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Hackers are still around…

Published by JazzyMoon on January 11, 2008 12:20 pm

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I found an article by David Airey, a designer who had his website hacked last December. Mr. Airey had his Gmail account hijacked, and the cracker transferred the domain name www.davidairey.co.uk without his consent.

The cracker asked then a ransom of 650$ to recover it.

Gmail Hacked

The technique used to hack the Gmail account is known as the Gmail E-mail Hijack Technique, but has been fixed by Google since then.

The Gmail account get Hijacked when a user goes to an evil website. A filter is setup in the Gmail account of the victim, which forwards all the emails to the email account of the hacker.

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2 Comments so far

  1. David Airey on January 17th, 2008

    Thankfully I got my domain back, but it’s caused some serious issues with Google’s search rankings.

    I appreciate the mention buddy.

  2. JazzyMoon on January 17th, 2008

    Hi David. I’m glad everything got sorted out.

    I understand the ranking issues. Build it up is a painstaking process, and important in particular for freelancers like you.

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