It finally happened. My email got hacked. Using a more sophisticated version of my 6th grade email password has finally caught up to me. Don't worry, I've changed it now. It's my 6th grade email password on steroids. I'm talking Bane from "Batman" steroids. Crazy crab face mask, veiny disgusting biceps, the whole thing.Totally solid.
Guess how I found out? Poor Madeleine's mom got four or five porny emails from "me". All different email addresses but from "me". I'm just thankful that it was Madeleine's mom and not my mom who would have died of shock and embarrassment that her daughter was sending her porn.
I texted my mom to say don't panic, I think my email has been hacked just don't open anything from me for a little while. I expected my mom to immediately call me and tell me to get my credit checked right now. Nope. Just a rather nonchalant "Ok. Are you feeling any better?" [I've been sick for the past few days]. This coming from the woman who once asked me, "WHAT'S THE PHONE NUMBER FOR GOOGLE? I THINK MY EMAIL HAS BEEN HACKED!!!" After stifling a chortle, I calmly asked her why she thinks she'd been hacked expecting her to paraphrase some "20/20" story on phishing. Fuckin' John Stossel. Apparently, a week or so after my parents got home from a vacation they checked their email account and it said their last login location had been Massachusetts. Paranoia set in and they immediately thought HACKED (btdubs, that's how my dad types. In all caps. I think he thinks that maybe the compute will go faster because he's more emphatic? e.g. GOOGLE.COM. STOCK ALERTS). So I changed the password and then I thought huh. They were in Boston recently. As recently as last week. Did they maybe login at the hotel's business center? Bingo! Crisis averted.
I'm not quite so paranoid that I'm looking up the phone number for Google, but I did change my password and so far only one person has received porn from me so here's hoping that no one else I know get's weird sexually explicit emails from me!
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