Buck531 Posted January 3, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 (edited) Sumbitch!, I looked at my bank account and they fucking transferred $527 out of my account. Fucking shit. Paypal said on Saturday when they called that they stopped payment. God damnit. I just got paid and I got bills to pay. Edit - called paypal. They just said the money was transferred into the paypal account and I was able to transfer it back into my bank. Sucks it's going to take 3-4 days. Oh, the guy on from paypal said that the person who hacked my shit logged into a computer from Colorado. FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU! Edited January 3, 2011 by Buck531 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3.1cutlass Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Oh, the guy on from paypal said that the person who hacked my shit logged into a computer from Colorado. Could be using a proxy or something to make it appear that way. Who knows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iwashmycar Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 That sucks it posted through. Had that happen to one of my Huntington Accounts. Luckily Huntington is way more customer friendly than PayPal, and pretty much reversed it immediately Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC K9 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 That sucks it posted through. Had that happen to one of my Huntington Accounts. Luckily Huntington is way more customer friendly than PayPal, and pretty much reversed it immediately +1. Visa shut my ish down ASAP. They denied the transaction and called me ASAP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lcz06 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 This makes me not want to use Paypal. People are :asshole:'s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AWW$HEEET Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 This makes me not want to use Paypal. People are :asshole:'s. Paypal has become worse and worse over they years. Sadly they have a stranglehold on the online money transaction space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 Thieves are skimming credit card transactions by hacking into stores and restaurants networks through their WiFi. It's a pretty big issue. You guys have no idea how easy this is to do. Cheap 1000mw wifi receiver + high gain antenna = 40 open wifi connections on campus. Could probably get a card number in under an hour if I was the illegal scheming type. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 You can setup PayPal to use SMS verification for free. You logon to PayPal and then click the SMS button. They send an SMS to you with a code. You enter that code and then have access to your PayPal account. Makes hacking the account very difficult. Good luck to you getting this figured out! I had paypal's security token on my account for the longest time, then my account was hacked. They suggested I get their security token to increase security. I informed them I had one, phone went silent and I was escalated to top level support right away. They still have NO IDEA how my account got hacked. Paypal is their own problem, they want to be treated like a "bank" but don't want to have to abide by the same securities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
acklac7 Posted January 3, 2011 Report Share Posted January 3, 2011 You guys have no idea how easy this is to do. +1 "l33t haXors" (elite hackers) will take complete control of your computer in ways you never thought possible. Often times they will hit you with a RAT (Remote Access Trojan). Once the RAT has been planted it "calls home" to a hacker allowing him access to everything on your computer. Anytime you visit a Java/Flashed based website you run the risk of your web-browser unknowingly downloading such a Trojan. Once downloaded this Trojan can provide hackers with a direct portal into your computer and everything on it: every word you type can be automatically (and unknowingly) saved & sent to a 3rd party. Everything seen on your desktop they see (or have the ability to see). Picture someone standing over your shoulder watching everything you do on the 'net, then recording every single thing you type & view - this is what "they" do. How it's done: Most hacking involes Java/Flash-based scripts. Most of these scripts embed RAT's (Remote Administration Terminals/ Remote Access Trojans) onto your computer. The Java/Flash side is website-based: I.E. you visit a website/forum and your browser downloads malicious code that infects your computer. The vast majority of these browser-based viruses can be avoided by the use of firefox + the no-script add-on. (http://noscript.net/) Another popular way to embed a RAT is by binding it to another harmless file - such as a .pdf/.avi/.jpg/ "/.anything". When you download & open said file the Trojan will unknowingly run/install, as will the original file. Take most-anything you download off the 'net: picture files (.jpg's), videos(.avi's) music files (.mp3's) - all of them can be infected - I actually got hit with a trojan that was binded to a factory service manual.pdf (hosted on rapidshare) a month or so ago. I do have a virus scanner too. Hackers use programs (crypters) to encrypt viruses such that the best scanners out there won't pick up a thing. I've seen first-hand what some of these guys are doing (and the $ they are making) and trust me when I say this shit is scary. I've always been a windows fan but after the shit i've seen in the past few months i'll never buy a windows-based OS again. Not trying to sound like a bad-ass just trying to give everyone on here the heads-up...If this board wasn't local/closed I wouldn't have said a thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 I think I know how it happened but I'm not saying anything. Me coming from being a computer tech for the past 15ish years I feel retarded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaSSon Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 I think I know how it happened but I'm not saying anything. Me coming from being a computer tech for the past 15ish years I feel retarded. Oh? Operator error? Did you maybe get phished? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Oh? Operator error? Did you maybe get phished? untrusted porn site Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 No it wasn't a porn site. Up until maybe a year ago I had a server (just a small Windows Xp box that I was hosting files/pics (junk of my car, etc.. I set it up on the DMZ on the router. I took down the server months ago and just left it at that. I went into the router today and saw the DMZ was on the IP address of the main PC I use. When I took down the server I didn't remove the DMZ option so when I rebooted the router a few times this and there it put my server on the DMZ on .103. Not sure if that was the cause but I had my PC sitting on the outside of the world. shrug. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TTQ B4U Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 No it wasn't a porn site. homo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gillbot Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 FF + No Script FTW, and I never use a DMZ. I put all the junk I need to host on my host's server or my ISP's storage space. Let hackers attack them, not me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
unfunnyryan Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 No it wasn't a porn site. Up until maybe a year ago I had a server (just a small Windows Xp box that I was hosting files/pics (junk of my car, etc.. I set it up on the DMZ on the router. I took down the server months ago and just left it at that. I went into the router today and saw the DMZ was on the IP address of the main PC I use. When I took down the server I didn't remove the DMZ option so when I rebooted the router a few times this and there it put my server on the DMZ on .103. Not sure if that was the cause but I had my PC sitting on the outside of the world. shrug. DMZ without a static IP address? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
87GT Posted January 4, 2011 Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 DMZ without a static IP address? What he said. Son I am Dissapoint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buck531 Posted January 4, 2011 Author Report Share Posted January 4, 2011 Yeah I have the computers on 24/7. I never shut them off, that's why it really never mattered. It only mattered when I shut the server off and rebooted my PC. It put itself on 103 which was the DMZ. So yeah, huge failure on my part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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