Gmail - me hacked?
Nope, I'm pretty sure I've never logged onto gmail on anything other than my PC or iPhone, but I deleted the account from my iPhone ages ago. I ran a complete scan with Kaspersky (almost 400Gb worth of files >.<) and that came out clean so, my line of thought is....... I'm an idiot.
Odds are I used my gmail account to sign up to some forum where I didn't want to use my @force9 email address, I don't mind if my gmail gets spam because I rarely use it. So my thinking is I signed up to a forum using my @gmail with my same password as my gmail password. Someone managed to hack the forums database and the passwords were saved plain text and not MD5 hashed so they have a huge list of peoples emails with possible passwords and managed to hit lucky with mine.
I've ruled out a virus/trojan, the odds of google being hacked are basically zero, keylogger, kaspersky throws up tons of false positives with that but on the scan didn't find anything untowards, nor did Windows Defender so as far as I can see my system is "clean" which brings it down to user error. The password I used was 11 letters and numbers so a reverse crack of MD5 without a huge rainbow table is improbable, and is also the same password I use to log into PlusNet, time to change that, luckily it's not the same as my PN email password.
Gah, of course, everywhere now they can google me and if I've used the same password, oh dear, this could be interesting to say the least
@artificer - if Google had been hacked, it would be a front page story, their database would be behind firewalls and what-not to make it improbable at best, if they were there would be tons of posts out there with "my gmail got hacked!" by now and The Register would pick it up, so I'm going to settle for me being an idiot, although, I really can't remember posting to any forum which doesn't use a forum that uses MD5, it's, confuddling.
/edit - Okily, I googled and turned up a fair few results. I'm lucky I didn't use gmail for my facebook page else they would have logged in on that too. So yes, I could have been the victim of an exploit from gmail and not through my own idiocy!
Odds are I used my gmail account to sign up to some forum where I didn't want to use my @force9 email address, I don't mind if my gmail gets spam because I rarely use it. So my thinking is I signed up to a forum using my @gmail with my same password as my gmail password. Someone managed to hack the forums database and the passwords were saved plain text and not MD5 hashed so they have a huge list of peoples emails with possible passwords and managed to hit lucky with mine.
I've ruled out a virus/trojan, the odds of google being hacked are basically zero, keylogger, kaspersky throws up tons of false positives with that but on the scan didn't find anything untowards, nor did Windows Defender so as far as I can see my system is "clean" which brings it down to user error. The password I used was 11 letters and numbers so a reverse crack of MD5 without a huge rainbow table is improbable, and is also the same password I use to log into PlusNet, time to change that, luckily it's not the same as my PN email password.
Gah, of course, everywhere now they can google me and if I've used the same password, oh dear, this could be interesting to say the least
@artificer - if Google had been hacked, it would be a front page story, their database would be behind firewalls and what-not to make it improbable at best, if they were there would be tons of posts out there with "my gmail got hacked!" by now and The Register would pick it up, so I'm going to settle for me being an idiot, although, I really can't remember posting to any forum which doesn't use a forum that uses MD5, it's, confuddling.
/edit - Okily, I googled and turned up a fair few results. I'm lucky I didn't use gmail for my facebook page else they would have logged in on that too. So yes, I could have been the victim of an exploit from gmail and not through my own idiocy!