MSE News: Check NOW if hackers have stolen your data after LinkedIn and Myspace hacks 30 May 2016 at 6:35PM edited 31 May 2016 at 7:06PM in Techie Stuff 8 replies 4.6K views

Former_MSE_Nick

There has been a spate of recent high-profile data breaches exposing users' data, with more than 100 million account details from the professional social network LinkedIn published online a couple of weeks ago. But there's a quick, free and easy way to check if you're at risk from these and many other data breaches.

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'Check NOW if hackers have stolen your data after LinkedIn and Myspace hacks'

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clairet707

Im being bombarded with spam now since checking not happy!!:(:mad:

alanwsg

clairet707 wrote: »

Im being bombarded with spam now since checking not happy!!:(:mad:

Are you using hotmail, it may be them - their spam filters are down .....
http://www.lifehacker.co.uk/2016/06/01/confused-by-your-inbox-this-morning-microsofts-outlook-and-hotmail-spam-filters-are-broken

S0litaire

Used the site many times, not noticed any rise in spam.

If your logins have been compromised change password and turn on 2-factor-authentication.

Former_MSE_Nick

As has already been pointed out by alanwsg, if you're on Hotmail and you're getting an increased amount of spam this morning it may be because Microsoft has been having issues with its Outlook Spam filters for the past 12 hours. It's currently trying to fix this.

We have added in a step on spam emails to the article explaining this.

MSE Nick

MABLE

MSE_Nick wrote: »

As has already been pointed out by alanwsg, if you're on Hotmail and you're getting an increased amount of spam this morning it may be because Microsoft has been having issues with its Outlook Spam filters for the past 12 hours. It's currently trying to fix this.

We have added in a step on spam emails to the article explaining this.

MSE Nick

Received about 40 in my junk file yesterday but today nothing. Hopefully it was because of the hotmail issues and nothing else.

System

First of all, I cannot seem to find any link to check if hackers have got at me - where is the link? Second, I suspected all was not well on Facebook which is why I closed it down in March 2016 after three years as a member. I think, I hope, I found the way to make it a permanent closure and removal rather than just be made dormant. I just hope my email and anything else is not still floating around in FB space. I have increasing problems with Virgin Media, my service provider, and despite writing to them twice (handwritten snail mail because of hacking fears) I have yet to receive a reply or have my problems resolved. They provide my landline phone as well and I strongly suspect problems there too. I receive my email via Virgin Media through to Windows Live Mail on my PC and there are problems there!! It never ends! I see in this latest message from MSE that Microsoft Outlook has problems, does Windows Live Mail too? I have messages suddenly going into Spam folders when they used to go (correctly) into my Inbox. Some messages never seem to arrive, or suddenly appear weeks later (and sometimes in Spam) making you wonder if you did not spot them originally. Even Virgin Media's own messages to me are going astray now, which I have told them about!! I also get what their Helpdesk has told me are Spam messages from someone using a Virgin Media type address. An email from my bank that I was expecting last week never turned up either! Now as I read this latest MSE message and logged on to this Forum I am told that MSE has also been hi-jacked and so I now wonder if this is actually the MSE Forum after all and wonder what sort of reply I might get, if any!!! Help!

System

I now see that the existing messages that I can see on this Forum thread are nearly three months old! So it would seem I am well and truly hacked - and hacked off!

custardy

You cant find a link when theres a clickable link in the opening post?
Kinda hard to follow your post but you seem to have been hacked everywhere by your reckoning.