Source: here
Cybersecurity is a very important subject nowadays, and you can take it more or less serious, but keep in mind, the less attention you pay to it, the more you're exposing yourself.
This is not at all my usual kind of content, but, shit happens. More exactly, a moron decided to break my university account and then using the email started to send messages to the same account with my password for that account in the description. I blacked out the address and password, but they were correct.
I've discovered this randomly, mostly because nothing important is ever send to that email, and I very rarely even check this inbox, maybe once or twice a year. Basically, I only use it to upload a homework or enter a course, the inbox is useless.
And that time of year came last night, only because I had to actually check for a mail. At first, this got me by surprise, and I panicked a little bit, thinking about how this might get access to my computer, especially from that address. I'm kinda paranoid on situations like this one, but I was never going to give up to blackmail, especially to free advertisement, lol.
A piece of advice
- Don't ignore your security on the internet, because data is very valuable nowadays, and idiots like the guy that break into my account will use them against you without a second thought.
- Separate your passwords, even if you don't have a unique one for every account, at least have one for each important account
- Use two-factor authentication whenever you can, it might save you
- Always have a back-up account set-up for the mail, because you can lose every account created with that mail, even if you have different passwords for them
- Back-up your data
This wasn't so bad after all, but it made me really level up on security. I changed all my passwords to something more secure to a point when even social engineering will not work on them, and the account that was hacked will not see the light outside a virtual box for the rest of its existence.
As for the guy that tried this scam, I'm sorry for the plants that produce oxygen for you.
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