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Is my e-mail hacked?

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shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
August 18 2011 10:34 GMT
#1
As thread title says I'm unsure if my g-mail account got hacked.

I got some notifications from former co-workers and family and friends that they received some spam today from my e-mail address.
It came from my gmail. I changed the password already.
What I'm wondering is if I got hacked without downloading any program past month or two I think. Browsing only TL (and links on tl like liquipedia or community news links etc).
I'm on a Macbook Pro so afaik there is no anti-virus program to download.

What other way is there for my gmail account being compromised?

I figured that this place is probably the best way to ask since google support will take ages and TL ppl are generally smart.

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http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
TheAmazombie
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States3714 Posts
August 18 2011 10:39 GMT
#2
Probably. Change the password again. Sometimes it has nothing to do with what you do or your computer, just someone get together information on an email address and a password. I have had this happen before, once you change it, it stops.
We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. -Charlie Chaplin
MrCynical
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States99 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 10:48:49
August 18 2011 10:47 GMT
#3
On August 18 2011 19:34 shannn wrote:
As thread title says I'm unsure if my g-mail account got hacked.

I got some notifications from former co-workers and family and friends that they received some spam today from my e-mail address.
It came from my gmail. I changed the password already.
What I'm wondering is if I got hacked without downloading any program past month or two I think. Browsing only TL (and links on tl like liquipedia or community news links etc).
I'm on a Macbook Pro so afaik there is no anti-virus program to download.

What other way is there for my gmail account being compromised?

I figured that this place is probably the best way to ask since google support will take ages and TL ppl are generally smart.

What are you on?

Maybe you visited some web page that exploited your browser (do you keep this up to date? >.>), that's about all I can think of if you claim you "haven't downloaded any programs in the past month or two" although I haven't heard of an exploit pack targeting browsers created for OSX yet.
tpyo
Profile Blog Joined June 2010
32 Posts
August 18 2011 10:51 GMT
#4
Scroll down to bottom of your gmail page. Look for "Last account activity: ## minutes ago
Details"

Click on Details for the list of IPs that accessed your account
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
August 18 2011 10:55 GMT
#5
On August 18 2011 19:51 tpyo wrote:
Scroll down to bottom of your gmail page. Look for "Last account activity: ## minutes ago
Details"

Click on Details for the list of IPs that accessed your account

That helped. It was some hacking from China lol.

And I did change my password last week. It's a custom I have from my school which always asks for changing password every 5 months or so. So I had the notification to change my school password last week so I also do that for my e-mail as well as my OS password.

That's why I found it so odd that I got hacked while my password recently got changed.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
Talho
Profile Joined August 2010
Belgium592 Posts
August 18 2011 11:07 GMT
#6
Since your on MAC, and the possibility of it being hacked is quite low.
So it's quite possible some other website where you registered was hacked and usernames/passwords got compromised, and you're using the same password for gmail ?
dyodyo
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
Philippines578 Posts
August 18 2011 11:07 GMT
#7
Are you using the same password for both your gmail and your school account? If so, maybe your school's servers have been compromised which led to the hacker knowing your gmail password. I'd suggest using different passwords for the two accounts.
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Grettin
Profile Joined April 2010
42381 Posts
August 18 2011 12:15 GMT
#8
Did you have your Email+password on GOM's site? That might be one place to get your email compromised if you haven't clicked any spam mail or suspicious sites.
"If I had force-fields in Brood War, I'd never lose." -Bisu
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
August 18 2011 12:22 GMT
#9
The e-mail I used for GOM is not my gmail account. It did come to my attention but the passwords are not the same as well.
I think it might be through school server as my gmail and school e-mail did used to have the same password.
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
itachisan
Profile Blog Joined June 2011
Canada109 Posts
August 18 2011 14:40 GMT
#10
It happened to me once as well, where my friends were complaining about receiving emails from me that I never sent. However I changed my password immediately afterwards and this situation was never heard of again. Think you are worrying too much IMO
3FFA
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States3931 Posts
August 18 2011 14:49 GMT
#11
Please google before saying there is no antivirus to download for mac. There are tons. I should know, I'm 15 and go to a school where they have new macs all of which have antivirus protection systems installed. There is of course norton(meh). But heres a nice list to choose from:

Yahoo Answers- Found this from googling "Free Mac book Antivirus".

I believe you should also calm down. This isn't an emergency!(and you should be calm during those too IMHO)

"As long as it comes from a pure place and from a honest place, you know, you can write whatever you want."
evanthebouncy!
Profile Blog Joined June 2006
United States12796 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 15:35:22
August 18 2011 15:32 GMT
#12
On August 18 2011 23:49 3FFA wrote:
Please google before saying there is no antivirus to download for mac. There are tons. I should know, I'm 15 and go to a school where they have new macs all of which have antivirus protection systems installed. There is of course norton(meh). But heres a nice list to choose from:

Yahoo Answers- Found this from googling "Free Mac book Antivirus".

I believe you should also calm down. This isn't an emergency!(and you should be calm during those too IMHO)



No, he's raising a valid point and we are not sure if the hack is due to a virus physically on his computer or is he just visting malicious websites which somehow extracted his password without infecting his computer.

There are plenty plenty ways of hijacking an email, some of them do not require the explicit knowledge of one's password. The only way I know of if hijacking a login session but I feel gmail should be fairly resilient to those. I'd use a more secure browser, as I do suspect this is a web attack, and make sure to log-out of all sensitive accounts before surfing a website you do not trust.
Here are a list of some common web attacks, I do not know much, and it is likely that whoever hacked your gmail account uses methods that are more sophisticated. But it is good read regardless:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_request_forgery
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-site_scripting

3FFA just fyi if you come in with this attitute "please google", "I'm 15", and a link to yahoo answer, and telling people they should calm down, it makes you very unpleasant. If you want people to adopt your idea and point of views it is recommended that you do not sound off as "I know it better than you", that way people are more willing to listen.
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Nizaris
Profile Joined May 2010
Belgium2230 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 17:39:43
August 18 2011 16:01 GMT
#13
go to mail options at the top of the page

In accounts and imports
Grant access to your account:
(Allow others to read and send mail on your behalf)


Make sure it's empty. I've read somewhere that they usually add their accounts there, so they can still send emails from your account even if you change your password.

That and changing your password should ensure they won't be able to send emails.

I would definitely notify Google Support tho, maybe they will help you find out exactly how it happened. I'm fairly certain they take Gmail hacking pretty seriously these days.
SpoR
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1542 Posts
August 18 2011 16:39 GMT
#14
maybe it has to do with gomtv.net being attacked. Emails and user info was compromised.
A man is what he thinks about all day long.
smaugswe
Profile Joined November 2010
Sweden121 Posts
August 18 2011 16:51 GMT
#15
Had this problem too... I spammed each time i like logged in to my email either from msn or just email... then hotmail locked my account... and i found out what caused all that and it was a botnet... so i just reformated and then contacted hotmail and they unlocked my account
I dont have any Windows in my room... I use linux... :)
AppleTart
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
United States1261 Posts
August 18 2011 17:31 GMT
#16
Change pass asappp
always tired -_-
shannn
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Netherlands2891 Posts
August 18 2011 20:27 GMT
#17
Thanks guys and @3FFA I said that I didn't knew because I was told by a friend there wasn't any but now I know he didn't know for sure (tells me that I should just look things up to be sure just in case).
Since I know there is an anti-virus I've downloaded the iAntiVirus program so thanks for the tip.

@evanthebouncy
The only sites I browse on my mac is through TL / apple dev (for developing apps). Anything else is visited through my phone browser. So maybe it's through there?

I've already changed my password (2nd time for all sites/accounts) in a week. Nothing has happened yet but just to be safe I changed them all (which isn't much since it's only half a dozen sites).

Thanks for the replies guys. Google support still has no answer yet :p
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewpost.php?post_id=6321864 Epic post.
SCC-Faust
Profile Blog Joined November 2007
United States3736 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-08-18 21:49:35
August 18 2011 21:39 GMT
#18
This is so weird, I read this topic last night and found out one of my e-mail accounts has been compromised today. It got locked down on the 14th (it is an old account I barely use for anything).

It seems so bizarre because I don't think I have any viruses, and I use many many e-mail accounts with the same password... and the one that gets compromised recently I haven't touched in months.

How..? It barely had any contacts on it. Hotmail account btw

Edit: I've noticed a close friend of mine also had this happen to her hotmail account too. And we're not computer illiterate or anything. We've never clicked on links or downloads from our e-mail accounts. Is there some sort of hotmail exploit going around or something?
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