My Gmail Got Hacked? - Hardware & Software

I just got this random e-mail. [IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/wtf12345678910.png[/IMG] I translated it using Google: [quote]Business Cooperation Sincere cooperation! Acting on behalf of my company offers to open: advertising, design, consulting, leasing, services, domestic and international air transport and other tax bills. If needed, please contact: 13528795161 (Mr. Wang) QQ: 1079 0179 62 E-mail: [email]1079017962@qq.com[/email] Baolong Company[/quote] Apparently my Gmail account is being used to send Chinese spam? I don't get how this is possible. I don't sign up for anything with my gmail (that's what my shitty hotmail account is for) and I've never been dumb enough to give out my password or anything. Just in case I just changed all of my passwords, but I'm still kind of freaking out about this. In my sent messages there are four e-mails like this. Two of them returned errors like this one but the other two went through. I've checked some of their help pages, but none of the issues address my problem. Annoyingly I can't figure out how to get in touch with Google about it. I don't want them to shut down my account for sending spam or anything, and the "Report Bug" button isn't working in Gmail. Any ideas?

At the bottom of the page, you should see something like this: [quote] Last account activity: 29 minutes ago on this computer. Details[/quote]If you click the details, it brings up a window displaying the IPs that have been logged into your gmail account. If you see any from China, that pretty much confirms it. As long as you changed your password, you should be fine.

All the "last account activity" entries were definitely legitimate. The weird thing is that the FAQ says that they usually label these mails as Spam, but these showed up in my "Sent" folder.

[QUOTE=Larikang;22758238]All the "last account activity" entries were definitely legitimate. The weird thing is that the FAQ says that they usually label these mails as Spam, but these showed up in my "Sent" folder.[/QUOTE] Because it was sent, not received.

Change your password. Maybe you signed up for a site and they took your info?

Happened to my sister too. Weird.

It seems china are hacking random email accounts, this is the third dude on FP in two months.

[QUOTE=johanz;22758329]Because it was sent, not received.[/QUOTE] Some spammers "bounce" mail off of your account so that it looks it was sent by you but actually wasn't. These show up in your Spam folder and not your Sent. I've had these for a while, but none of them have ever made it through the Spam filters I guess.

hehe mr. wang

[QUOTE=Larikang;22759018]Some spammers "bounce" mail off of your account so that it looks it was sent by you but actually wasn't. These show up in your Spam folder and not your Sent. I've had these for a while, but none of them have ever made it through the Spam filters I guess.[/QUOTE] Maybe these didn't bounce but were sent directly?

[QUOTE=Yumyumbublegum;22759060]hehe mr. wang[/QUOTE] Chinese people have fun names: [IMG]http://bj0.org/pictures/DatHo.jpg[/IMG]

Let me add myself to the list of folks that got their gmail hacked by ze chinese about 10 days ago. [quote] Unknown China (112.95.74.33) Jun 11 Unknown China (112.95.78.162) Jun 11 Unknown China (112.95.77.13) Jun 12 [/quote]

Hey, they are sending emails right? Write a Email, translate it, then send it, fuck with those Chinese hackers. Also, My Gmail is safe right now, but, i'm going to transfer all my billing and crap that has paypal and stuff to my websites emailbox.

My gmail suddenly stopped, first it said it was with another account but when I tried to reset the password it said no gmail account was connected with this email adress. Also, send a translated email.

Gawd this happening to me too and this is the third thread I saw. Fuck.

This is thread number 4 on the issue. I posted pictures of it in mine [url]http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=957170[/url]

Unsettlingly, I only just got the warning that my account was accessed from China. I logged out all my other accounts and changed my password again.

[QUOTE=Larikang;22832326]Unsettlingly, I only just got the warning that my account was accessed from China. I logged out all my other accounts and changed my password again.[/QUOTE] send google an email or sth, so that they don't delete your account...

[QUOTE=John the Gr8;22835360]send google an email or sth, so that they don't delete your account...[/QUOTE] I don't think they will. They say that they keep a record of where you "usually" log in from, so they can tell when your account is being used by someone else.