Facebook & Hotmail
 

Well I'm having a wonderful weekend last night my facebook and hotmail account were hacked and so far I'm getting no where with getting them back. Hotmail keep asking me my secret question answer.....um yea the tw*t who's messing me about has changed my answers .....hotmail - without the answers we cant help in the fastest possible manner......um ok did you NOT just see my response bah!

hows your weekend going? :hop:

jay x

Unlucky :( I hope you get things sorted ASAP.

My weekend's not going to badly. Went for a BBQ at my parents yesterday and haven't been up long yet today XD

you must have had really easily guessed passowords and secret answers, youd be suprised how easy it is to hack someone because they use predicatble passowords, once you get it back i suggest you look at how to get securer passwords.

um i dont actually my friend who incidently is a hacker himself set my passwords for me, i trust him alot and have known him for nearly 20 years, if your wondering why id let someone know my passwords. what happened was this person, who wasnt even on my msn msger list, popped up and started saying if i didnt do on cam my facebook would be changed, well obviously i wouldnt go on cam and they logged me out of facebook....have no clue how. then said if i go on cam i get facebook password if not then my hotmail will be changed to. as you can probably guess i didnt play his stupid games.

so sorry if thats come across as a bit harsh but as you can probably guess im very pissed off at the moment and for someone to tell me its my fault.....well pushes me a bit too far.

jay x

hotmail is super easy to hack if you know someone. it's quite funny to hack it and leave them an email saying 'ohhi, iwas here' :P

Aw sorry that happened, man. My friend did that once as a "joke" but eventually I got it under control, hope things work out. My weekends been really blah and just gray.

Oh nooo ):
I hope you get it sorted.

My weekend has been sorta blah, but yeah.

Solution. Hack it yourself? Or have your mate do it

Anything can get hacked, some are harder than others.

yes and no. I doubt your person did a true crack of her hotmail account. The answer to post people's secret questions is very easy to guess.

Modern systems lock you out after 5-10 wrong tries. (this is to prevent brute force attacks) lets claim you want to get into a system. You've disabled the lock out system and you did the normal battery of dictionary attacks. The password is a random collection of letters and numbers.

If its password uses only lowercase letters and it is 5 characters long there would be about 7.9*10^6 different combinations. If you add in uppercase letters the number of passwords jumps to 3.11*10^8. With numbers its at 7.7*10^6 and with 30 special characters it jumps to 5.9*10^9 .

As you can see passwords should be random and use all types of characters.

i have a lot of sympathy sweetie, this happened to me a few months ago-i cried lots. i had so many lovely emails from when i was on sick leave and they all went-should learn to save things i know!
and my password was a made up word with upper case and numbers in.....if they wana get in they will!!

and hotmail are w@nkers about it, i wrote god knows how many reports/enquiries and they never got back to me and never got my emails back etc!

x

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my friend set my password for hotmail like 4 years ago and i still have to check it cause is so damn complicated i could never remember it :D

aww sucks, alot of people seem to be having crappy weekends too, hope everyones ok

jay x

that suck lil esky, ive done those reports and got directed to this private forum....yea it explains nothing so im just as confuzzled as before, also didnt realise how addicted i am to facebook now that i cant get on it lol :p

jay x

I found a cool way to generate random passwords

http://www.dave-reed.com/Nifty/randSeq.html


Number of random letter sequences to generate put in 50
Length of each random letter sequence put in how many characters long you want your password to be.
Letters to choose from: use abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWX YZ1234567890-=!@#$%^&*()_+\|`~,./?><;'::"[]{}

and you pick your favorite one.


EDIT: Also this is a cool tool to check password strength
http://www.passwordmeter.com/

i will be checking out those sites when i can actually get into my accounts, danke for the linkage :)

Sory to hear you have been hacked.I have a bad wkend.im sick ,have no voice ,swollen throat and etc.
I juat want to be normal again

Bummer, Jay.

Well done for telling him to bugger off though. You did the right thing.

This has made me change all my passwords.

Do you have another account on the system or is it just that one?

there is a back door........