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#446416 - 02/12/18 03:09 PM OT: Hacked
sparky589 Offline
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Registered: 11/12/11
Posts: 1461
Loc: NJ
Got an email from Sweetwater thanking me for my $400 order. Problem is I didn't make one. My billing info, including credit card, with my name but different shipping address, to a mail forwarding service , to overseas locations. Contacted them right away and they stopped order process. Then received 50+ email thanking me for registering accounts with businesses across the globe. Email/ gmail / Google account hacked. No live support available from Google for this problem..Changed passwords, canceled cards, etc...so watch out boys..
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#446420 - 02/12/18 03:48 PM Re: OT: Hacked [Re: sparky589]
synerjim Offline
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Registered: 10/27/03
Posts: 526
Loc: CA
Wow, that's scary.
Thanks for the heads up
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#446432 - 02/13/18 12:23 AM Re: OT: Hacked [Re: sparky589]
Nigel Offline
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Registered: 06/01/98
Posts: 6482
Loc: Ventura CA USA
I would also do a full virus/malware scan on your PC as well. To get your credit card info they must have got it from your PC or else found somehow in the real world. What virus/malware software are you using that may have let this get through? Malwarebytes is very good https://www.malwarebytes.com/ and there is a free version you can get to scan your PC. It would be bad for this to just happen again.

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#446450 - 02/13/18 06:55 AM Re: OT: Hacked [Re: sparky589]
sparky589 Offline
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Registered: 11/12/11
Posts: 1461
Loc: NJ
Thanks Nigel. I have Kaspersky on laptop and others on tablet, norton mobile on phone.
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#446479 - 02/13/18 10:20 AM Re: OT: Hacked [Re: sparky589]
sparky589 Offline
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Registered: 11/12/11
Posts: 1461
Loc: NJ
Downloaded and ran thanks again Nigel. Fyi for everybody I spoke to Sweetwater and they said their systems are run in house and they have not recently nor ever had a data breach...I'm hoping its not that they haven't discovered it yet...
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