Life hacked
Monday, July 3, 2023
My entire life was hacked today.
Okay, that may be a BIT of an exaggeration, but it sure does feel that way. I knew it was going to be a crap day. First, I didn’t fall asleep until around 3:30am. When I woke up at 6 for work, I spent 15 minutes debating with myself on calling in. Considering I had a meeting with a new vendor, my counterpart was already on PTO, and tomorrow is a holiday, I sucked it up and went to the office. I looked like '“Night of the Living Dead”, which wan’t the best impression for a video call with a new vendor, but it is what it is. As if being dead tired wasn’t enough, the universe decided to continue to test me.
Things started off with about 15 emails, all in Chinese. Considering that I am untrusting and suspicious of everything, and not an idiot, I deleted them immediately without opening. Then, right before lunch, that’s when the alerts started coming in. First, Facebook. I got the “here’s the code you requested” text. Again, not being an idiot, I deleted that email and opened the app directly. Sure enough, there was a “was this you” notification. I said no and changed my password. Then, it was an avalanche… Google, Yahoo, Xfinity, Babble, PayPal, Etsy, Disney… all attempted logins. I spent my entire lunch changing passwords. I changed passwords that weren’t yet compromised. I walked back in to the office and commiserated with my VP about my current dumpster fire, just get another alert, this time from Amazon. Then, I got locked out of my computer. I wanted to hit my head on my desk. Dammit.
I posted on FB to let all know that they shouldn’t open any email or message from me from the last couple days. I texted the bf, Amanda, my kiddo, her dad, and a few others the same. I locked my debit card, just to be same. I called my parents to let them know as well. By this time, it was 4pm and I decided that the world was telling me to go home… so I did. The boyfriend was at his friends, my kiddo was at her friends, and so I walked into my quiet house, changed my clothes, and fell face first into bed, immediately passing out. I woke up a couple hours later, still to a quiet house, and made my way downstairs to the couch… where I passed out again. I finally woke up at almost 8pm and called my kiddo to see when she was coming home. She asked if I could pick her up in a few minutes. I spent the rest of the evening trying to use art, Audible, and jewelry making to drown out the craptastic day.
At least I have tomorrow off.