I Was Hacked!!!!

It's been quite a while since I visited my blog. I couldn't bring myself to start blogging again. Even my scrapbooking is experiencing it's own El Nino dry spell.

Early this year, both my Yahoo! and Facebook accounts were hacked by someone who had nothing better to do. I lost all my contacts and couldn't access my accounts. The hacker wrote a letter to all my contacts claiming that I was "trapped" in London with no money, no credit card and unpaid hotel bills. This bogus "me" then asked help from readers by sending $1,000!!! Imagine that!

Even worse was this hacker claimed my FB account, went online and even chatted with my friends. The hacker chanced upon my daughter then started chatting with her. She got so scared that she immediately signed off. The gall!! I immediately contacted Yahoo! and FB but unfortunately, they couldn't (or I would say WOULDN'T) do anything about it. Up to NOW!

I had to temporarily keep this blog private because my Yahoo! ID included an icon that directs them straight here. I was thinking that if they couldn't access this blog then they would think twice as to the legitimacy of that email asking for money.

Well, life goes on and I've opened a new Yahoo! and account. I've also opened a gmail account as a back-up email. I am still overwhelmed by the task of having to reconstruct the addresses of my previous contacts. Oh well, I guess one thing at a time. Oh. btw, maybe you can think of changing your password to an alpha-numeric one right after reading this. And try to have different passwords for the sites that you visit. You never know when you'll get hacked....

p.s. Thank you again to ALL you people who cared enough and informed me thru text and phone that my account was hacked. I must have received 1,001 calls that fateful night. The first one who called me was April Lim. Thank you!!!