ruby’s rants & randomness
If you’re not outraged, you’re not reading my blog.
I have regained full access to PayPal, as well as Yahoo and Amazon. I’ll be talking to Apple tomorrow. Also orangepolitics.org isn’t actually hacked, it’s just the domain name.
I still don’t have Dreamhost back (which is the root of the problem) but they agreed to lock everyone out until it’s straightened out. Yay.
Well, it looks like the hackers got my community website, too. I think this confirms my suspicion that they are fucking with my domain names by way of hacking my Dreamhost account. They’re usually very responsive, but DH has not replied to my urgent messages for over 24 hours.
This is what orangepolitics.org looks like now:
As I am unsure whether my e-mail is compromised, please use rubysinreich@facebook.com to reach me in the immediate future. Sigh.
OK, Amazon.com wins the prize for being the first company to help me fix things! One down, 10 to go…
It’s been over 12 hours since I heard a peep from anyone at Twitter, but several folks I know say they are contacting friends who work there.
Meanwhile, I just got an unsolicited password reset e-mail from my secret back-up Twitter account! Either Twitter is helping me fix the wrong account, or I am under additional attack. Ugh!
Apparently the entire Apple tech support team is on vacation today?
Seems like it would behoove them to let me talk to a human as soon as possible.
Earlier I got a message about my Apple ID being linked to an iPhone and iCloud, neither of which are things I use. This whole ID is so old and abandoned that I doubt it even has valid credit card attached. Are there any other risks I should be looking for with this?
PayPal and Dreamhost have also not replied to requests that I have submitted via forms or real support addresses. Not. Even. Replied.
I’m pretty sure the above is my hacker’s email address! I found it in my Yahoo account. Now what????
I am powerless to stop this, apparently.
The following email address (rubyji@gmail.com) was deleted from your Yahoo! account (al********).
To ensure that your account information remains accurate and secure we notify you whenever this information changes.
This change request was made on May 27, 2013 at 04:42pm EDT.
Thanks to all of you who are trying to contact the human beings that you personally know at Twitter.
This afternoon I got a response form someone named Verenski to my request submitted last night via https://support.twitter.com/forms/signin, but all it said was:
Hi,
I’ve just replied to your other request. Please respond to that other email.
Thanks,
verenski
But I didn’t get any other reply! Is the hacker in my Gmail deleting messages? Or did they contact Twitter themselves to make them look legit?
I responded saying I had no other reply from them, but now I imagine I have to wait hours for another response. I wonder if they would be able to call me on the phone?