Hey guys,
Apparently my gf's Gmail account was hacked yesterday, she got all of her contacts and mails erased and spams went out to all the contacts on the contact list (that's 5GB of mails mostly), and as the settings said it was set to forward mails to a yahoo account by the same name.
Is it possible that the whole content was imported to that account? I've already sent a mail to Yahoo, to do something about it, but as it seems Google won't be able to recover anything besides contacts.
And how do they select whose mails to steal? I mean she's surely not in a position that can be that valuable. A read a lot of people complaining about having their accounts hacked from China and Nigeria (same thing here), but most of them hadn't lost their whole account, they just noticed peculiar activity.
And as I also read, some 150000 accounts have been compromised so far, isn't it a bit too much? Surely there's something to be done. And I can't say that she didn't use enough security, it is definitaly Google's task to do something.
Has anything similar happened to any of you?