Reddit account compromised: a lesson in passwords
Look, I'm not even sure if my device is rooted properly, or even how to check. What I do know, is that I have narrowed the loss of my password down to an app I got from TPB.
Trying to save $3 resulted in the loss of my Reddit account and gmail of the same name in rapid succession (whoohoo, he let me keep my HN account!). Although im not sure which happened first, it is clear why it went down that way: the paswords differed by one character.
Ugh.
Anyways, they immediately started posting blogspam with my account. When I started messaging them, they made it clear that this would just be the beginning (removing themselves as mod from all of my subreddits), and I scrambled to secure my gmail account. I might have failed in that regard, but I'm trying...
As it stands right now, most of my accounts seem secure, but who knows.
Now that I reflect on it, I'm suprised it hasn't happened already, fools go crazy for that karma.