This morning I woke up to the unpleasantness of my gmail account having been hacked into. I checked my email and there were a number of emails originated from my account at 3AM which I didn't actively send. Obviously this is not a new phenomenon and many have suffered a similar fate but that doesn't make it any less aggravating. So my entire address book was sent an email with the link of some Russian or Ukrainian site. I have no problem sending Russian porn to my friends but I want to be the one who actually sent it, viewed it and approved it. Who the hell knows what this is but I'm sure it's some teen bestiality thing and that is NOT TOR approved.
Well not only was I pissed that porn was sent out on my behalf without my approval but then I spent 3 hours changing passwords, reporting to GMail, apologizing to friends, eliminating about 50 people from Facebook (unrelated by necessary) and trying to figure out how my account was hacked.
Online advise asked me if I have an updated operating system and if I signed up for anything recently. As I really only use my IPhone or Blackberry to send and receive emails the first part seems OK and the only thing I have signed up for recently is registering as a minister for the United Church of the People so that can't be it either.
So now I'm stuck to either close my gmail account or wait till my friends get banged with another link for larger penis size, pills of Viagra or some Kenyan millionaire looking to park his money.
...And y'all laugh at Zed for hanging on to his NYU account.
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