Security Breach On Gmail!?
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I received a Spam email yesterday in my Gmail account, with a most interesting header which follows: (Yes I changed my password and contacted the bots at Gmail. Does Gmail care?) 101855 Al [MyLastName] Ga. USA 912-555-1212 [MyEmailAddress] [MyUserName] [MyPassword] 1 0 0 0 chuckcar 0 0 0 74.179.175.18 1/17/2010 21:57 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 2 1/20/2010 10:15 1/18/2010 21:57 3 0 0 0 Stay 3 mins & 43 seconds on the third page and get Instant $7.53 on your Paypal. Details of sender: from Payment Notification sending@thediscountspace.info to "101855 Al [MyLastName] Ga. USA 912-555-1212[MyEmailAddress][MyUserName] [MyPassword] 1 0 0 0 chuckcar 0 0 0 74.179.175.18 1/17/2010 21:57 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 2 1/20/2010 10:15 1/18/2010 21:57 3 0 0 0" 1gratefulal@gmail.com date Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM subject 101855 Al [MyLastName] Ga. USA 912-555-1212 [MyEmailAddress] [MyUserName] [MyPassword] 1 0 0 0 chuckcar 0 0 0 74.179.175.18 1/17/2010 21:57 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 2 1/20/2010 10:15 1/18/2010 21:57 3 0 0 0 Stay 3 mins & 43 seconds on the third page and get Instant $7.53 on your Paypal. mailed-by thediscountspace.info hide details May 2 (1 day ago) TheFortune39Gallery my go-to marketing guy. TheDiscountSpace.info gets a "403/404" error message. 1) Any idea how they obtained such information - and should everyone with Gmail accounts be notified? 2) Is this really no big deal and is it occurring all the time? 3) Should anything be done to get these people? 4) Anyone have any idea what program they are using to flush this information? Thanks in advance for any help in getting this info out, if it seems necessary. Grateful Al
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I received a Spam email yesterday in my Gmail account, with a most interesting header which follows: (Yes I changed my password and contacted the bots at Gmail. Does Gmail care?) 101855 Al [MyLastName] Ga. USA 912-555-1212 [MyEmailAddress] [MyUserName] [MyPassword] 1 0 0 0 chuckcar 0 0 0 74.179.175.18 1/17/2010 21:57 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 2 1/20/2010 10:15 1/18/2010 21:57 3 0 0 0 Stay 3 mins & 43 seconds on the third page and get Instant $7.53 on your Paypal. Details of sender: from Payment Notification sending@thediscountspace.info to "101855 Al [MyLastName] Ga. USA 912-555-1212[MyEmailAddress][MyUserName] [MyPassword] 1 0 0 0 chuckcar 0 0 0 74.179.175.18 1/17/2010 21:57 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 2 1/20/2010 10:15 1/18/2010 21:57 3 0 0 0" 1gratefulal@gmail.com date Sun, May 2, 2010 at 6:14 PM subject 101855 Al [MyLastName] Ga. USA 912-555-1212 [MyEmailAddress] [MyUserName] [MyPassword] 1 0 0 0 chuckcar 0 0 0 74.179.175.18 1/17/2010 21:57 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1/17/2010 21:57 0 0 2 1/20/2010 10:15 1/18/2010 21:57 3 0 0 0 Stay 3 mins & 43 seconds on the third page and get Instant $7.53 on your Paypal. mailed-by thediscountspace.info hide details May 2 (1 day ago) TheFortune39Gallery my go-to marketing guy. TheDiscountSpace.info gets a "403/404" error message. 1) Any idea how they obtained such information - and should everyone with Gmail accounts be notified? 2) Is this really no big deal and is it occurring all the time? 3) Should anything be done to get these people? 4) Anyone have any idea what program they are using to flush this information? Thanks in advance for any help in getting this info out, if it seems necessary. Grateful Al
Do you by chance use the same user name and password for other accounts? It is possible that some other account you have was actually hacked (not gmail) and that account was registered to your gmail account.... Just a thought though. I am thinking gmail is more secured than the things you sign up for using gmail as the account holder (all accounts need email reference of course).
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Do you by chance use the same user name and password for other accounts? It is possible that some other account you have was actually hacked (not gmail) and that account was registered to your gmail account.... Just a thought though. I am thinking gmail is more secured than the things you sign up for using gmail as the account holder (all accounts need email reference of course).
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Collin, I keep different UserNames and Passwords for other Email accounts. I had a situation one time with a PayPal account and it was tied to Yahoo.com. Was told to change my Password on Yahoo as they were the same. I guess it could have been hacked from PayPal then; although I use different passwords for each of those as well. I have to believe they hacked the Gmail account. Thanks for your response! Al