Mike Beede writes: > >> As many of you may already know, Low End Mac's PayPal account was >> hijacked over the weekend. Someone using the email address >> "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" managed to hack my password, add his/her address to >> the account, remove my access to the account, and break the bank. > >Well. That sucks. While I applaud your efforts to reveal the >cretin, I expect that you won't get enought evidence to prosecute. >If you can interest law enforcement in the matter....
I have filed a report with the Internet Fraud Complaint Center, a joint project of the FBI and the National White Collar Crime Center. (I think the FTC may be involved as well. The amount of funds in question and the interstate nature of the crime make it a federal matter, not something the local police department would be able to do much (if anything) about. I hope to get more info from PayPal once they received my signed and notarized affadavit. >I was wondering how someone would get your non-dictionary password. It wasn't in the dictionary, but it wasn't sufficiently obscure. Frustrating thing is, I have a very good, very secure 6 character password using upper and lower case plus numbers, but PayPal insisted on something longer, so I had to come up with something on the fly. It wasn't nearly as good. I learned my lesson. -- Dan Knight, president, Cobweb Publishing, Inc. <http://cobwebpublishing.com> <http://lowendmac.com> <http://digital-views.com> <http://digigraphica.com> <http://lowendpc.com> <http://reformed.net> "As for Unix being 'inflexible,' 'expensive,' and 'complex,' we feel those are terms much better suited to the closed and proprietary world of Windows." Sun -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
