Interesting thing happened yesterday. Yes my Gmail account got broken into. It was not a  nice experience having the mail acccount that you depend upon violated and spammed from. And then embarrasingly having to write to everyone in your contact list to say “Sorry”.

Anyway I digress. . .I found out about the account being compromised when my site lead sent me an email to ask “Did you send this?” and then when I tried to log into my Gmail account it came up with the error “This is not the right password, Access is denied” Several more attempts and it confirmed my suspicions.

Google is quite good in that it has a recovery process to deal with compromised accounts. I won’t go with the semantics but suffice to say that  straight after I found out about my account being compromised I changed my passwords on everything that is important to me. Gmail, my online banking, just to name a few. Who knows what those people would have gone through?

These are some of things that I did. What about you?

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