HACKER REPELLENT...

OKAY...so I've decided that we need or SHOULD have an OFFICIAL "CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD DAY!"   Why?  I recently had my email hacked into, so if you got a story from me saying that I was mugged and to send money...well...I hope that you haven't!  It happened because I clicked on an email saying that my facebook account was disabled because someone had been trying to log on unsuccessfully.  There was no "CLICK HERE" to go to this place or that, but at the end of a fairly long email, it said..."To learn more about facebook security...

This is where everything went wrong.  I clicked the link like I so often have from facebook (I get notified about posts from someone, etc.) and the link brought me to what I thought was facebook.  I then signed in using my password and then next thing I know, I  am getting phone calls in my classroom seeing if I am here.  I had no idea since this happened from my home email and if I didn't get calls, I wouldn't have known for quite some time.  Needless to say, it's been a major headache.  This hacker had also gotten into my preferences and was having any new email forwarded to their yahoo address.  I have reported this crime to all the necessary places and hopefully, with any luck my facebook page will be active again soon and possibly something will be done...I don't hold out too much hope for that since it was from Nigeria.  Here's the letter that got me in trouble...

I do have to say that the one thing I realized from all of this was how often I use the same password.  This hacker didn't have my email password, but my email password happened to be the same as my facebook password.  I do keep a little book of passwords (hopefully, that'll never get stolen or I'm screwed!), and went through every site that I had used that same password for.  It wasn't all of them, but there were quite a few. 

I'm not sure if this special day already exists, but if not.....

June 24th is going to be my OFFICIAL CHANGE YOUR PASSWORD DAY!