I've always been one to be "iffy" on hackers. I don't like how they can enter your life by finding you online, and find everything on you. This article was a good read though and i think it is very very interesting on how they (hackers) can do it by the strangest of ways.
I have actually seen a hacker in action through personal experience with someone close in my family! Here's the story, in May 2011, right before I graduated high-school and the week of my 18th birthday, there had been emails sent out from my mothers personal email account saying to her friends, family, co-workers, etc that she and our family had been held at gun point while we were on a family vacation over seas, and because of this "our family" needed money to get back home. We found out by personal calls from our friends and family asking what they could do to help. My mom immediately took action. First she tried getting on her Facebook account and she couldn't log in. The email she used to sign in was the one that had been hacked. Therefore she was locked out of her own personal profile and email account, etc. It was noticeable that the hacker put in an extra "E" in "Lesle(E)y" which was part of her username. He even changed the password. My mother made a new account and posted that the hacker was a fake and that our family is perfectly fine, stating that "we were never held at gun point, please disregard the messages asking for money." Honestly, in my onion, it scared not only her, but me too. Who knows what the hacker encountered through her personal information? Freaky right? I couldn't agree more. WOW! Facebook was notified and deleted the other account as wring theft and we even contacted gmail to let them know her email was hacked as well. All were eventually deleted and the hacker hopefully, to this day, did not win!
