http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20120215-245/when-a-hacker-deletes-all-your-gmail-messages/ By Elinor Mills InSecurity Complex CNet News October 13, 2011 Many people are concerned about hacked e-mail accounts (even celebrities), but what about when several years worth of your digital file cabinet are deleted, say, by a malicious intruder? That happened to Deb Fallows six months ago, and her husband, author James Fallows, wrote a riveting account of their ordeal for The Atlantic that makes for fascinating reading. His words of advice are: use strong, unique passwords on important important online accounts; take advantage of Google's two-step verification service; and back up our cloud-based data on our own. Oh, and act fast. Deleted messages are purged from the Trash folder after about a month. In a nutshell, someone somehow got a hold of his wife's Gmail password and sent scary "Mugged in Madrid" messages to her contacts (including ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who sent a "terse" e-mail to the author with the subject line of "Deb's e-mail has been hacked"), diverted her incoming messages to an outside account and pretended to be her in e-mail exchanges with concerned and or dubious friends and family. The hacker then deleted six years worth of correspondence. Poof! [...] _____________________________________________________ Subscribe to InfoSec News - www.infosecnews.org http://www.infosecnews.org/mailman/listinfo/isnReceived on Fri Oct 14 2011 - 01:22:04 PDT
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