Q. What is 5,237.11?
I am sick and tired and mad as hell today. I’ve been hacked in my Google.
I was balancing my accounts yesterday, and noticed Google trying to bill me several thousand dollars into an account that has (or I should say had) roughly 20 bucks in it.
I saw that the charge didn’t go through at first. Well, how can it with a whopping 20 dollars. But it looked at first like a mistake that had taken care of it, with the exception of the returned check fee hitting my bank.
I looked a bit closer.
I went into my Google adwords account. Immediate shock hit me when I realized my account had been compromized. Someone had an adwords party on August 5th to the tune of over $6.00 a click.
The clean up is going to be ugly today.
I wrote 3 letters to Google as I was in complete panic mode. I found some others on a forum who appear to be having the same issue this past week – but for about half of what I got charged.
Hackers are an increasingly big problem. I’m not exactly sure how this happened. I am grateful today for the roof currently over my head, and I’m trying to move on with working through this. I am anxious to see how the big G will treat the situation, and myself included.
I changed my password, cleared cookies, and just don’t know what else to do. What really sucks is seeing this type of thing on a Sunday. Banks are closed and it is like looking at the train wreck happening yet there is an invisible wall between you and the train. You are looking at it happening in disbelief, yet you can’t even go over to help the clean up get started because it is SUNDAY!!!! Grrrrrr.
I am diving full steam into projects today. Going to try to keep really busy between calls to the bank and my awaited emails from G. This really ticked me off too – I wanted to call some customer service or something yesterday. There is no number to call for Google. Or is there? They gotta have a phone somewhere in that big building with segways rolling around. When it comes to my finances I need someone on the horn when this stuff starts going down.
Ugh. 7:32am and I have to wait. I just want to get in touch with the bank.
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2BIG on
Mon, 18th Aug 2008 2:37 pm
WOW I missed this last week. sorry you got hacked. any chance it was related to your other consumer action activties?
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