Email hacked and flooded, HELP!

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**** Russians.

[Keith]

What do your email and bank have to do with each other? Hopefully not sharing passwords. Or do you think they may try to reset your bank password?

Does your email have to be hacked to receive emails like this? Seems like they could sign you up to receive emails without actually having your email passwords. Just curious.

I would make sure you have multi factor authentication set up on all your financial sites. This requires a text in addition to password to access. Also consider LastPass to make your passwords stronger (password manager).

I actually don't think my email password was compromised. I have a program that stores and generates passwords that I've been using for a couple of years. My Gmail password is about 30 characters long with all kinds of special characters used. Most of my banking is the same way. However I still have a few that have been used across multiple web sites, most are not money related, just web site logins.
I canceled my debit cards just to be a little safer. I want to do all I can to keep anyone from emptying my account.
I will set up multi factor authentication for those that don't already have it set up.

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[Hoggslayer]

Well, lets hope you had a little more imagination when you picked passwords, than you did when picking your screen name.

[bermise]

it happened to me at the first of the summer on Hotmail. I literally got about 5,000 emails the first day. I dumped my inbox about 3 days and then it slowed down to a hundred or less. Now, its like a 10 a day. I have unsubscribed to a bunch, but honestly, i dont know if there is an easier way or not.

Same thing happened to my hotmail in May

[Milkfisher]

See if you can change you e-mail setting to only receive e-mails from people in your e-mail list. That will slow them down for now at least.

Select all unread....move to spam??

[SmTx]

https://haveibeenpwned.com/ may show you where your accounts were compromised

[Thetoe]

This happened to me recently! Someone hacked one of my shopping accounts and put fraudulent orders in under my name. They then email bombed me just like what happened to you so that I would not notice the purchase emails.

DO NOT SELECT ALL AND DELETE! It sucks but you have to delete each email one by one until you find the account that was hacked. Then call customer service for that account and have them cancel the order and change your password.

It'll take a long time to unsubscribe and block all the email lists you're now on. I'm down to just a couple spam emails a day that I have to continue blocking.

Good luck!

[Tony Pic]

That bites Kieth. Hope ya get it fixed.
Just tell them you are a Nigerian prince and need their bank acct number to transfer $10,000,000
Good Luck.

[hopedale]

Yes, it's SPAM however it was requested by someone, not me. I've noticed 2 or 3 different names that they have used when signing me up for the subscriptions, and stuff. None are my name. One is like sagrhsualrnva, not even a real name.

I called my bank and canceled my debit cards. They suggest closing my account and opening a different one.

Doesn't sound like you've been hacked, but someone signed you up for every dam thing.

Agree changing passwords and such is a good idea.

Wish I had more info on how to get Google's help.

[Texas Grown]

There are skimming programs that pick up old emails and allow the skimmer to use them as an address to send out mass mailings. It's usually associated with malware. But could be used to access sights for what ever benefits them at the moment. I also know Yahoo servers got hacked a couple years ago and it affected a couple million accounts. But they had not seen any trace of it till recently. Also, once someone registrars an account, what's to keep them from changing their personal email to your email addy to provide a no-trace? I'm sure a server tech could prob look at the tracks and tell what the previous email was before it was changed.



Also, look for an email in one of the other folders besides your spam or trash. And see if there is an unrecognizable e-mail in one (if you don't have a zillion categorized folders). It may look like it's been read or unread. But may have links in it to other places you've never been. That e-mail may be the skimmer email. A lot of security systems software will sometimes miss those emails.

[Keith]

I've spent the last 5 hours changing all my financial passwords, and deleting some emails, checking credit cards for unknown charges, etc. I still have a long way to go. So far it looks like about 6,000 junk emails, and going up every minute.

[Keith]

I had 21,316 emails in my SPAM filter when I looked today. It's automatically emptied every 30 days, so I'm sure 21k of those were from this attack. I'll probably have to close and delete the account before this is over.

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