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As I read it, they got that information from her email, and were I a betting man I'd say probably Yahoo or Gmail. They already had her password; getting it from
by FussyZeus 11y ago
As I read it, they got that information from her email, and were I a betting man I'd say probably Yahoo or Gmail. They already had her password; getting it from the website would be trivial. This is all my own assumption of course.
The underscore here is that a limited use case person, someone who occasionally posts limited things and doesn't do anything beyond casual ebaying can still be a victim.
- downandout 11y agoYes, they got it from email, but they didn't get into the email until they were in the house and got the password from a post-it note for the main account, and the daughter had the browser auto-fill it. They wouldn't have had either of these without a willing participant that let them into the house to find the information. It's like saying "I was easily able to rob the bank vault after the manager opened it".
- FussyZeus 11y agoYou make it sound like achieving remote access to this machine with two dozen malicious programs on it would be difficult. I highly doubt the machine is as hardened as her Facebook is. The chain is only as strong as it's weakest link.