F'in A.

I guess it was inevitable...


Bangkok, Thailand

someone logged in as me under my email and sent spam to the top 9 contacts i have in my address book. get this: i only have it setup on webmail - no virus (to my knowledge) will mass mail if my computer's infected.

i only noticed it when my spam folder had a few messages in it - 6 return to senders. one was an ex-co-worker. so i logged into his mail and sure enough, my junk mail. upon viewing the full headers, i found the IP the message originated from: 118.173.34.12 to which i found belonged to Bangkok, Thailand.

So my assumption is someone compromised my password at 7:35 today and a bot sent some spam messages. my password is now changed (actually, i've been using the same password for about 13 years now!) and i'll be monitoring it for a lil while... if you first name starts with A then you got a message [not] from me :(

FYI: i reviewed my history. i thougth "maybe i clicked something around that time and it did it then". negative. i was googling at 6:14, then didn't touch the pc until 7:36. so when the email was sent at 7:35: it wasn't initiated by me. however, my password was only 5 lower case letters long [now it's letters numbers caps and longer) - so i still stand by someone cracked the password and sent it out.