Beware of Orkut and Hackers.
Attention. My orkut and google account was hacked by somebody and somehow i managed to get my account back. This is what happened. I was online as usual. My friend was online in Gtalk and started messaging me and i too was chatting with him. He told that he has crested a new webpage for him and asked me to check it “www.orkut.*fin*te*.net”(censored, cos few ppl may try checking it now and get into trouble). I followed that link which redirected to Orkut login page. He asked me to login first and view the site then and i did the same but I couldn’t view the site which he said and i could view only my home page. Suddenly my Gtalk got disconnected saying password doesn’t match. Wtf does it mean? While I’m working in my gmail and automatically it get disconnected and saying password doesn’t match. Yes, my password has been changed by somebody. When I tried to recover my password and I send recovery mail to secondary email, I couldn’t receive recovery page in my secondary mail also. It’s Strange. I thought my friend would’ve been playing and I called him(the one who I was chatting with). Shocking, he said he is not online and I told him the situation and he replied that he too have the same problem. Who the hell I was chatting with then? Why he want to do it to us? Fortunately I tried logging in again and I got logged in. Soon I wanted to change my password before hacker hacks it again and I changed my password. I was about to change the security question also and I noticed my secondary mail was changed to ‘hack_orkut@yahoo.com’. I was beaten and didn’t know what to do. When I tried to change my secondary mail, it told account information has not been changed. It means I can’t recover password anymore if I lost and the hacker can easily change my password when ever he wants. Thank god, I could change my secondary mail too then but I’m not sure whether the password recovery page would come to that. I could still see the guy who using my friends account to hack and was asking him why you are doing so, He/She/It replied ‘time pass‘. Wtf? When I entered Orkut, my caption was changed to “end of orkut soon” and unparliamentarily words were posted in some community in which I was a member and I was made joined in some other unwanted communities. By the time some of my friend started asking me ‘what made you to end orkut’ and I explained the situation to all. Now I think the situation is under control since I have recovered my password and changed the secondary mail too. But still I’m upset why this happened to me. I advice you all not to run any java scripts or unknown links and get into trouble like me. Who ever sends you be carefully before you access your mail which can be misused badly anytime, anywhere by anyone once when hacked. I thought of deleting orkut after this happened but I couldn’t do and that’s not because of hacker and but I would miss my friends contact.
I would also like to tell everyone that the scraps which comes to your scrapbook, which consists of ‘orkut tricks’, ’increase scrap, fans’, ’unlock albums’ ,etc. Just delete it and don’t have any intention in trying it. Hope my experience would be usefull to all and don’t happen to anybody. Beware of orkut , hackers , javascripts‘
March 29th, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Well I got the warning long back saying its not safe to use the javascript we get through scrap or follow the links… Anyway, I lost the obsession with orkut. Its boring out there. I just use it to talk to my very very old friends because they hardly come online when I am online to have an online conversation [chat].
March 29th, 2008 at 7:00 pm
Yeah man, we always need to be on the lookout.
Good thing you are alerting the others to the dangers in Orkut.
March 29th, 2008 at 7:17 pm
I didn’t know fishing season was in
March 29th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
Good advice and well written post.
(It’s phishing.)
March 30th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Yes, the extensive use of javascripts on orkut is a big concern when safety issues come into play.
Actually i had blogged some posts which would ensure your safety on orkut. This one is highly recommended
http://www.orkutplus.org/2008/02/make-orkut-safer-than-ever-surf-with.html
There is much more to orkut..you aren’t just in the right hemisphere
March 30th, 2008 at 6:17 am
Thanks Marc.
Thanks Gaurav for your idea.
March 30th, 2008 at 7:03 am
@Marc,
What’s the bloody fun if you sit and explain stuff!! Moron!!
March 30th, 2008 at 11:13 am
hey…
consider it done ok…
the exchanging links stuff…
haha yr already on my friends list…
so dn forget 2 add mine into yr blogroll…
March 30th, 2008 at 12:21 pm
Thanks for info dude. Anyway, i deleted my acc long back. Atleast it would be useful for other ppl who have an orkut acc.
March 30th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Ah, this reminds me my college mechanical guy.Once he said he will teach me orkut hacking and i was so amused. He asked me “Machan who to hack da, sathish?”, i said “poor fellow da, but thats okay go ahead”. And here is what he did.
He clicked on “Forgot password” and went for the password recovery question. It was “What is my pet’s name?” and the answer he gave is “dog” ,presto. He is done. It asked for new password.By a strange coincidence most of the mech guys in my coll have the same Question and Answer. D’uh.
And so this guy said “See, its as simple as that da”.I had no words to say, totally stumped me. Even Ankit Fadia won’t be able to do that.
Marana Mass…
March 30th, 2008 at 6:15 pm
Brilliant!
March 30th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
@ visu
Great dude. By the way who is Ankit Fadia?
March 30th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
@ Veni
Done
March 30th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
Ankit Fadia is a renowned ethical hacker and a computer security expert.
He was in the news several years ago.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:05 am
Yeah…. Really u gave a nice post dude… Noways people r becoming unsecure bcoz of hackers…. Bad 2 hear what situation happened 2 u….
April 3rd, 2008 at 6:55 pm
yes hari i too faced the same problem,but my account was not hacked instead i was made to join some unwanted comunities when i copied one of the java script and followed it.. so friends be carefull
September 10th, 2008 at 5:11 am
yaar my frd acc has been hacked
please give me some urgent tips to recover it
September 19th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Please let me know the easiest way to unlock somebody’s orkut scrap book… I’m not a computer savy…..
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July 31st, 2010 at 6:18 pm
I know this is really boring and you you want to skip to the next comment, but I just wanted to give you a big thanks – you cleared up some things for me!