Not sure where to post this...
I got a spam email with my museum password in the subject, which was the only reason I opened it.
It said, among other things, that I had visited "the porn site" and used that password (the first of many lies: I may have visited a few sites in my day but I never had an account with any of them) which they traced back to my email address. They also claimed they had "hijacked my computer and accessed my webcam" to record me, ahem... you know... (another lie: I put black tape over my laptop camera the day I got it) and they would send a copy of this "evidence" to every one of my facebook contacts (zero: I'm not on fb) unless I sent them $7000 in bitcoin. So it's obviously a scam but:
The only reason I'm mentioning this here is because the password they stole is my mego museum password which I don't use anywhere else.
I notice that for some time I get a warning about the museum login not being secure. I thought nothing of that warning until this happened.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this where their museum password/email address has been compromised?
To be clear, I'm not accusing anyone here of wrongdoing, just trying to figure this out.
I got a spam email with my museum password in the subject, which was the only reason I opened it.
It said, among other things, that I had visited "the porn site" and used that password (the first of many lies: I may have visited a few sites in my day but I never had an account with any of them) which they traced back to my email address. They also claimed they had "hijacked my computer and accessed my webcam" to record me, ahem... you know... (another lie: I put black tape over my laptop camera the day I got it) and they would send a copy of this "evidence" to every one of my facebook contacts (zero: I'm not on fb) unless I sent them $7000 in bitcoin. So it's obviously a scam but:
The only reason I'm mentioning this here is because the password they stole is my mego museum password which I don't use anywhere else.
I notice that for some time I get a warning about the museum login not being secure. I thought nothing of that warning until this happened.
Has anyone else experienced anything like this where their museum password/email address has been compromised?
To be clear, I'm not accusing anyone here of wrongdoing, just trying to figure this out.
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