So my entire day was consumed yesterday with trying to get my Gmail, PayPal, and Hotmail accounts all back under my own control. My accounts were all compromised with minutes of each other and money taken from my PayPal, wanna hear about how it went? Read below the break.
At 4:30 my Digsby Gmail notifier let me know that ‘my PayPal password had been changed, so I immediately went onto PayPal and got my password reset, then changed it to a super secure password. Instantly after I changed it to that, my PayPal password was changed again, and then my Gmail. I called paypal and found that someone had sent $90 out of my account, so I talked to an agent and had the account restricted and the charge claimed as a fraudulent charge. I then worked on retrieving my GMail account. And I had my alternative email set to an old Hotmail account, I went through the recovery steps on Gmail, and went to check my Hotmail, no email yet. So I waited about 2 minutes, still no email, I then realized that my Hotmail account password had been changed. Note: All 3 passwords were different. I then went back to Gmail and had to fill out a much more extensive form to more formally recover my account. I then did the same with PayPal and Hotmail. Once I had control of my Gmail account back, I noticed that the person had deleted my other 3 accounts that were setup on my Gmail account. They had also made their own account on it to send emails to appear as me. As well as they setup a filter to forward every email to themselves as well. So I deleted all of those, set back up my other 3 accounts. Went back and redid my security question. So hopefull I am in the clear again. I have regained control of all 3 accounts, I also have gotten my money back from PayPal. So everything is cool. I reformatted immediately, and long story short had to reformat about 5 times because windows update kept restart looping my Vista. So Yeah, was a very fun day.
