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For-Chan Cookie ([personal profile] forchancookie) wrote2009-03-05 03:00 pm
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Hacker Alert

A lot of communities have been buzzing about it lately, someone is hacking into accounts and posting malicious spam to communities. A few people have even had their personal journals vandalized or flat out deleted. It seems that the hackers gaining access to journals via lapsed email accounts. So if you used a hotmail account to sign up for a journal and it's since lapsed, you'll want to change that ASAP!

You can delete old e-mail addresses associated with your account that you no longer use or have control over here: http://www.livejournal.com/tools/emailmanage.bml

You can also set up a security question for a bit of added protection: https://www.livejournal.com/set_secret.bml

So get updating people! Don't let these jerks mess with your lj fun! And on that note, I really should look into backing up my journal. I might die if all my entries just disappeared x_X

[identity profile] yami-chan.livejournal.com 2009-03-06 05:28 am (UTC)(link)
How do you back up your journal? Do you literally have to go back and save every entry? I hope not. I'm too lazy. x.x

[identity profile] forchancookie.livejournal.com 2009-03-06 05:37 am (UTC)(link)
There are programs to do it. I'm browsing to see which one is best. Saving it all manually would suck balls! Especially considering how many entries I have x_X

[identity profile] yami-chan.livejournal.com 2009-03-06 05:43 am (UTC)(link)
Cool. Let me know what you find? <3