I feel violated!!

BrideBuddies

Was looking at a restaurant website and my email got hacked!    Some ad selling online prescriptions was sent to every single dammmn person in my address book.

ARGH!!!!

What do you do.. besides changing passwords?????????

Peppernut

Was it a gmail account?  

I have one hotmail account that I've had forever.  I use it for registering for ANYthing online, forums, filling out forms at the doctor's office, whatever.  My gmail I only give to family and a few friends.  It's still not a perfect solution, but it seems to help.

BrideBuddies

No.. it was my one and only email account.. AOL.   I immediately changed my password and also my FB password, just in case.   But I instantly got a bunch of bounce-backs and a few friends emailed me back that I was hacked.

Sigh.  Maybe it will just go away?  Or do I need to completely change emails now?  I've had this email since the invention of email!

itsmexine

When I had an AOL account is got hacked.  I just changed my password and everything was ok.  I decided to change providers for a different reason.

Strunella

That happened to me too...apparently I sent everyone I know email about Viagra from a Canadian pharmacy, including DH.  So, DH emailed me and said, "Why did you send me an email about Viagra?"  Guess he was a little nervous! 

I don't think I even changed my password to tell you the truth.

Vincent

I never understood why some email accounts get hacked into and other don't.  I have comcast and haven't had an issue but I also have a yahoo account (for coupons, store newsletters etc) and that one has been hacked into at least once this year.  I don't think I changed my password when it happened and fortunately it hasn't happened again.  I'm curious does changing the password actually stop the hacking from happening again?