An Unauthorized Access investigation shouldn't have worked Unless he also had specific information from the console the tag belongs to. If the information doesn't match the account history, they'll reject.
You can only get this info from physically accessing the console. I'd wager dollars to donuts this is a social engineering hit.
Explains how the thief had enough info to get a UAI started and why the OP's e-mail wasn't broken into. I have never seen that phrase. It sounds like a big fancy phrase for "I got conned into telling someone my log-in info". That's one way of doing it. There's a load of other ways of getting the info that don't require the user to be conned though. Wikipedia - en. This had nothing to do with social engineering! The hackers are using Xbox recover password page to get your email and your password!
I watched a video of some guy doing it , they hacked my acct also and I never gave out my info! So to have someone say you must have giving your info to them is B.
I had some idiot from Xbox tell me the same thing and I told him I never gave out any of my info, he said you must have cuz we have not been hacked! Whatever you tard! Bobbyzzz FIFA has nothing to do with SE'ing accounts or using a "password recover page" seeing as there is no such thing.
The hacker has contacted me before asking if I wanted to sell my tag and then threatened to hack me. He SE'ed the account. He has acquired all of the information through 3rd party sources Ex: Comcast, Cell phone providers, and other companies. Although the guy that maybe hacked me already knows my info, so I don't know how much that will help either. One weird thing about this is that some of the random emails had a strange name, totally not me, while maybe one or two had my real name, even though they were all done around the same time frame.
So while there may or may not be more than one cause to this whole strange scenario, I'm inclined to believe it was all due to this hacker guy. It's just too random to not be related. I've never been victim to such an attack before, and it really sort of shattered my sense of security online.
I'm not stupid and generally practice safe habits online, but somehow this guy was able to do all this just based on knowing my gamertag. And maybe having this one username spread across various outlets isn't such a great idea as I thought it would be. So moral of the story: be careful how you play online.
Even though it's just a player match, some people take it way too seriously and aren't well-adjusted enough to handle a loss, even if it's a frustrating one. So, did I get hacked? Or, I guess I should specify that my gamertag itself didn't get hacked, as I can still log in and there isn't any unusual activity or anything, but my personal information seems to have been compromised. I think I will change my gamertag. I am going to remove my credit card info from my gamertag once I get one of those cheap pre-paid Visa cards or something.
Since I am assuming the hacker already has some of my information in order to have done this stuff, does anyone have any advice on further actions I should take? Do you think the above is enough? It's just what was recommended by the support rep, but it seems kind of limited to me.
Except I can't think of any other steps I can take. Most of it seems like it's going to help against future attacks, but I'm more worried about the present and hoping this doesn't escalate.
Right now it's just emails and a few phone calls. I'm hoping to avoid anything more serious than that. TL;DR I think I sort of got hacked in that somehow a guy finds out my email address, and potentially other information, that is associated with my Xbox Live gamertag, and proceeds to sign me up for some random websites leading me to get phone calls and emails from places like ITT and University of Phoenix.
What steps would you take now to fix this situation? Well are you on the Ars Live Database or any others? It is also not a stretch to imagine you have posted your gamertag in a forum post, and also your email address at some point in time. No, you did not. It's far more likely there's some hit on google somewhere that links the two. I am in the Ars database, but I have never posted my email address in any forum post or made it publicly viewable because I am paranoid about spam and such.
Not here, or anywhere. Maybe it doesn't mean much but my email address doesn't show up anywhere after doing a quick google search. The unique name part of it, without the " whatever. I don't think it was anything like a web search or whatever that he got my information through, but maybe I'm just not hackerish enough to know how people can do this kind of thing. Another weird aspect is that one of the emails for ITT college had my old college dorm address in it, which I thought was very strange.
It's one reason why I wasn't entirely sure that this was all attributable to the hacker, but I can't figure out any other reason why I would have gotten a request for information email during this specific time if it weren't for some third party doing things in my name.
I know that a while ago I found some guy had put some videos of me sucking at blazblue on youtube up. I got angry about it for like. I'd be slightly concerned that he got your phone number but that's because I tend to keep that kind of information more on the secretive side. If you're not so secretive about it then I wouldn't worry.
If all someone got was my email address 1 its more likely that they got the wrong one 2 email is easily deletable. I suppose one of the better things about having my own domain is that its fairly easy to compartmentalize functions - for example, I laugh when I get bank phishing email to the email that has mods ars mail go into it :V -Alpha.
I don't think I ever have my phone number posted anywhere online. I do think it is strange that some of these things have my real name and number, while others don't. Also, with the revelation of my old college address maybe there is some other outside force acting on me at the same time, but it just feels so random that it would happen all of a sudden right after someone threatens to take hacking actions towards me.
I guess I just don't know what to think right now, and I am seeking solutions to this problem. Check the Account alias section.
This makes it harder for someone to break in to your account. Make sure all your personal info is correct and up to date. Step 4: Review your billing history. View your transactions online. To view recent charges on your account, select Order history. You can customize the date range by choosing your beginning and end dates. The grand total includes taxes.
If you share your account with other members of your family, ask if they made any purchases. Do you use automatic sign-in, and are there others who have access to your console, such as roommates or family members?
Check with them to see if they accidentally made a purchase by using your profile instead of their own. Find your Microsoft account email address. If you have questions about an unknown charge, here are some common reasons a charge appears on your statement:. Review and update your billing info. At this point you'll also want to look at your billing info and correct any changes that may have been made just like you previously did for your basic account info.
If there were any subscriptions added, select Manage and then Cancel subscription. If you want to see if someone in your household purchased the content and forgot to let you know, you can check your download history to see if the purchases were downloaded to your console.
Select Updates. On the Updates screen, make sure Keep my games and apps up to date is selected. Now check the full list of games and apps on your console:. Select Games to view all purchased games, including games that have not yet been installed. Select Apps to view all purchased apps, including apps that have not yet been installed. On your Xbox console. You can review your Xbox purchase history online, and you can review your download history on your Xbox console.
To review your purchase history: Go to Order history and sign in with your Microsoft account email and password. Browse your purchase history. To review your download history: Sign in to the Xbox network on your Xbox console by using the gamertag that you used when you originally purchased the content.
Go to Settings and select Account. Select Download History. Browse your download history. We'll need you to provide some specific info: The hardware identification numbers from the Xbox console that you use most often: Xbox Series X S and Xbox One device ID and console serial number.
An alternative email address where we can send you updates on your account. Note All email communication will be sent to this alternative email address. Step 5: Keep your account secure.
Update the security info for your email address. Here are some additional things you can do to make it more secure. Simply changing your password is sufficient when it comes to protecting your saved profile on Xbox One or Xbox Series X S consoles.
0コメント