Cops: Hacker posted stolen X-rated pics on Faceboo

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Cops: Hacker posted stolen X-rated pics on Facebook


IDG News Service - A 23-year-old California man was expected to appear in court Tuesday, after police say he broke into the Web mail accounts of more than 3,000 women and posted sexually explicit images of many of them on Facebook.

George Samuel Bronk was arrested Friday following an investigation involving federal authorities and the California Highway Patrol's Computer Crimes Investigation Unit. He is set to be arraigned Tuesday afternoon in Sacramento County Court.

Investigators were tipped off after a Connecticut woman contacted local police saying that someone had posted sexually explicit photographs of her to her Facebook page. The photos had apparently been taken from a hacked Web mail account.
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how many people are too stupid to notice there pw got reset ?

The case shows how the information stored on social media sites can be misused, and ultimately turned against victims. Police believe that Bronk broke into about 3,200 Web mail accounts by guessing the answers to password reset questions used by services such as Gmail, Yahoo Mail and Microsoft's Hotmail. "He didn't know any of them; he just apparently had a lot of time on his hands," Dixon said. "He would just search Facebook, look at females, and glean information."

He allegedly found the sexually explicit photos stored in the Web mail accounts, and then used his control over the victim's email address to access Facebook.
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after all you get a email stating as much ......... :buttkick:
 
SD1492

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Chasey_Lane said:
If your PW is reset, how exactly are you supposed to log in and see the "reset" email?
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Because when you reset your password an automatic email is sent to your email on file with most web sites stating that your password has been reset, if you did not request for your password to be reset please contact .... At least I always get those emails.
 
Chasey_Lane

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SD1492 said:
Because when you reset your password an automatic email is sent to your email on file with most web sites stating that your password has been reset, if you did not request for your password to be reset please contact .... At least I always get those emails.
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BUT... if your password is reset... say on Yahoo!, and your only email is a Yahoo! account, how would you know it has been reset?

If you're unable to log in because the password doesn't work, you could probably reset it (again). But initially you would have no way of knowing someone hacked your system. :shrug:
 
Pete

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Chasey_Lane said:
BUT... if your password is reset... say on Yahoo!, and your only email is a Yahoo! account, how would you know it has been reset?

If you're unable to log in because the password doesn't work, you could probably reset it (again). But initially you would have no way of knowing someone hacked your system. :shrug:
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When you registered for yahoo you had to have used a non yahoo email account.
 
Chasey_Lane

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Pete said:
When you registered for yahoo you had to have used a non yahoo email account.
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I don't remember doing that (but quite possibly I did). About two years ago hubby's ex wife had been logging in to my Yahoo! and Myspace accounts. This went on for months. Each time she'd change the password on me, and each time I'd have to do a reset of my own. I never rec'd an email stating my PW had been changed... not even to another email addy.
 
Pete

Pete

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Chasey_Lane said:
I don't remember doing that (but quite possibly I did). About two years ago hubby's ex wife had been logging in to my Yahoo! and Myspace accounts. This went on for months. Each time she'd change the password on me, and each time I'd have to do a reset of my own. I never rec'd an email stating my PW had been changed... not even to another email addy.
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I have recently gotten them on my yahoo account. I get an email from yahoo on my verizon email. I tried to log in and sure thing, no loggy so I do the password recovery thing which is not terribly painful but a pain that you have to do it.

If they would start summarily executing hackers and virus creators in the town square maybe this crap would stop.
 
BOP

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Aerogal said:
Did I miss something? Didn't these skanks have nude pics in their EMAIL accounts?
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What are you, some kind of conservative trouble-maker!?

Next thing, you'll be talking about personal responsibility!

This fishy post has been reported to Dear Leader, even though he's busy selling us to the Indians and the Chinese - as a muslim, he can't exactly meet with them in China.
 
BadGirl

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Chasey_Lane said:
I don't remember doing that (but quite possibly I did). About two years ago hubby's ex wife had been logging in to my Yahoo! and Myspace accounts. This went on for months. Each time she'd change the password on me, and each time I'd have to do a reset of my own. I never rec'd an email stating my PW had been changed... not even to another email addy.
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SOunds like his ex-wife registered the e-mail. that way SHE knew evertyine you reset the password, and would send her the the new password everytime she asked.
 
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