Accounts been hacked

Reerea

In the past week or so l have had my amazon, paypal, facebook and ebay accounts hacked into by someone, they actually managed to buy something on amazon and had it posted to my address which was bizarre. Even more bizarre they left a review for it saying how pleased they were with the item

They got into Facebook and posted inappropriate content that got me suspended, luckily paypal realised and sent me a message saying someone had tried to log in from a different location, lm also getting emails supposedly from amazon giving me codes to log into my account with everyday also the same with facebook, With face book when you request to change your password they send you an email with your ip address in it, the last one l got had a different ip address to mine and when l checked it was an ip address registered down south and lm in the north.

Thing is amazon have advised me to go to the police about it, but will they just think lm wasting their time, lm expecting it to my bank account next.

JJ_Egan

What are you asking ??

Reerea

Would it be a waste of time going to the police

grumpycrab

Reerea wrote: »

Would it be a waste of time going to the police

Start here.
https://reporting.actionfraud.police.uk/login
Take your time - open a bottle of wine...

dj1471

Reerea wrote: »

Would it be a waste of time going to the police

Almost certainly.

Change all your passwords (especially for your email, this is probably how they got into everything), enable two-factor authentication where possible, report any fraudulent purchases or content to the relevant companies. Consider changing your mobile number as they may try to take this over to get past any 2FA.

Check your credit files and watch out for any fraudulent credit applications.

tempus_fugit

dj1471 wrote: »

Almost certainly.

Change all your passwords (especially for your email, this is probably how they got into everything), enable two-factor authentication where possible, report any fraudulent purchases or content to the relevant companies. Consider changing your mobile number as they may try to take this over to get past any 2FA.

Check your credit files and watch out for any fraudulent credit applications.

^^^ This.

You have obviously used the same password for all these accounts, and not very secure ones at that. Get them all changed to things that are not guessable and different for each account. This would be the first thing I'd be doing.

DCFC79

Use a clean machine or run anti virus on your machine.
Have you clicked on any links in an email eg from your bank or from eBay ?


To be extra sure why not phone your bank and explain your concerned and could you change your passwords.

MoneyMoney

You need to start from the ground up.

New email address with a complicated *UNIQUE* password and 2fa.

You need to move amazon, PayPal etc to that, reset all those passwords and have the accounts move to the new address, then reset their passwords again from the new email.

If you have a pc or other computer get good AV, best to move data to a backup cloud account and wipe the PC.

Use the 2fa email in future, use unique passwords, do not log into public computers.

RESET ALL ACCOUNTS EVEN ONES NOT HIT.

Reerea

Thankyou all for the brilliant replies, will take it all on board, by the way you were right about my passwords.

jjhdee

For 2FA, use something similar to Google Authenticator than having the sites text you with the login. Not foolproof but more secure than codes sent to you as text.

sebloak

Reerea wrote: »

In the past week or so l have had my amazon, paypal, facebook and ebay accounts hacked into by someone, they actually managed to buy something on amazon and had it posted to my address which was bizarre.

Apologies for dragging an oldish thread up, but this has also happened to me recently, but just the Amazon hack posting somethingi didnt order to my own address using my account via amazon.de. So in a horrible way i'm glad i'm not the only one, as people think i'm making it up:o. Did you manage to get it sorted? or a refund?