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sunny-dave | 09:45 Sun 10th Jun 2012 | ChatterBank
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Just woke up to find a very old (pretty much inactive) gmail account has been hacked - I don't think anyone here has received any spam - but apologies if you did. Now busy changing *all* passwords for *everything* - deep, deep joy ...

gmail/google spotted the suspicious activity (login from mexico and attempt to email all my contacts) and suspended the account. When my phone tried to check for mail on that account (as it does once a day) the login failed and the phone displayed an alert. I then had to go through the account retrieval process to regain control of the account.

Just to spur everyone to look at their own passwords .... the cracked password was of the form xxxxxxxxnn (that is eight letters, not a real word, followed by two numbers) - which isn't exactly a pushover but was obviously susceptible to brute force cracking (from bloody mexico it seems) ... new ones now include assorted punctuation characters and mixed caps/lower case - what a pain ...
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