China Hacked my Gmail!

[Wicky_42]

Many of you will remember that time when China hacked political dissidents and foreign journalists' Gmail accounts, prompting Google to stop censoring itself over there. Well, it turns out that now they've got the hacking bug, they're using it on anyone else too.

I logged in earlier to a warning that my account had an open session in another country and that it was possible it had been hacked. The location of that access? China, four days previously. I feel pissed off and violated - and simultaneously glad that I don't have much useful info saved in my account.

I'd thought that those hackings were out of fashion, but it seems someone in China is keeping the pressure up on Google by targeting their customers and users.

Has anyone else had this or something similar happen to them?

 

[snide_cake]

Yeah I received the same sort of message in my inbox.

At first I only saw the banner stating "we believe that..." before I had clicked away from it and it didn't come back for ages...

Anyways, yeah they showed the IP address and I couldn't be bothered to verify if it really was a Chinese IP. Just changed my password and hoped that my account is disinteresting enough for them to skim-read it and move on.

 

[Hurr Durr Derp]

Yup.

My account was accessed from China three separate times a few days back.

I changed my password and it hasn't happened since, and they didn't actually do anything other than access it, so I'm not too worried.

 

[Blackadder51]

Yeh so did mine.

WTF?

 

[Frontastic]

Same here, changed password and am now just hoping for the best.

 

[BGH122]

Yup.

My account was accessed from China three separate times a few days back.

I changed my password and it hasn't happened since, and they didn't actually do anything other than access it, so I'm not too worried.

Yeah this, I've not been hacked since I changed my password.

Nice to see the Chinese government are still up to their tricks.

 

[Ldude893]

This is why you're better off in Hong Kong.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Ooh, I'm going to send a bunch of fake emails about missile silos now.

Take that, China!

 

[Boneasse]

Same here. It was my alternate e-mail (I use for random subscriptions and such), and thus they didn't get my Bnet account information or anything like that! HAH! I'm at loss how they got it though, since I haven't been on any sites that have keyloggers or the such.

Maybe a gmail-server got hacked?

 

[BGH122]

Same here. It was my alternate e-mail (I use for random subscriptions and such), and thus they didn't get my Bnet account information or anything like that! HAH! I'm at loss how they got it though, since I haven't been on any sites that have keyloggers or the such.

Maybe a gmail-server got hacked?

Yeah I'm guessing it was this since a mass keylogger epidemic is unlikely, though still possible; they could have installed stuff on our systems ages ago but set it to activate keylogging at a specific point in time. Still unlikely though since as soon as it started behaving suspiciously it'd be spotted by antivirus stuff.

 

[gl1koz3]

Man, I love my passwords... Great time to feed 'em some character strength.

 

[Dana22]

And where do you get to see that info about someone logging to your gmail account ?

 

[mikecoulter]

Wow, gmail doesn't seem too secure now...

 

[Kausill]

Yep. Hope this stops soon.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

My Gmail remains untouched by Chinese people.

 

[AngryMongoose]

Mine was hacked from Prussia. No idea what they did.

 

[zfactor]

Mine was not infiltrated by anyone (Chinese or Prussian).

 

[superbatranger]

China hacked mine a few days ago. Oh, they're so silly.

Ooh, I'm going to send a bunch of fake emails about missile silos now.

Take that, China!

Want me to send you the names of some people I know who sell plutonium?