On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jeremy Visser <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:23:18 +1000, Darren Gibbs <[email protected]> > wrote: >> My old email account, [email protected], has been hacked and stolen - >> unfortunately, the mongrel who stole it also changed all the recovery >> information so I can't recover it. > > My suggestion is to fill this form out ASAP. Any of your online accounts > that use [email protected] could reset your password at will. > > <http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/request.py?ara=1>
Done that. Twice. Unfortunately, the b****rd who hacked the account changes all the password recovery questions - which means I am S.O.L - Google says "We can't verify who you are" - Christ, it's been 10 years since I started using Gmail, how am I supposed to remember the date? Or the invite time and date? This is a common problem, apparently (http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/gmail/thread?tid=448bef23d1e8f4f9&hl=en), and Google's security measures, quite frankly, SUCK. You set a password recovery mechanism, and then let it be *changed* without the criteria being met - so if someone hacks your password, they can simply *change* everything which might identify you - and then they say "We can't verify who you are", and you are 100% screwed. If Hotmail didn't suck so badly, I'd move to that. DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
