thats ingenious, hiding in plain sight
On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 4:27 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
> I always use 12345678!
>
> The bang at the always throws them off.
>
>
> bp
> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>
> On 9/8/2025 2:15 PM, Steve Jones wrote:
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> based on your recent shady antics i think its you. Are you the Google
> bill? do you have my passwords? is this what its all been about?
>
> dude, its Password1, its always been Password1
>
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Darn good question. Exactly who is/are the intermediaries? How many
>> hands(eyes) do your credentials pass through?
>>
>> bp
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 9/8/2025 10:59 AM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
>>
>> This is why I hate all the sites that say “or log in with Google”. Like
>> paywalled content sites. What does that even mean, log in with Google?
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* AF <[email protected]> <[email protected]> *On
>> Behalf Of *Bill Prince
>> *Sent:* Monday, September 8, 2025 12:10 PM
>> *To:* [email protected]
>> *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] OT: Gmail filters
>>
>>
>>
>> The history did not show anything that looked even remotely suspicious,
>> and this account has no forwarding rules. There was one filter that I put
>> in so long ago, I don't remember when it was. This new filter just appeared
>> out of nowhere (at least to me).
>>
>> I use Thunderbird most of the time, and rarely use web mail. The one
>> other activity that I'd been doing in the time frame was archiving a bunch
>> of older emails to clear space, but I did that in Thunderbird. In fact, I
>> thought I'd accidentally created a filter in Thunderbird (that's what I
>> used to archive the old emails), but after I did the archiving, I purged
>> the Thunderbird filters).
>>
>> bp
>>
>> <part15sbs{at}gmail{dot}com>
>>
>> On 9/8/2025 9:15 AM, Steve Jones wrote:
>>
>> you can look in your login history to see if your account was accessed
>> from elsewhere, also just for kicks check your forwarding rules to make
>> sure there isnt a forwarder set up
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Sep 6, 2025 at 5:36 PM Bill Prince <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Just a few days ago, I changed all my google account passwords (in case
>> you hadn't heard, there was a breach of ~~ 2.5 billion accounts).
>>
>> As is probably the case with most of you, I have several google accounts
>> for different purposes (including this one). So I went through them one
>> by one. Just changed the passwords, and nothing else.
>>
>> Right after that, all my AF incoming started going directly to trash
>> (not spam). I couldn't for the life of me figure out why until I checked
>> filters, and somehow a filter had been applied that directed all
>> incoming to the inbox was sent to trash.
>>
>> I did not do that, and I don't know how it happened. My SO thinks I was
>> hacked, but I have a hard time believing that.
>>
>> None of my other google accounts was affected.
>>
>>
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