As the title says. It looks like my email account got hacked. I don't believe anything came from it, but I'm not sure. So, to be on the safe side, I'm informing you guys at Paizo. I don't think they got anything in terms of my information - it looks like they signed in, attempted to send a ton of failed things, and signed out - but it's distressing that it happened nonetheless.
If my account begins behaving oddly, soon, you may know why.
I'm going to change my password here, just to be safe.
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You might want to change associated e-mail as well and check the last download dates on your downloads.
Thanks Drejk. It looks like nothing happened except they sent a bunch of failed email attachments. I think I interrupted them by signing on when I did (my account suggested I was hacked due to being logged into two places at once, before letting me Sign Out of all locations, and demanding I change my password... which I did).
That's a bummer.
If you're like most people, you use the same password on other systems.
You should consider that password to be forever compromised on all systems: the hackers have probably added it to a list of known passwords for use in future dictionary attacks (where they try every word in the dictionary, plus all known compromised passwords). It's also possible that they found your password on such a list in the first place.
So... Change that password wherever you're using it, and never use it again.
That's a bummer.
If you're like most people, you use the same password on other systems.
You should consider that password to be forever compromised on all systems: the hackers have probably added it to a list of known passwords for use in future dictionary attacks (where they try every word in the dictionary, plus all known compromised passwords). It's also possible that they found your password on such a list in the first place.
So... Change that password wherever you're using it, and never use it again.
More or less done (I think I got all my places, though I might have forgotten something). Thanks, Haladir.