It seems that someone in China got hold of my password and logged into my account to send them. We think that the person must have got it from when I used the computers in the public library either by watching me or by having some kind of programme installed on the computer.
I immediately changed my password on everything I used at the library and now I'm going through everything else I'm registered with and changing the e-mail address and password for them all (I have the same passwords for most things and also on a lot of things one's e-mail address is the username). I've developed a new system for passwords so that they are not all the same but they are not too difficult to remember.
In future if our internet goes off I think I will try to only use the internet at houses of people I know rather than the public library and if I do have to use the library I will change my password as soon afterwards as possible.
The moral of the story is:
- change your password regularly;
- don't have the same password for everything;
- be alert when you use public computers;
- have a separate e-mail address (with an empty address book) for signing up for things online.
3 comments:
that happened to my old myspace. it was a mess. the person who got in sent really awful things to all my friends and Jesse. I think I may have known who they were. But I can't be sure.
All my passwords are in different languages.
Good luck with getting things straightened out!
Oh my gosh Susan!!How awful hope you get everything straightened out.Have a wonderful day!!
Very very good points. My husband and I have just been talking about passwords and changing them regularly and not using the same one for everything. Because he is so computer savvy he can write up a program that will make a password for each account that he has... I won't be using that but he also gave me some other good points. These are very good reminders!
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