Gmail hacked!

[Rashers]

Just a warning to anyone who has a Gmail account. My gmail account was hacked just a few minutes ago... all of my contacts have received a virus attachment.

Don't worry though, no one on this board was in my gmail contacts.

If you have gmail I recommend you go now and change your password.

[Mykidsmom]

Just a warning to anyone who has a Gmail account. My gmail account was hacked just a few minutes ago... all of my contacts have received a virus attachment.

Don't worry though, no one on this board was in my gmail contacts.

If you have gmail I recommend you go now and change your password.

thanks for that jim...ive just started using gmail and havent quite got all my contacts over there .....darn that eh

[Womblemum]

neither mine or any of my friends who have gmail have had a problem Rashers.....would it have been something came in on one of your emails?

[Rashers]

neither mine or any of my friends who have gmail have had a problem Rashers.....would it have been something came in on one of your emails?

Nope, it's definitely from my gmail account which I haven't used in ages. It even sent the attachment to my usual address. It could be that just the one or two accounts were hacked because usually if such a big organisation is hit it gets in the news, and the last time they had a big hacker attack they sent out warnings to account holders to change their passwords.

[Red Biddy]

I was going to get a gmail account. Should I give it a miss?

[Rashers]

I was going to get a gmail account. Should I give it a miss?

No don't give it a miss. GMail is a very useful email resource and although my account was hacked once I highly recommend it.

Since my account was hacked there have been many security enhancements.

[Red Biddy]

thanks Rashers

[Rashers]

thanks Rashers

No problem Liz. My gmail was hacked nearly two years ago (see the date of my post about it) and since then I have not heard of anyone's gmail account being hacked. I'd say it was just an isolated incident in my case.

To be clear, I think Gmail is probably the best online mail service available.

[Mucker]

No problem Liz. My gmail was hacked nearly two years ago (see the date of my post about it) and since then I have not heard of anyone's gmail account being hacked. I'd say it was just an isolated incident in my case.

To be clear, I think Gmail is probably the best online mail service available.

To avoid any confusion in the future, can you please delete this topic.

Since your unfortunate experience 2 years ago, gmail has proven itself one of, if not the most, secure free and freely available e-mail sites on the internet.

It sounds almost churlish nowadays to slag g-mail.

[Rashers]

To avoid any confusion in the future, can you please delete this topic.

Since your unfortunate experience 2 years ago, gmail has proven itself one of, if not the most, secure free and freely available e-mail sites on the internet.

It sounds almost churlish nowadays to slag g-mail.

Who is slagging Gmail? Please show the post you refer to. Thank you.

[Mucker]

If you have gmail I recommend you go now and change your password.

OK.

You never slagged gmail.

[Rashers]

OK.

You never slagged gmail.

Thats advice that everyone should take on board or all mail clients, particularly web based mail.

I send that piece of advice on the day my gmail was hacked.

As soon as I realised it was an isolated incident I made that known... and have sang gmail's praises ever since.

[Red Biddy]

Using gmail at the moment but am being careful. But having taught email many moons agp am aware that emails can be hacked

Its up to the user to be aware that they should never reply to anyone they dont know etc

I dont even use facebook