I woke up this morning to an email account I could no longer access. So I tried to reset it by having it send an email to my backup email address. Only to find myself locked out of the backup as well. Luckily I was able to get tech support to help me unlock the secondary email and get access to the reset email from my primary email address. The fallout from this 40 minute project is as follows:
Creating a new email address
Informing all my contacts of my new email address
3 1/2 hours resetting passwords on all of my accounts
Changing my email address on all of my accounts
Severe frustration on my part and a desire to strangle the person responsible
So now I have created a new email account. But I still want to know why someone would bother to hack into my email and change my password. What possible purpose could that serve? How can it be fun to cause someone so much inconvenience and frustration? And perhaps the best question of all...what kind of society do we live in where people think it's OK to treat other people this way?
Hopefully this will be the last of the drama associated with this and the switch will be finalized ASAP! Way to waste my morning though.
I know you just set up a new email address, but you should consider changing it to something less obvious. I can tell your name and birthdate by your new email addy. Any piece of info the hacker can get is one more to help themselves to a successful hack.
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