Talk Morgan Forums Thread Like Summary - 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.

Yes, thanks for the prompt Alistair. I've changed mine now. I hadn't received anything from Rich and have no evidence of compromise, but security standards have changed a lot since I first set it.


I've mentioned this before but worth repeating. If you register your own domain you effectively get as many email addresses as you like. I use a unique address with an auto-generated password for every login I create. I have a "catchall" which redirects the addresses to my gmail account, but if any of them is compromised I can disable that particular email through the control panel.

I'll admit it requires some technical knowledge to set up, but if you have the ability, it's well worth doing. I pay £8.99 a year for a .UK domain and £20 p.a. for the hosting, which I consider much better value than a VPN or Anti-Virus package.