Talk Morgan Forums Community The Malvern Arms Hacked email account

Apologies and thank you to my friends on here that let me know. Microsoft promise me that it is frozen for 30 days !

Time to exercise another private one .

I guess Richards email might have been hacked.
The modern nerd world is a horrible thing.

I just say this as a general note, it is so common now that peoples online identities are hacked.
It causes so much personal distraction, wasted time and anger that I do want to make a noise for all of us.

If you get an email from him as I have you might like to

1. Do not reply to it.
2. Change your own email password (when did you last do that!!) NOW.
3. Make certain you consider all emails from anyone in context.

The email I got did not speak "Devon" so was clearly not from Richard. Among this modern AI cobblers this is a critical thing to think about. Would that person say those words in that manner?

I have suffered this on some of my public ID's and it is TEDIOUS. Please take a moment to hit the "forgot my password" link and use this to set a new password on all your accounts. On your key sites, anything with your credit card stored, bank, identity information (DoB, NI number) this is critical.

Sorry Richard, not meant at you. It's an element that cranks my handle, just to highlight how it is so easy to become complacent and not protect ourselves on line.

Alistair, thank you I shall get onto that tomorrow morning as I am always pleased to listen and act on sound advise,

Just to add to Alistair's great advice, also make sure that for anything critical, ensure that 2-Factor authorisation is also set up so that even if they have your password they will still need access to one of your physical devices like your smartphone.

I don't know if Windows does this (I expect it does but I've never bothered to look), but on Macs there is not only a built-in password manager that generates strong passwords for you, but also a very handy 'Hide my email address' feature which creates a dummy email for you to use on sites that then re-directs to your Apple mail account. That way you don't have to give your real email address to anyone you don't know.

Thanks Tim, I have 2 Factor on .some Windows (Desktop Windows 10) critical one's but I need to review the others as a matter of urgency.

I will not bank or pay with the phone as my background tells me anything that is transmitted over the air is readily detected with or without encryption which is only a matter of time to decipher if the will (money) is there.

Msoft are threatening not to support and upgrade Windows 10 on my sturdy and totally reliable Dell Desktop c20yrs which is where the work is done, so probably be forced to chuck a couple of french fries at it to take care of Windows 11 sometime.

The Inland Revenue, DVLA etc can take their chance as far as I'm concerned as they are well down the food chain tbh..