MSN Messenger Hacking?

[ceejaydee]

Hi all I am the "friend" AndrewJames has been on about I'm the one who got hacked and im the person whos conversation piece got posted here lol , Now is my time to add my own little tale.

I have not recieved a virus , or any porn with the email account, i have reported it to MSN and am still waiting to hear from them as to if i can get my account back or not, tho the friend whos account was used i had earlier on been having a conversation with, and not long after was hacked herself, i had been in the belief i was talking with her as i had not added any new contacts.

I have been very vigilent of my msn contacts since i was hacked via a trojan sent back door, last year. The "hacker" had been priming me with questions which was to find the answer for my security question, wasnt until i blocked this contact that i knew they had taken control of my account as my msn then signed out on its own and a little icon came up saying i was signed in on a different location, friends then told me my display name had then changed to something im not even gonna repeat . Another friend of mine was able to trace their IP and it was an american one, ( this to date is all i know ) my friend whom i thought was in conversation with at the time has now got her account back with contacts in tact ( thank the lord ).

[paulyoung666]

Originally Posted by ceejaydee

Hi all I am the "friend" AndrewJames has been on about I'm the one who got hacked and im the person whos conversation piece got posted here lol , Now is my time to add my own little tale.

I have not recieved a virus , or any porn with the email account, i have reported it to MSN and am still waiting to hear from them as to if i can get my account back or not, tho the friend whos account was used i had earlier on been having a conversation with, and not long after was hacked herself, i had been in the belief i was talking with her as i had not added any new contacts.

I have been very vigilent of my msn contacts since i was hacked via a trojan sent back door, last year. The "hacker" had been priming me with questions which was to find the answer for my security question, wasnt until i blocked this contact that i knew they had taken control of my account as my msn then signed out on its own and a little icon came up saying i was signed in on a different location, friends then told me my display name had then changed to something im not even gonna repeat . Another friend of mine was able to trace their IP and it was an american one, ( this to date is all i know ) my friend whom i thought was in conversation with at the time has now got her account back with contacts in tact ( thank the lord ).

hi and to the site , good to hear you got sorted out in the end , got to be super careful by the sounds of it

[ceejaydee]

yeah but u trust those uve been chatting with ( about a year ) and collegues with on a chatroom as moderator/helper of new chatters , its just the eejits that do this that sicken me cos they obviously get some weird kick from it, esp as it was so amature and low hack to do

[ikthius]

Originally Posted by AndrewJames

Anywhere in particular??


I notice though with my MSN and its worrying me now, everytime I click e-mail when I get one it ALWAYS, takes me to a login page to enter my password, I am using a new .co.uk address, and not many know it, and I have it on auto sign in because I am sole user of this laptop.

I still get this, I think it is more of a problem with MSN, just don't add it again and go back, you are still logged in, and try another link into your mail via, the MY MSN, this works for me without putting in another password.

ceejaydee: Now I can understand how it happened, thte hacker was asking question about your secret question, then maybe this might help people arrange a more secret question like what is your ex girl/boyfriends middle name, cause no one should ever ask a question like that and if they do then alarm bells should be ringing in your head.

I hope that you got everything sorted.

ik

[ceejaydee]

IK
i'm hoping i have too, still waiting to hear back from msn as to whether or not i get my account back, but im kinda ok with the one i have as ive already got back the non "chat" friends that i had on there , and the chat ones are easy enough to get back too but its just so damn infuriating

[ikthius]

yeah I know, but because of this you will probably be more weary of it now.

good luck

ik

[greencreeper]

Cyber-space is a great enabler - sadly, it enables the nutters as well. A friend had his account hacked - I ended up talking to some weirdo who asked questions about my dress and where I lived. I knew it wasn't him and didn't reveal any personal information. I texted him and he doesn't have Internet access at the moment. I guess it was a cyber cafe that compromised him - always change the login email address when you're done.

[AndrewJ]

Personally myself I set a secret question but instead of the name or dob to be entered, I always put a random code with letters numbers, makes them asking for secret question stuff a little harder

[nffc]

Originally Posted by AndrewJames

Personally myself I set a secret question but instead of the name or dob to be entered, I always put a random code with letters numbers, makes them asking for secret question stuff a little harder

Should be watertight- write it down on some paper rather than storing it on your PC just to be on the safe side.

The only way in is via guessing password or secret answer- and if you make that as hard as possible then it's better- also avoid signing in on PCs other than your own!

As I pointed out when it appeared a couple of months back, MSN recently added a secondary email detail but that's only being used to send reset instructions if you can't remember secret answer. Which I feel is the wrong way round, reset instructions should be sent to the secondary email instead of the secret question route (which necessitates hacking two accounts, if one's more secure - I have a couple that SMS reset instructions - then it's an awful lot harder). MSN being muppet-esque obviously didn't realise. I thought about emailing them but the muppets probably wouldn't get the message anyway.

[AndrewJ]

I have also noticed now because certain threads I am signed to get email asap someome replies, and i have noticed it often now asks for me to enter my password, can only assume this is another security thing, to stop people who leave room, having other accessing there email box.

P.s using msn 7 Beta with msn plus 3.4beta for it and some patches and plug ins works nice but would like some more notification and a little option to remove all the fancy visual stuff.

I like runnnig things in basic form and no frills, why waste ram and cpu just to make desktop look good, ( unless you want it to be impressive perhaps )

[fatboymike]

Erm i was ust wondering is it illegal to get sumthing to boot people out of group convos, and if it isnt where can i find it?

[nffc]

Originally Posted by fatboymike

Erm i was ust wondering is it illegal to get sumthing to boot people out of group convos, and if it isnt where can i find it?

Don't know on either count but couldn't you just set up a new group convo and use that?

[welshwiz27]

Hi everyone i think msn hacking is great I have hacked 15 people before and I'm now on my 16th .I can't wait till my next victim I have decided it's going to be my best friend and I chose him because he won't suspect a thing.

[Paul K]

Originally Posted by welshwiz27

Hi everyone i think msn hacking is great I have hacked 15 people before and I'm now on my 16th .I can't wait till my next victim I have decided it's going to be my best friend and I chose him because he won't suspect a thing.

Is that because you are a L33T H4X0R or because you're an idiot? How is hacking your friends account clever or a good idea?

[Raistlin]

Anybody else hear the clippety clop of trotters crossing the bridge that this idiot is sat under?

Or the sound of the boot hitting his ar*e as he gets ejected from the forum