Have You Ever Been Hacked?

[Bigun]

I've been hacked... once.

 

I had an old forum I ran, that I eventually stopped running, never renewed the domain, but left the site running on the server.  A hacker group located the site and executed a script to give themselves a command line, and then ran a rootkit.

They then began to send out spam through my machine, so much so that it cold locked a switch that the server was connected to, that's how I initially found out I was hacked.  

I used the opportunity to look behind the curtain and see how everything worked.  The group would own a machine, and then have the machine report to an IRC channel to report in and receive commands.  I logged into the IRC server, and saw thousands of machines ready to go.  I decided to have fun and say 'ello to the channel operator.  Needless to say, my IP got banned, and also the server I was running....  I was heartbroken.  

I formatted the machine, and learned my lesson about outdated software.

 

Anyone else want to tell their story?

[Cela1]

Not so far.

 

My story isn't as cool as yours

[mrchow19910319]

I was studying in Singapore. Using Gmail as my main email account.

I know that actually our school did give us an email account, but I do not want to log into school's website every single time if I wanna check whether my classmates send in the project files or not.

 

 

So.. One day on my back up account I received a warning email from Google. Saying that there was a sign in attempt (a successful one) on my email, however Google found out that the IP address was from somewhere in US. They did tell me which city/state, I could not remember. And at that point of time vpn service was not that popular, and clearly I was not using one. Matter of fact I did not even know what VPN is. 

 

After I received that email I immediately changed my password to a more complex one. The original one is just my mom's phone number. At that point of time all those website did not even tell you to include a letter in your password. Just told you how long your password at least should be.. 

 

Edit: typo...

Edited August 15, 2016 by mrchow19910319

[GDRRiley]

I got tricked by some social engineering to give up my Gmail

[Evann]

Someone somehow managed to hack my steam account.. luckly he didn't changed pw or anything else, he just stole my csgo items worth around 500€.. at the end i got everything refunded from steam, because it wasn't my fault at all..

 

still almost got a heart attack 

[ThinkWithPortals]

Nope, and I don't plan on it either

[Bigun]

3 minutes ago, ThinkWithPortals said:

Nope, and I don't plan on it either

No one ever does.

[PRTI]

10 minutes ago, Evann said:

Someone somehow managed to hack my steam account.. luckly he didn't changed pw or anything else, he just stole my csgo items worth around 500€.. at the end i got everything refunded from steam, because it wasn't my fault at all..

 

still almost got a heart attack 

Steam does not refund anymore

[manikyath]

my 3 origin accounts were hacked, together with thousands of others

 

EDIT: should clarify why i had 3:

- my old account from the sims 2 exchange thing

- the account i got for the sims 3 exchange thing

- my actual origin account when they introduced origin to the world of sims.

 

then... they decided to turn them all into origin accounts, and then they all got put into a hack.

 

the last moment i cared about electronic arts is when the official statement was:

log in to help us recover your account

 

i should add that the hacker's approach was to change account password, change account name, and change the email it was tied to.

AKA, my accounts *disappeared*

[TheSuspect]

Not yet. Hopefully not ever.

[porina]

I was playing with Linux, and chose Mint. I'm a kinda veteran noob at Linux, as I try it now and then but never keep at it, or get to any good level. I wanted to VNC into it so I tried to install VNC. This worked without password, and my attempts to set a password failed. I couldn't connect once set. I gave up for the day and left it. While I knew it wasn't secure, it was inside my router so unless they're in already, it'll be ok.

 

Later on, I went back to it, and thought it odd. There's a browser open. Looking at the history, someone had been shopping. As I'm the only person with access, so I thought, it was an intrusion. How did it happen? Wifi? Mains ethernet? Nope. Somehow when installing the software, UPnP opened the port to the outside world for me. Anyone with a port scanner could have found this unprotected VNC share. I only noticed this by chance when I was reviewing the router logs for any unrecognised connections.

 

So, does it count as a hack if I inadvertently left the door wide open? For all its faults, at least I know how to make Windows mostly do what I want.

[PRTI]

I never was hacked since i used a god knows how long shit tone password

 

But i did hack someone,it was my brother,it all started in 1992,WAIT WAIT WAAIIT,not that far i,re role that shit

 

It all started 2 days ago,my family and me were cleaning my mouse (or my house...hmmmmmm mouse and house same thing continue the story goddamn it) and i found my brothers password to his facebook account over a piece of a gold bar (it was a paper piece but i painted it gold so shhhhh don't tell anyone) and went in and....and...and...did nothing

 

SuchZ HaX 4 L!F3

 

Stody fr0m M!n3c4aft 9 y3ar 0ld hYp3d y0utub3r

[Evann]

8 minutes ago, keNNySOC said:

Steam does not refund anymore

well it happened about a year ago, and as far as i know they still do refund, except you're stupid enough to get scammed. 

[PRTI]

Just now, Evann said:

well it happened about a year ago, and as far as i know they still do refund, except you're stupid enough to get scammed. 

They don't do refunds anymore do to the duplicate exploit where people in CS:GO would pretend they where scammed and stolen,then the items would be given to the original account but the scammers account keeps the items as well and they would duplicate the items and earn a SHIT TONE of money if the item is like a knife,somewhere around 7-10 M9 Bayone Crimson Web's in FW condition have been duplicated,so that's why valve quit refunding

[JCBiggs]

i never been hacked.. but I messed up pretty big one time  back in the day.  I was doing a custom and deodexed rom for a really old version of android (2.0 i think) and forgot to wipe all my personal information out of it after i tested it and before I released it.  Cost me about 200 bucks in google apps that others downloaded using my account. lol..  live and learn..

 

[samcool55]

Umm a couple of my old hotmail accounts got hacked.

And my origin account, didn't manage to get both hotmail accounts back but i did manage to get my origin account back.

I enabled 2FA after that on it.

 

Umm, i had a keylogger on my system, luckily i found out about it 2-3 weeks before they started trying to log in my accounts, but i changed all my passwords so i was 1 step ahead

 

And my current hotmail account used for crap is actually a funny thing.

I have 2FA on it, and the address itself got leaked many times so it's constantly getting spammed.

And when i check the login history it's completely full with failed login tries from all over the world

 

Thankfully 2FA does its job very well and after 2-3 years it's still mine

 

edit: in the last month i had 1 or more failed login attempts from these locations:

China, Russia, Ukrain, Turkey, Taiwan, USA, India, Vietnam, Brazil and a random country i never heard of.

 

Funny thing is it keeps the IP  Oh well don't care tbh >_>

[-CLASSIFIED-]

yep , had my twitter , fb , and google accounts compromised along with my steam account. ofc the only one i cared about was my steam account lol

[Sauron]

No.

 

...not that I know of...

 

Either way I'm not very paranoid, if someone gets physical access to my hardware he can get in pretty easily. I just keep an eye on my things to make sure I don't lose them and nobody tinkers with them, and well, if nobody breaks into my house my desktops are safe enough.

[TetraSky]

Never been hacked, as far as I know anyway... My passwords leaked a few times here and there from other services getting hacked, but that's all.

[Gravemind]

Had my gamertag hacked, and they bought $300 worth of seemingly random DLC and Arcade games. Situation was resolved, and due to a loophole I kept the rights to all the bought stuff, while getting the full refund.

 

Both my Yahoo and Skype were hacked in the same day, but all they did was turn it into a spam machine telling everybody in my contacts list how amazing it was to use this new form of Viagra, and trying to sell it to them alongside some shady-ass webcam site.

 

That last one was a little awkward to explain to certain people in my contacts, like my grandparents ._.

[astrayamatu]

after many many many years on the internet 

and owning steam origin ubisoft and many many online game accounts 

i have never been hacked in my hole life 

and even my world of warcraft account i own since the release in 2005 hasnt been hacked

[Bhav]

My facebook account. 3 times, different passwords.

 

I deleted my facebook account as a result.

[comicsansms]

Someone really wants my PSN account for over a year now, about every week or so I get a password reset.

 

[dafuk]

When I was around 12 I got my Habbo Hotel account stolen, and lost all my wonderful furniture

 

Heart breaking stuff it was

[Bigun]

1 hour ago, dafuk said:

When I was around 12 I got my Habbo Hotel account stolen, and lost all my wonderful furniture

 

Heart breaking stuff it was

I participated in the "Pool's Closed" raid from 4-chan.  :3