account comprimised?

[balaa]

I'm really not at all sure why ANYONE would want to do this, but apparently someone just tried to hijack my livejournal. I received a 'lost password' e-mail today, which on it's own I wouldn't find TOO suspicious since it happened once before(although it did make me wonder then too). But then all of a sudden I was booted out of my primary e-mail address and told that the password was changed on that account (the account which the 'lost password' email was sent to). I have NO clue who would do this or for what reasons. I have never given out these passwords to anyone so I do not know how someone could have even guessed them or for what means.

I am posting this primarily just in case this someone does manage to gain control over my accounts again and starts posting suspicious entries or you receive odd e-mails from me... I'm really worried about this and can't fathom why anyone would try to in any way steal my identity. I haven't even used this account to really post anything private as I decided to just use the journal to share art...

Kinda worried now..

Comments

[orangedragoness.livejournal.com]

yikes! I sure hope it was just a weird email blooper and not someone stealing your account :(

[seso.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's messed up. *hugs!!* Please try not to worry about it though. It's just not worth stressing over.

[neondragon.livejournal.com]

This MIGHT be strange for e-mail and LJ... but I know with World of Warcraft you have to watch out for these programs called keyloggers. They're often embedded in suspicious flash files and linked off warcraft forums and websites. If it infects your computer it records your keyboard movements and eventually passes off your user name and password to a third party who hacks into your account and steals all your gold (Warcraft gold can be sold for real world money, though it is illegal).

I wonder if there's a similar program that hijacks e-mails. Might be handy for credit card fraud or accessing anything those e-mails are tied to. (I'd guess with the aim getting into finacial stuff)

Of course, it could just be some crazy internet stalker. But I'd try running your virus protection and perhaps an anti spyware program like adaware or spybot.

[tivadu.livejournal.com]

Aren't computers such amazing things? Especially some of the malicious things people can and do with them. Well, hopefully it was just some strange fluke, but to be safe run your spyware/virus updates and scans.

ANYWAYS I hope it all works out and returns to normal for yea!

[jayoen.livejournal.com]

aw man that bites! D: I hope they don't get your account, that would stink ;n; My friend stripeymistress had her account on DA hijacked and she was unable to get it back D: unfortuantely they had to ban it and she had to make a new account. The person seriously screwed all her stuff up though. deleted everything and told her to *gaspexcusemyfrench* "burn in fucking hell bitch". her being a hardcore christian took it extra hard D: and We couldn't figure out why anyone would want to hijack her account either since she's always been so nice and did nothing to deserve it.

But then the real answer reared it's ugly head.
They were holding her account hostage, in an attempt to get free art from her. They agreed to return it if she drew thier OC. That, of course never happened, she never drew this persons OC, and so that persons rude, and uncalled for actions, did not get them the art they apparently so desperately wanted.

Just saying, it might be what they were trying to do to you, I'd watch it carefully and change your passwords everywhere, just to be safe. Because it would really suck if someone took your identity and all you've worked hard for dear :). I give you my best wishes and hope this all clears up soon!

[marbled-genet.livejournal.com]

AUGH!!! There's been SO much hacking going on lately! D8 I don't know why. I've been using the 'net for going on 15 years now, and in the recent months, I've heard more accounts of hacking than I have in my entire time online. o_O

At any rate, I hope everything is OK now. I'm sorry you had to deal with that. :(

Taken!

[torakhan.livejournal.com]

Did you contact the company your primary Email is through to re-acquire your account?

[casidhe.livejournal.com]

Go to a different computer (that you know is clean, like a mac) and change all your passwords. I'd be pretty paranoid from all this if I saw that email.

... just a second thought

[torakhan.livejournal.com]

... just curious... are you SURE that that Email that you got was actually from Live Journal? Did the information you provided back to them (either through an Email reply, or site you followed from it) include your Email and password by chance? (a la Phishing?)

I once fell for a phishing scam myself passed by IM.

[kasamoon.livejournal.com]

that's horrible! I hope that they don't do anything horrible to your email or LJ....

What email provider do you use? I know that there was some worm type thing that was going through yahoo, and it got into my account, sent out a mass spam email to all my contacts, and then deleted all of my contacts! It was very frustrating, but it was from the yahoo end, not from my computer, which hadn't been on at the time the email was sent. I think I heard that its going through hotmail, too.

Though, the LJ thing is fishy, I had that happen to my gaia account once, but nothing happened. It could've just been a prank, and that the two incidents are unrelated.

You're so nice, though, that if anyone started sending mean emails from you're account, I don't think anyone would believe that you wrote them. *nodds*

[zur-fur.livejournal.com]

Oh for shits sake honey! I can't believe someone has done this! That's so ridiculous! People these days....Holy hell.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

GACK!! Glad you caught it in time! ;P *arrrrrgh*.....

[kimbalemur.livejournal.com]

Why would someone want to do that to you?