You hear about them, you watch movies about them, you read about them and the worms and viruses they spitefully unleash on the cyber world, you may have idle chatter with friends about them. But you never for a single moment believe that you would be a target for them.
Darn hackers - movies usually depict these nerds bent over a keyboard, obsessively click click clicking away, accessing the most restricted sites, emptying bank accounts, setting in motion chains of events that could end in catastrophes and, sometimes in real life do.
Is anyone safe from these single-minded soulless beings?
Certainly not I, as I have been hacked.
More precisely, my gmail and Facebook accounts. Gmail contained lots of personal contact with family and friends but nothing of importance to anyone but me. Facebook had all my games, which I have labored hard to get to the levels I am at!!!! LOL
It was here in the morning and gone in the evening.
I was baffled and just kept trying to log in to FB, which kept telling me "this email address is not linked to any account....." So, I tried gmail and, heck, it told me either username or password was wrong.
Then it hit me (yes, I can be a tad slow at (rare) times). A bloody hacker has done this.
Two days later, I reclaimed my gmail account. By the way, IDs etc are not proof of ownership of the account; you have to prove you are the rightful owner by providing information about your account e.g. frequently used email addresses (because they come up as soon as you key in a few letters, we tend to become lazy about remembering them or storing them away in a pin dot of our brain).
All this happened on November 2. To date, Facebook has yet to give me back my account, which is really frustrating. My crops have died, my food is spoilt, I have failed to complete missions. A total disaster.
Come on Facebook, get your act together and give me back what is mine and mine alone.
As for those darn hackers, I wish they would get a life and let us get on with ours.
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