Stupid fucking cookie grabbing bullshit. Yeah, I’m a fuckign moron. “Gee, what’s this?” ::click:: I should have known better. But it’s fucking hard to tell sometimes before you know what a website is what it’s going to be. I feel stupid enough about it, and I’m beating myself up 47 times over, so don’t you start it too. Last time I ever click on a link in someone’s sig that tells me the stuff on the other end is funny.
I have no way of knowing for sure what got grabbed and where it got sent. So I have to work on the fucking assumption that everything I have used over the internet since last I cleared the cache is in someone’s hands now. So I have about 47 phone calls I need to make. for one credit card, and my SSN that I had to use for my student loans. Just fucking peachy.
It wouldn’t be as bad if I knew for sure what had gone where. But as huge a pain in the ass as this is, especially if in reality no one has anything to use from it, it would be worse to not do anything and have someone run up $14,000 debt in my name. But it’s still a giant fucking pain in the ass.
I’m too tired and stressed right now to properly phrase some really fun vulgar phrases. But I hope whoever the fuck is responsible for this meets up with some angry drunken bears who don’t carry lube.
That sucks. Make sure you report it immediately to the police and call the three credit reporting bureaus to report it to them. This may save you some problems later.
Yeah. I have a list of credit bureaus and my credit card company and the FTC and all that. I’ve started some of it now, it’ll most likely get finished tomorrow because I’m halfway to unconscious now.
Half of this is just pissing me off more though, because it keeps going on about stolen cards, which doesn’t help when it’s just the numbers.
I would quickly cancel your credit cards and make sure no one can take out a credit card on your name. Dumb idiotic people. Why do people have to ruin other people’s lives like this? Geez people. Grow up you theives and get a real job like the rest of us. Maybe you can get ahold of your isp and see where that info was sent.
Did this happen here at the dope? If so, please report it so that no one else falls for this.
I am kind of confused about this thing.
What exactly happened? How can one tell if something was grabbed? I ask because I am not familiar with this and don’t want this to happen to myself or someone else.
Sometimes you can’t tell anything happened until things start showing up in your credit report, so I guess it could be a lot worse. This one the URL was a little off what it should have been for the site it claimed to be, not that I noticed soon enough to help, and then when that got me suspicious I started asking around and the cookie grabber was what I ended up with. Spybot caught traces of some cookie related thing, but not an actual program, and couldn’t give me any information on it.
I still don’t know for sure anything happened. Nothing was on my credit card yet when I cancelled it. But since there’s even a chance someone got something relevant, I still figure it’s better to go through this now than to chance it.
Keeping up to date on windows updates will help a lot. It keeps out the ones based on glitches that have been fixed anyway.
Which is both part of why I already feel fucking stupid, and part of why I’m not 100% sure someone got it. I’m not 100% up to date with the fixes, but I’m not that far behind. So there are some that could do it, but not nearly all of them.
The not knowing is the worst part. I could be doing all this for nothing. It’s just that there’s no way for me to be sure unless stuff starts happening, and I’d rather not wait for that.
And here I am again, forgetting parts. Add to the third paragraph, “assuming the patches actually fixed it in the first place, since it’s not like one’s never left a hole before, and a lot of what I found doesn’t sound real solid that the fixes have absolutely fixed things with this issue”
It wasn’t identity theft - at most, they accessed your account information.
Identity theft is accessing your personal information (social security #, mother’s maiden name, address, etc.) and using it to a) apply for credit or b) taking over one of your established accounts.
If you did not release those pieces of information, all you would really need to do is cancel the compromised account #.
