LiveJournal=OVER

February 7, 2006 14 Comments

OK, that’s it. Some fucker hijacked my account. I happened to be at my PC when the “your password has been changed” email came in, and I was able to change the password again quickly enough that it looks like no harm was done; but this is not cool. No more LJ for me.

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14 Comments

  1. alannakitty February 7, 2006 at 20:02

    What the hell… Why would someone want to hack your LJ?

  2. tricstmr February 7, 2006 at 20:05

    Don’t go!!!

    who will I argue with???

  4. ex_greymaide85 February 7, 2006 at 20:22

    For what it’s worth, there are half a dozen ways someone could have gotten your password that have nothing to do with LiveJournal itself.

    If you leave, I will miss you.

      1. ex_greymaide85 February 7, 2006 at 22:21

        Well, for one, though it’s unlikely, someone could have gotten a keylogger on your system. I believe adware will detect and erase these, but I’m not sure.

        More likely is this scenario: Many services online require you to register. Some quiz-taking sites ask you to create a user name and password, for example. If you’re anything like most people you use the same password for everything. So it’s simply a matter of one of those sites capturing that password and seeing where it works.

        What was your theory? Do you think someone hacked Lj for your password?

  5. toothlesshag February 7, 2006 at 20:40

    You can check out but you can never leave.

    Internet habits are hard to break.

  6. c4bl3fl4m3 February 7, 2006 at 21:16

    It was all me, bitch. 😉

    JK.

  7. noidd February 7, 2006 at 21:28

    You sure it wasn’t a phishing email that you just changed your password to something that they NOW know? 🙂

  8. darkpool February 8, 2006 at 00:10

    So your password was actually changed?

  9. ashanden February 8, 2006 at 02:14

    i will miss you much, there is always myspace, hehe, *hugs

  10. arabel February 8, 2006 at 03:00

    There’s been a wave of hacking across all of lj, actually. My journal was hacked, icons deleted and layout changed. From what I understand, in my case anyway, it was a mozilla-specific exploit involving java-scripting that got the info via my cookie.

    So now, I use a utility to disable java-scripting on lj, bind the cookie to my ip address, and don’t leave lj logged in when I’m done. *shrug*

    It’s sucks, but there you go. There’s info on it from lj here. Seriously, some people are such wankers.

    1. arabel February 8, 2006 at 03:04

      also ps: that was by way of an explaination and an exhortation to stick around. It’s not someone targeting you specifically (probably) – just a wave of haxxors with a grudge against ljabuse. ^^;;

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