Email Hacked

Last week my email connected to my website was hacked. I'm sure I'm to blame, but not sure how it happened. In any event if I adversely impacted anyone in my address book I am very sorry. It took me well into the next day to get my email account back on line as AT&T suspended that account. All is well with the world again, but here's the culprit of this hack. You would have received an email from me with the following message:

wow this is crazy you should give it a look http://www.wa15news.net/jobs/?read=0791408 or;
this is intense you should check this out http://www.nb15news.net/jobs/?read=0776072

If you clicked on this link I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be a good thing. In any event this site sent out a lot of emails from my account.

I checked with WOT (Web of Trust) and found that this site is caustic:

Warning: Quarantined. IP/Hostname/Website found involved in various Dangerous/Suspicious activities.

• Attackers who try to spy or remotely control others' computers by means such Microsoft remote terminal, SSH, Telnet or shared desktops.
• Threats for email servers or users: spiders/bots, account hijacking, etc.
• Sites spreading virus, trojans, spyware, etc. or just being used by them to let their authors know that a new computer has been infected.
• Threats for servers: exploits, fake identities/agents, DDoS attackers, etc.
• Threats for mobile systems: virus and trojans spreading, smartphone data-harvesting etc.
• Port scans, which are the first step towards more dangerous actions.
• Malicious P2P sharers or bad peers who spread malware, inject bad traffic or share fake archives.
  

For security reasons it has been placed in a preventive Quarantine status. Any operation involved with it, is strongly discouraged.

Reason of the Quarantine: Involved on spreading of an huge quantity of UCE/UBE messages. Data obtained from a reliable listing service."

Next I wanted to know who was assigned to this website and here's what I found out.

Service Provided By: Center of Ukrainian Internet Names
Website: http://www.ukrnames.com
Contact: +380.577626123

Domain Name: WA15NEWS.NET

Creation Date: 12-Apr-2012
Modification Date: 12-Apr-2012
Expiration Date: 12-Apr-2013

Domain servers in listed order:
ns1.qfsinerfssera.ru
ns2.qfsinerfssera.ru
ns3.qfsinerfssera.ru

Registrant:
Olga Golubeva
ul. Pushkina 98 56
Barnaul, 656000
RUSSIAN FEDERATION
+7.4955467812

Bless her heart.

A Scare

Have you ever lost your blog? You didn't delete it but it just disappeared. That's what happened to me Wednesday morning. First I got an email from my pal Barb at iPhoneographi asking me if I'd sent a particular email. I told her that I hadn't sent that email and she responded by telling me that my email account had been hacked. Sure enough it had.

Hubby got into our email account and changed the password on my blog email. Then I went into Google Reader and reset my password then I could change my password. When I got finished my Google account was back on line which meant my blog was back online. It was frightening to see that your blog was no longer on your dashboard. I'd already backed up my blog in several places, but still it's disheartening to lose your blog. I hate email hackers/spammers. They are getting a one way ticket to Hades.

I also have several other blogs under my control that belong to Mike Golch. I've also backed up these blogs so don't worry Mike. They didn't mess with your email, just my email.