails originated from her (not-infected PC) nor from somebody/thing accessing her webmail directly, but from a third-party that either knew her credentials, or didn't need credentials.
Given that everyone I know with yahoo (that is, anyone who has one of my email addresses stored in their yahoo account) seems to be similarly affected, I assume it would be a big issue - but after googling, I've found no mention of any Yahoo problems beyond the usual ones.
Can anyone offer any insight?
Source: (StackOverflow)
According to Facebook,
If you believe your account has been compromised by another person or a virus, please click the "My Account Is Compromised" button below. We'll help you log back into your account so that you can regain control.
References:
Question: When an account is reported as being compromised or hacked, what happens to the account? Is the account or any of its content deleted? I cannot seem to find much on what goes on past the "I'm sure I want to proceed with recovery and reporting this account as compromised." What happens next?
Source: (StackOverflow)
My contacts have recently been receiving spam emails from my Gmail address. I am quite certain it is my Gmail contacts (one address is a craigslist response address that I once used). So it would appear my contact list has been accessed in some way.
But I am also fairly certain that the emails are not originating from my Gmail account. I've written an SMTP client, so I know how easy it is to spoof the "from" address, and my Spam folder has several bounces of emails that were "from" me, but were not sent using a Gmail server.
There have been no recent unusual accesses to my account, according to the lists Google provides.
I recently changed my password to something I believe to be quite secure (in response to the heartbleed thing), I don't use any mail clients to access my Gmail accounts.
All this adds up to a few possibilities:
- My account was compromised before I changed my password, but no one bothered to use it until now.
- My account is currently compromised, but the spammer is using a different account to send emails, while still bothering to spoof me (seems unlikely?).
- A computer on which I was logged into my Gmail account was compromised, and an automated attacker obtained my contacts list from that, somehow.
So I'm wondering how likely possibility 3 is. If such a thing is possible, that would seem to be the most likely method used, based on the above evidence. But I am open to other explanations as well.
edited to add: i should mention, also, that none of my settings have been changed, and that nothing shows up in my sent folder (though i know that's not necessarily informative).
Source: (StackOverflow)
A friend of mine came to me for help with this issues. Her Gmail account has been hacked and keeps sending out spam emails to her contacts. This is happening to her on a monthly basis. Each time it happens she changes her password. She also went through and tweaked all her security settings. However, even after having done all this repeatedly, when she goes into her "Device activity" in her Google Account settings, it keeps showing an unauthorized Android device that belongs to the hacker. It doesn't give her the option to remove it from her devices either.
It looks like the emails aren't being sent from her device (they're sending spam emails to her whole address book and spoofing the from address to make it appear to come from her). However, we still want to know how to rid this device from her account.
Source: (StackOverflow)
A friend of mine has asked for help because his Hotmail account, and Facebook account associated with it, have been hacked. There's no way to recover the Hotmail account - the hacker has secured it with alternative 'phone number and email address. However, my friend only wants his Facebook back as he doesn't use Hotmail.
My friend knows his Facebook email and his old password, from before the hacker changed it, and knows all of his friends.
- I enter his email address and old password. Facebook says: It's an old password, do you want to change it? Yes.
- Send an email to your Hotmail or sign in with your Hotmail?: No longer have access to these.
- Facebook says: Enter a new email where we can reach you: I enter an email address.
- Facebook will send codes to three of your friends in order to recover your Facebook account. Okay, great, continue.
- Now I see
Your account is temporarily unavailable. Regain access by logging in from a web browser.
Source: (StackOverflow)
Sorry if I sound overly paranoid, but I was hacked earlier today on Twitter and I was wondering if the person who did it would be able to access my email?
Source: (StackOverflow)
A Facebook friend's account was hacked and the hacker sent out Friend requests to her friend list. I accepted the bogus request. Now I don't know how to block the person. My Activity Log does not show the hacked friend request or that I accepted it. On my Friend List, it shows that I have 50 friends, but when I count my friend list there are only 49 friends. It shows 1 recently added friend, but when I click on the Recently Added link, it is blank. It appears whoever sent the request is not showing up, but is still there. How do I block this person now?
Source: (StackOverflow)
I have a gmail account which I last accessed in March 2012. Today I received a notification from Google that the password had recently been modified. I tried to access the account in order to reset the password as I was not at the origine of the change.
First, it is impossible for me to click on the option for the recovery email, the system only allows that i click on the option "i no longer have access to these"
Second, I do not recognise the first and last letter of the recovery email (which leads me to believe the account has been hacked)
Unfortunately, even though I followed the steps and tried to answer the questions as best as I could I keep getting told that the answers were not consistent with the account and o try again.
What can I do? Can I ask Google/gmail to close down the account if I cannot have access to it? I would really hate for someone to use my account for fraudulent purposes.
Thank you
Source: (StackOverflow)
If I report my Facebook account as being hacked or 'compromised' will Facebook pass the matter on to the authorities?
Source: (StackOverflow)
This question already has an answer here:
My Gmail was hacked and none of the steps that Google offers via internet works for me. I want to speak to a Gmail tech to explain the situation, but haven't had success getting in contact with Google. Called the company and stayed on line for an hour and 15 min. No one attended my call.
What can I do? I would like to get my email back if possible or at least make sure the account is closed for good so no one else uses it and then get access to my all mails and contacts. Is that possible?
Source: (StackOverflow)
I signed into my Google account and see that there is this Linux that last synced recently..., under "recently used devices".
I have no clue what this is. I don't remember using any Linux or do any syncing with my Google. Is this likely a hacker?
Source: (StackOverflow)
In live.com and related services that use the same account I've been receiving the message
It looks like someone else might be using your account
Now, this has happened to me before in other services like GMail, because I have several computers and usually log in from different places. In GMail I can check the session log to verify the IP addresses and locations of the previous sessions so that I know its a false alarm or not.
Does live.com provide such functionality? If so, how can I access it?
Source: (StackOverflow)