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Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca  For future reference, it's an extremely bad idea to use the same password for multiple places. I'd be willing to bet a small amount of money that you use the same password for a banking site, or some site that holds more personal and/or important information than here and your email. Bad, bad idea. |
Duly noted, and no longer the case.
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Originally Posted by ElDiabloConCaca Also, "hacked" entails that someone used some method of bypassing your password to illegally gain access to your accounts -- which doesn't sound like the case here. It sounds like someone simply guessed your password (was it a strong password, or something easy like a word, phrase, pet's name or birthday?), then tried the same password at another site. This is NOT hacking -- it's simply the result of choosing an easy-to-guess password. |
Trust me, they did not guess my password; it was a string of numbers that mean nothing to anyone. Much as I hate to throw around the "hacked" claim because I think it's cliché and overused, I do believe I was in fact hacked. The member whom my email had been set to forward to is also a member of Nulledscriptz (a webmaster resource forum), a second webmaster forum, and has posts on several forums where he is trying to sell rapidshare accounts, adword vouchers, legalsounds accounts, skype accounts, and vbulletin licenses.