Unbelievable. Gmail/Facebook: HACKED!

**CountryWolf07** · 08-31-2010, 09:12 AM

Unbelievable. My Gmail & Facebook accounts were hacked this morning. I am hoping to retrieve both back within 24 hours. Have this happened to anyone? Any problems? Were you able to get it back? This is my first time it happened. I actually am "lost" without them and I use them for EVERYTHING, mostly networking & keeping in touch with friends.

**sana** · 08-31-2010, 10:23 AM

Nothing happened to mine. I just turned it on. Everything was in order. What happens when your account is hacked?

Thank God it

**sana** · 08-31-2010, 10:25 AM

Nothing happened to my account, y was fine. What happens when your account is hacked, never had an account hacked before Thank God. What happens?

**Karen** · 08-31-2010, 11:05 AM

There is a hack out there that send out emails begging for money, etc. I got from "Rachel" today claiming she was in London and had been robbed, needed me to wire her money, etc.

Rachel, this happened to my sister-in-law earlier this summer, she was able to get back her account, but it took some doing.

**CountryWolf07** · 08-31-2010, 11:12 AM

Originally Posted by Karen

There is a hack out there that send out emails begging for money, etc. I got from "Rachel" today claiming she was in London and had been robbed, needed me to wire her money, etc.

Rachel, this happened to my sister-in-law earlier this summer, she was able to get back her account, but it took some doing.

Yup, that is "me".. that is unfortunate. I just hope I am able to get mine back soon! How long did it take her to get her account back? Would it be better to have Facebook deactivate and I can just come up with a new one?

**Karen** · 08-31-2010, 11:19 AM

In her case, I don't think her Facebook was hacked, just her email. It took her a few days to get it back. But if you know all your "friends" and can easily recreate your friends list, I'd delete that Facebook account, and start a new one.

**CountryWolf07** · 08-31-2010, 11:25 AM

Originally Posted by Karen

In her case, I don't think her Facebook was hacked, just her email. It took her a few days to get it back. But if you know all your "friends" and can easily recreate your friends list, I'd delete that Facebook account, and start a new one.

Yeah it is JUST my e-mail address that has been hacked (which is gmail), so because of that, I can't access it, along with my Facebook since that is the e-mail I use to login. *sigh* Hopefully I'll get it back within a couple days. I was not able to 'delete' because it isn't under my control, but the hacker's.

**cassiesmom** · 08-31-2010, 01:35 PM

Originally Posted by CountryWolf07

Unbelievable. My Gmail & Facebook accounts were hacked this morning. I am hoping to retrieve both back within 24 hours. Have this happened to anyone? Any problems? Were you able to get it back? This is my first time it happened. I actually am "lost" without them and I use them for EVERYTHING, mostly networking & keeping in touch with friends.

I lost my Gmail earlier this summer for a few days. Couldn't access it at all. I was very lost without it. If you click on "can't access your account" on the sign-in screen, you can get Google to send an activation code to your cell phone. Then there is a field on Gmail where you enter the activation code and it allows you to change your password and regain access to your account. I had to do this twice, because the first time Google sent me the activation code, I couldn't find the field to enter it.

Reading this thread reminds me that after this happened I thought to myself that I should get a flash drive and back up all my contacts onto it.

**ramanth** · 09-02-2010, 07:40 AM

A couple of weeks ago I logged into one of my gmail accounts that I use sporadically and it was loaded with spam and there was a header warning from Gmail saying my account may of been hacked and to change my password immediately. I did that, deleted the spam and I haven't had any problems since. None of my old emails were missing.

Glad you got it sorted out!

**CountryWolf07** · 09-02-2010, 10:35 AM

Basically, I had to set up another gmail account, so Facebook/Gmail could contact me about my original gmail account. So, once I was able to get my original account back, what Kim just said, a header showed up at the top of my inbox, in RED, warning me that my account may of been hacked and to change my password immediately, and so I did that. Gmail did give me a page of the IP addresses, showing me the strange activity that was going on, and it was all coming from Nigeria!

Once I got into my original email, I had to change everything in settings. Apparently this hacker set up a 'forwarding' address, so I had to delete that, etc. because my messages were not coming in Inbox, as it should be, and kept ending up in Trash. All fixed now!

**pomtzu** · 09-02-2010, 10:57 AM

After I read of all this, I changed my Google password. I made it so darn complicated, that I had to write it down until I get used to it.

Gmail is good about sorting out spam and sending it directly to the spam box, rather than the regular in box. Occasionally a spam gets thru, but not too often. You can tell without even reading them, that most are from Nigeria, and I just delete them en-masse.

**CountryWolf07** · 09-03-2010, 09:36 AM

Facebook has disabled my account again, I suppose to make sure that it was me, using it, so they keep asking me questions. It is taking forever to get my account back, even though it only has been a day. It is frustrating.