+JABs Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 (edited) This topic was started on the Australian GCA site . Alot of Australian Caches use this forums site. As for getting any helpful information on this subject I thought I would bring it to the site linked to GC.com and see if I am able to get a better responce from the Global Geocaching community. Has any one ever had there caching account stolen? Looks like the JABs have and about a dozen caches in the south of the ACT have been looged as been found by us. As this is not the case I have edited those logs to note that we never visited the area. Please let us know if anyone else has had this problem and if so what was done to overcome it. Thanks Jon aka JABs. Edited December 29, 2007 by JABs
+FamilyDNA Posted December 29, 2007 Posted December 29, 2007 It seems strange to me that someone would want to steal a free account with no real value. As for ways to overcome it, did you try changing your password?
+trainlove Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 If an account has been hijacked then it's probably impossibly to change the password as it probably was changed by the criminal along with the email address... One should always use a different password for every different account one has out on the web, one never knows which site managers sniff the passwords on their sites and try to see if they are yours for your bank account and paypal and so on...
+FamilyDNA Posted December 30, 2007 Posted December 30, 2007 If an account has been hijacked then it's probably impossibly to change the password as it probably was changed by the criminal along with the email address... The OP mentioned editing the false logs, which would indicate he was still able to log into the account.
+JABs Posted December 30, 2007 Author Posted December 30, 2007 Thanks all. All passwords are differant and where changed straight away. It now looks like a previous user of this computer has logged the cache onto the JABs account and not there own.
+czarbucks Posted December 31, 2007 Posted December 31, 2007 I was going to say that The Man and I frequently have the "hijacking" problem with our gc.com accounts... one of us will log the day's finds, and if that one doesn't log out, we'll end up with duplicates, rather than one for each of us. "Must remember to log in as self..." Glad you figured out the issue.
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