yikes!

[edenfalling]

I just noticed that someone seems to have hacked my lj account.

Fortunately, all that they did was change one of my userpics -- my circle of multicolored question marks turned into a little animated Stephen Colbert icon saying 'FAIL.' I think it may have been meant as a comment on my account security. :-(

Anyway, I deleted the icon, changed my lj password and question, reset my email address a couple times, and changed all my email passwords as well -- a new and different one for each account. (I should have done that a while ago, but I got lazy and figured I had nothing worth hacking. Clearly I do not understand hacker mentality.)

*crosses fingers and hopes that works*


ETA: I am informed that this is simply one iteration of a site-wide icon glitch thing that's been going on for a while. While that's much less creepy than a hacker, it's still not terribly reassuring for my account security status. *sigh*

Comments

[leilia.livejournal.com]

Yep it is a site wide Icon glitch. I had two icons do this to me within the past 3 weeks. One I made and one I didn't.

I don't know what is causing it but I think it is because LJ saves icons by number and they may inverse/reverse them or something. I don't really get it. But yeah, you didn't get hacked.

Although it is highly annoying.

[edenfalling]

Annoying and creepy, since it implies that LJ can and will screw around with people's accounts by accident. It's bad enough when they do it on purpose! :-)