My other half discovered that some dodgy person/company had managed to send instagram messages to all of her followers from her account. She changed her password immediately, but what could have happened here? Is it the case that a “hacker” had access to her full instagram account, or would they have used some tool that allows posting of messages via some kind of proxy without requiring access to her actual account? There was no record of other logged in devices on the security page of her account.

  • SolOrion@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    Meanwhile my main email account has started getting “WALMART.WIN.CONFIRMATION PLEASE REPLY TO LOCK IN YOUR NEW IPAD” emails from a4c9z4jskp8e8_a4c9tgz4jskp@cardci.de (I mangled that email a bit but it’s close to accurate) about once a week. Just… in my main fuckin inbox.

    It’s frustrating because it’s so obviously spam.