the account was blocked by unlimitel yesterday after it was hacked  (which was 
good by the way)

i didn't ask them to unblock it. so i don't know if the account is still 
hacked. 

to Stephan's  point, i probably should reset portal password as well.


but, my question is,  why always unlimitel?  I am using other ITSP, they don't 
have problem for last 2-3 years.


Roger


On 2013-01-21, at 4:24 PM, Stéphan Monette <[email protected]> wrote:

> Was your account still hacked after resetting your passwords?
> 
> On 2013-01-21, at 4:22 PM, Roger Si <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I used 3CX soft phone version 1.1.5 running on iPhone 5 on Fido's LTE 
>> network to make some phone calls before the account is comprised yesterday 
>> evening..
>> 
>> of course, I reset passwords in unlimited portal afterwards.
>> 
>> 
>> Roger
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 2013-01-21, at 3:54 PM, Mike - QTI <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Stephan, Very good points!
>>> 
>>> Also you should reverse search your IP in http://www.shodanhq.com/ . I had
>>> a user who did not change the admin password on their ATA and it was
>>> exposed to the internet. So hackers just went to the ATA web maint page,
>>> used the default credentials and then scrape the account information. Then
>>> used the account to call cell phones in Moscow. Found his IP and device in
>>> the Shodan Database.
>>> 
>>> Mike
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 3:36 PM, Stéphan Monette
>>> <[email protected]>wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Roger,
>>>> 
>>>> Just to make sure I didn't left my list of userids and passwords in some
>>>> file with Google or somewhere else, I would first login into the web portal
>>>> and reset my SIP and IAX passwords.
>>>> 
>>>> I've seen a lot of people with their Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail accounts
>>>> hacked without them knowing about it. Sometimes; the hackers are getting
>>>> the userids and passwords from the saved emails you have left in your Gmail
>>>> or other free email services! They usually look for bank account data, but
>>>> they would sell any good information to anyone willing to pay for it
>>>> including SIP accounts info!
>>>> 
>>>> In the past when I was working on the Unlimitel systems, we made sure the
>>>> username and passwords could not be guessed. We even stopped sending
>>>> passwords by email! And we would still see users having their passwords
>>>> stolen because they shared a Google drive (docs back then) with someone
>>>> else who got their google account hacked!!!!
>>>> 
>>>> After Primus took over, they even went an extra step by blocking any IP
>>>> that would fail to register a SIP account to stop hackers from guessing
>>>> Unlimitel SIP passwords.
>>>> 
>>>> The web portal is designed so that your browser do not cache any infos!
>>>> The passwords are not even listed in TEXT on the web portal to make sure
>>>> customers with some sort of virus or malware could spy on your data! So if
>>>> the hackers were able to make calls using your SIP credentials, this means
>>>> they had the right data on hand and never got blocked because they never
>>>> failed the SIP authentication.
>>>> 
>>>> So I would suggest to reset your passwords (using the web portal) and do
>>>> not save your passwords list anywhere on your computer or cloud storage
>>>> services.
>>>> 
>>>> That should stop them. If not, use a different tools or softphone!
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 2013-01-21, at 3:20 PM, Mark Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> Roger,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a chance the phone was compromised?
>>>>> 
>>>>> You didn't say what phone or app you were using.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Android phones seem to have a swiss cheese security model, and many apps
>>>> are not always as they seem.....
>>>>> I'm not sure the iPhones are much better.
>>>>> I've automatically discounted Windows phones.... :-)
>>>>> 
>>>>> I have a remote ATA with Unlimitel, and I haven't had such a problem....
>>>> yet.
>>>>> 
>>>>> /M
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 1/21/2013 9:33 AM, Yajie wrote:
>>>>>> this has been pain in the ass. as soon as I make some international
>>>> calls
>>>>>> for several days, my account will be hacked, hacker made a lot of calls
>>>> to
>>>>>> high rate country in no time and my account will be blocked by
>>>> Unlimitel.
>>>>>> this happened at least 5 times in last two years. my friend has same
>>>> issue
>>>>>> too. interestingly, i didn't use asterisk to make calls recently, but a
>>>>>> SIP softphone on my cell phone. so there is no way hacker can hack
>>>> into my
>>>>>> asterisk. I know unlimtel has much restrict password rule than any other
>>>>>> ITSP i used. but only unlimitel got hacked every time . Do you guys know
>>>>>> why? or i really should abandon Unlimitel's ship? Thanks!
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Roger
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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