#ncix

I received a blitz of emails in my spam folder yesterday, all identically worded. The sender claimed to be a member of an international hacker group and that he had hacked my account and sent me messages from myself. To prove he had done this, he included my password. He claimed he'd gotten a virus onto my computer via an 'adult site' I had visited, hacked my email, my social networks, my messengers, etc., and then secretly turned on my webcam and recorded me visiting all kinds of filthy sites, and demanded I send $700 to a bitcoin wallet within 48 hours to prevent him from sending logs of this material to everyone in my contacts book. Point one: the passwords were all from Livejournal accounts I haven't accessed in years. True, I had imported several of the journals to Dreamwidth, but I'd changed those passwords. Point two: the most adult site I've been to is the Game of Thrones wiki, or possibly the National Grid natural gas billing page. Point three, I disabled my camera in the system settings when I wiped it and installed Windows, and I put electrical tape over the thing anyway. I ignored the messages, but after some consideration opted to go through as many of my online accounts as possible and change passwords anyway. (Lastpass helps with this.) I also dropped the text of one of the spam paragraphs into a search engine, just in case this was a common spam of some kind. It led me to a discussion thread from people who had received the same message within the past 24 hours.  Apparently a Canadian electronics retailer named NCIX had failed to wipe their server hard drives before selling them off during bankruptcy proceedings, and several servers turned up on Craigslist on September 21st, 2018. The RCMP intervened but not before the seller had already given the contents of the hard drives to at least five buyers.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/rcmp-and-privacy-commissioner-investigate-alleged-ncix-breach-1.4833976

https://mobilesyrup.com/2018/09/21/ncix-database-breach-for-sale-craigslist/

lol what the fuckin hell dude why

i’ve never even heard of something this stupid

in fact i didn’t even know ncix went bankrupt last year. i used it for all my computer parts needs but.. you know. once you’ve built the fucker you don’t really need more shit.

anyway i nixed my credit card and they’re sending me another. never had to do this before.