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

Re: ... just a second thought

[nimirpard.livejournal.com]

Yikes! Hope you get it fixed up again. All the advice you need is already posted here. Change your passwords on a clean computer, consider the possibility that the password change mails were themselves just attempts to get you to click a link and log in yourself (thus actually stealing your password in the process).

The malware these days is so sneaky that I wouldn't even try to detect and clean it with antivirus. If you suspect there may be something sneaky on your computer, boot off a CD, format it and start with a clean install. Then put good antivirus on, before you install anything else or copy your docs back.

Re: ... just a second thought

[ketrava.livejournal.com]

I gotta bump this comment nimir and torak both have solid suggestions. As for the why? Because they can. I once had my boyfriends wow account hacked and DEMOLISHED not sold just destroyed remade destroyed remade, because I accidentally forgot to unmute someone who was being an ass in vent. They got offended and because I don't run much of anything on my gaming pc he went for my boyfriends who runs tons of addons. If some other stuff shares the same password login combo they may have just been feeling malicious.

Ketrava