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Title: My ICQ and XMPP Jabber accounts were hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 24, 2015, 02:55:50 PM My ICQ account 671760262 was just hacked.
Avoid using it to contact me. It's certainly not me. EDIT: My XMPP/Jabber account cryptology@jabb3r.org is gone too. Assume also hacked. Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Scam Investigator on September 24, 2015, 03:10:52 PM Step 1: Scam people
Step 2: Claim ICQ was hacked Step 3: Claim innocence Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 24, 2015, 03:50:33 PM Step 1: Scam people Step 2: Claim ICQ was hacked Step 3: Claim innocence Were is step 1? Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 24, 2015, 04:42:11 PM From a backup I was able to recover the ICQ contact list and from a fresh account I was able to send an alert to all of them.
Hopefully nobody will get scammed. Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 24, 2015, 05:05:15 PM The whole thing went into extortion mode.
I guess that the funniest part of this sad story is the "I am an honest man" piece. http://www.anyfiles.org/ahl?download_token=0b1bcbab3d43cbd8b763a915255e870947509549faf8d3d198d9b528aa3578ad Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: james.lent on September 25, 2015, 08:09:55 AM How do they even log into your acc ? ICQ's tied to your mobile number ain't it ?
Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 25, 2015, 08:18:19 AM How do they even log into your acc ? ICQ's tied to your mobile number ain't it ? I could not log in back again nor recover the account. As part of the hack the account's phone number was linked to a different account so every recovery attempt led to this alt account. The hack was proficiently done. I managed to recover the contact list because I run all messaging apps on virtual machines which are backed up frequently. Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: james.lent on September 25, 2015, 08:19:25 AM How do they even log into your acc ? ICQ's tied to your mobile number ain't it ? I could not log in back again nor recover the account. As part of the hack the account's phone number was linked to a different account so every recovery attempt led to this alt account. The hack was proficiently done. I managed to recover the contact list because I run all messaging apps on virtual machines which are backed up frequently. Damn buddy... about time for me to stop using icq i guess... :o Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 25, 2015, 08:26:13 AM Damn buddy... about time for me to stop using icq i guess... :o I would definitively recommend not using ICQ. As to how the hack was done I don't know. Password was sufficiently strong to rule out a brute force attack. I guess that they either used an exploit at icq.com or maybe somebody from the inside just sold the account for a bunch of coins. Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: james.lent on September 25, 2015, 08:34:03 AM Damn buddy... about time for me to stop using icq i guess... :o I would definitively recommend not using ICQ. As to how the hack was done I don't know. Password was sufficiently strong to rule out a brute force attack. I guess that they either used an exploit at icq.com or maybe somebody from the inside just sold the account for a bunch of coins. I wouldn't be surprised.. i had a lot of unknown Russian accounts adding me lately. Blocked them all though.. Didn't know they could redirect the registered number to another account. Won't be using ICQ from now on thats for sure. Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: necrod on September 25, 2015, 11:20:57 AM didnt know people still using icq
Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 25, 2015, 12:35:23 PM What do criminals do after stealing and extortion have failed?
Try to fake a scam to damage your reputation. http://s04.anon.yahnataetu.com/017f4b963e1e2626d1b3b9ef0cfcec7a.jpg http://s03.anon.yahnataetu.com/bb644cf2b0c9de03897bed9620f71a4d.jpg http://s02.anon.yahnataetu.com/8720e784932eeeb874c6c9e0db84c780.jpg http://s03.anon.yahnataetu.com/9798471e76d8dfa5d57b032bb7d43f18.jpg http://s04.anon.yahnataetu.com/f5a19c1b8b2cdc0fd7c48863a02dc1cf.jpg Title: Re: ICQ account hacked Post by: MarkMJ on September 25, 2015, 01:17:09 PM When you want to scam this is the best opportunity.
Title: Re: ICQ and XMPP Jabber accounts hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 25, 2015, 02:52:13 PM I have just lost access to my XMPP/Jabber account cryptology@jabb3r.org
Assume hacked as with ICQ. Title: Re: ICQ and XMPP Jabber accounts hacked Post by: resources on September 25, 2015, 03:14:16 PM Why don't you contact theymos with some proof? He might help you with recovering those accounts.
Title: Re: ICQ and XMPP Jabber accounts hacked Post by: james.lent on September 25, 2015, 03:17:24 PM Why don't you contact theymos with some proof? He might help you with recovering those accounts. what has theymos got to do with icq and jabber? lol Title: Re: ICQ and XMPP Jabber accounts hacked Post by: Brad Harrison on September 25, 2015, 04:02:29 PM Why don't you contact theymos with some proof? He might help you with recovering those accounts. what has theymos got to do with icq and jabber? lol Remember theymos is god Title: Re: ICQ and XMPP Jabber accounts hacked Post by: Cryptology on September 25, 2015, 05:38:56 PM Why don't you contact theymos with some proof? He might help you with recovering those accounts. Thanks for the idea but is not worth the efforts. I nuked both accounts and I'm certainly not planning to go back to trading via these insecure channels. Time for a review of communications strategy. Update: With 2 accounts blown over 2 different networks both set with very hard to break passwords the hypothesis of a compromised component is now very realistic. After some review the most probable attack vector is Pidgin (https://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/ChangeLog) a universal chat client that has not seen a release in almost a year. If there is somebody out there using this client be mindful of the risk. |
