Account hacked

[430005]

I did unlink my PayPal from Trion, just to be safe.

Hm, same I guess.

[Snib]

The account that was hacked hasn't even used PayPal i don't think,

Yeah, which is why the account wasn't hacked but your paypal info was phished or your computer is compromised and the info gotten from there.

[Varathius]

people's accounts get mostly hacked because they do not pay attention when reading emails and they click on everything there is to click in an email.

Nobody just hacks your account like that unless you have some bad stuff on your computer.

I use my computer since 3 years now. I have no firewall and no anti-virus, no face book, twitter and any of that nonsense, and I never had a anything 3rd party installed that will steal my info.

People should watch less free p0rn and click less on everything there is to click in an email and do some careful reading of the email's origin etc before even opening it.

[DarkNisha]

I use my computer since 3 years now. I have no firewall and no anti-virus, no face book, twitter and any of that nonsense, and I never had a anything 3rd party installed that will steal my info.

even if you check each email, each website address that you click on, each individual program you run, this does not protect you from viruses or hacking. Depending on the operating system of your machine (anderoid and windows being most vaulnerable all the way down to debian being the most secure... but not protected), simply by being online, you are hackable.

Someone simply needs to collect your IP address by snooping a websites traffic, or seeing where someone posts on a forum from (some forums keep track of IPs for security purposes), or even simply using a browser with a known security flaw (thats all of them by the way, even firefox or opera has security flaws), you are hackable.

There are also ways of Faking links and emails. Say for example your bestest friend in the world has an email address mybff@trustedemail.com, it is possible, and regularly done, that some one will send you an email from mybff@trustedemail.com that will appear for all intents purposes to be from your bff, but is infact from Mr Evil Hacker of Hackertown.

There is 0 ways of completely protecting a system from outside interferance (except not connecting your machine to the power or interwebs) even with a firewall and antivirus. However, every person on the interwebs should have one installed, if your too cheap to buy one, get a free one like Comodo (unless your using a windows 8 tablet, in which case there is a conflict there), or buy one like kasparsky.

If everyone had fully updated operating systems, and fully up to date security installed on there machines, it would be far more difficault for someone like Mr Evil Hacker of Hackertown to break into other peoples machines. By not installing antivirus and firewall software, you are leaving your system open to be used as a slave machine for the hackers and virus makers (they use your machine to help hack other peoples).

You would be suprised how many peoples machines are used as slave machines for hackers. there has even been routers found with malicious software installed on them, there are even entire servers online that are dedicated to hacking. If a packet of information leaves your machine, it will eventually meet a hacked server, this gives Mr Evil Hacker of Hackertown all the information he needs to find your machine. Everytime you connect to the interwebs, everytime you do anything requiring interweb access, even just having your system turned on and connected via a wire or wireless, your system sends out packets of information. That means Mr Evil Hacker of Hackertown can (and by all likely hood has) hacked your machine.

Now for you, installing antivirus and a firewall at this point is kinda like closing the stable door after the hellbug has eaten all your horses, so not much point. What you need to do, is wipe your machine, get a new harddrive, and reinstall the whole damn shebang, along with antivirus and firewall... oh and all your information is belong to mr E. Hacker... so dont bother saving or storing on external drive to access later on. All your pictures, all your documents, all your text files, all your programs are infected (or can be taken as infected as you have no real way of knowing at this point).

If you dont believe me, go do some research at your local library on interwebs security... or dont, and help Mr Evil Hacker of Hackertown make easy monies.

[Snib]

get a new harddrive

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[DarkNisha]

cute

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It may be cute, but its also true. There was a virus not so long ago that stored itself in the firmware section of your HDD, this is rarely wiped even when hard formatting a HDD, and so the virus never went away unless you has access to some serious kit (my hubby wrote one for a university project as well, dont worry, it was never released into the wild cause he isnt mr evil hacker). Plus most formatting doesnt actually delete the data, it simple removes the directions to the data (think of removing all road signs and maps to a place, the place still exists, its just really hard to get to), this data can return with the right conditions (not so common these days, but used to happen). Always safer to buy a new HDD.

[VicousBlood]

For you peeps on Win 8+, I recommend running Hitman Pro http://www.surfright.nl/en as a secondary scan in addition to your primary anti-software. For those running Win 7 and below running a combination of combofix http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/ and then Hitman Pro will fully clean your machines usually 99% of the time. I don't even run an antivirus anymore, but those are truly the best tools around atm.

And as a previous poster had mentioned, you should never link an account of any kind to a payment method.

[VicousBlood]

It may be cute, but its also true. There was a virus not so long ago that stored itself in the firmware section of your HDD, this is rarely wiped even when hard formatting a HDD, and so the virus never went away unless you has access to some serious kit (my hubby wrote one for a university project as well, dont worry, it was never released into the wild cause he isnt mr evil hacker). Plus most formatting doesnt actually delete the data, it simple removes the directions to the data (think of removing all road signs and maps to a place, the place still exists, its just really hard to get to), this data can return with the right conditions (not so common these days, but used to happen). Always safer to buy a new HDD.

Depends on the format, full formats overwrite all data with 1's and 0's. Quick formats only clear the Master File Table. In which case, the files are still on the drive until they are written over by something else. And can be recovered with disk forensics software sometimes corrupted sometimes absolutely fine. Depends on whether or not new data has been written into that cluster and sector and how much data.

[Kyosji]

For you peeps on Win 8+, I recommend running Hitman Pro http://www.surfright.nl/en as a secondary scan in addition to your primary anti-software. For those running Win 7 and below running a combination of combofix http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/download/combofix/ and then Hitman Pro will fully clean your machines usually 99% of the time. I don't even run an antivirus anymore, but those are truly the best tools around atm.

And as a previous poster had mentioned, you should never link an account of any kind to a payment method.

I would never use those myself.

[Haavikk]

Gotta be careful joining these so called gaming clans they can put a autologger on their site that they say go to our site and do this and do that
then they have what they need to cause havoc.