someone got my password

[Tiago]

Hi.
My password in classicamiga as i remember is unique, i don't use it anywhere else.
I receive an email, spam maybe, saying that they got my password, and they show it on the email and it's correct.
How did they get it? They say they used keyboard record software and they filmed me watching porn, and bla bla bla if i don't pay 1200 dolars they will show the video to everyone in my contact list.

I am calm, as i don't watch porn, or at least nothing that i could not be be filmed, but i am concerned in how they got my password, it is a 8 digit and it would be difficult to generate mails random to see if anything would match. The email vs password is correct. And i got this email 2 days after start using opera... any connection?
Should it be something in CA website that was hacked?
Just a warn to you all, you should change your password, just in case.

[Stephen Coates]

Is it one of these?

http://forum.classicamiga.com/forum/...Blackmail-spam

If so, its nothing to be worried about, but you should change your password to be on the safe side. Its difficult to know for sure where they will have got your password from. It could have somehow been extracted from classicamiga, or it could have been elsewhere if you've used it elsewhere.

Try putting your email addresses into https://haveibeenpwned.com/ to see if they are linked to any well known data breaches.

[Kin Hell]

Hi Tiago.

I have no such Email & my password is Automatic when I log in here. I didn't tell Chrome to save my password, just used the option to always remember me. Probably the same thing & possibly Cookie based, but I don't know how this stuff works tbh.

I'd be guessing you had or have an infection such as a Trojan Virus & these nasty's look for key strokes after latching onto your Email account. I expect the Email you got will just be a Generic layout reply in an effort to partially scare you. If it quotes your Password, yeah..... you're infected. Your Solicitation on Pr0n Sites is probably where you got it from. - Meh, I'm surprised I'm not Bombed out! - No resident Virus checker other than Windows 10 here.

Go to:

https://www.trendmicro.com/en_us/for...housecall.html

& do an online check. You can even do a Custom Scan for specific folders, which I usually do after Torrenting something, especially if there are Key Gen's or .EXE's to patch the install of what you downloaded.

Download Trend's .EXE file for your OS & run it. It will also download the latest updates before performing the scan on the folders you select or allow Trend to scan by default.

Also, I don't run an Email Client on my rig. I Log In & browse Email via Chrome.