Bob Hoffnar's email HACKED: DO NOT OPEN EMAILS

Jim Cohen · Post by **Jim Cohen** » 11 Oct 2017 10:29 am

I got a suspicious email seemingly from Bob's email address but wouldn't open the attachment or click on the link in the email. Instead I clicked Reply to ask if it really was Bob or was his account hacked. I quickly got a reply in broken English, so I know it wasn't youBob, and his email has been hacked. Bob, you'd better change your p/w immediately and don't anyone open any unexpected emails from "Bob" until further confirmation of safety.

Jerry Erickson · Post by **Jerry Erickson** » 11 Oct 2017 11:35 am

Thanks,Jim. I just received this email and thought I'd check it out before I opened it.

Bill Ladd · Post by **Bill Ladd** » 11 Oct 2017 11:39 am

I just logged on to report this as well.

Storm Rosson · Post by **Storm Rosson** » 12 Oct 2017 5:57 am

Same here, I d/l it to my virtual drive partition, and looked it over and upon opening the .pdf file, malware bytes blocked the action so it was trashed and deleted.

Bob Hoffnar · Post by **Bob Hoffnar** » 12 Oct 2017 7:18 am

Yea, it looks like they got to everybody I ever emailed. I have cleaned it up and recovered all my files now.

Sorry if it caused any problems out there. A word of warning to everybody. Change your passwords every once in a while and make it harder for the hackers.

The good thing about this is that it turns out Google is very easy to use as a recovery tool. All my contacts on my computer and phone where gone and with just a little digging I got everything back and secured my account.

The hackers only had access for about 30 minutes. But that was enough to make a real mess. It was a bit scary watching my phone take a crap while I was at a meeting. Luckily it was with a computer guy and we stopped what we were doing and blocked the hacker right away.

Mark Greenway · Post by **Mark Greenway** » 13 Oct 2017 5:33 pm

I got that email.