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Re: Accessing Hijacked email accounts

by Guilherme Roschke :: Rate this Message:

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Roland Perry wrote:

> In message <0BC0157B-AD57-4A47-B7C8-9FAC4CE32AD0@...>, at
> 02:40:58 on Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Randall <rvh40@...> writes
>> Haven't read the replies yet - but don't those accounts have a button
>> that says "Forgot password?"
>>
>> Clicking those links will, I presume, send a "reset password" link
>> the the email address which the account holder used to register the
>> accounts originally.
>
> I would expect it to send the email to a currently associated email
> account, otherwise it could easily be sending to an email address that
> has itself been cancelled. And the hijacker may have changed the
> associated email address to one he has access to.

Indeed. It was my mistake to not mention this earlier. We have attempted
the standard "forgot your password" links.

-gr

Guilherme Roschke
Skadden Fellow
Domestic Violence and Privacy Project
Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org/privacy/dv/
(202) 483-1140 x124


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