Juicewrldfan
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Hi Everyone,
So, someone tried to hack me today. I think I pissed someone off on Reddit and I shouldn't have allowed myself to get into a heated debate on a social media outlet. Anyway, I got an email from them and then I blocked it, didn't click anything in it. This was all on my phone by the way connected to an ASUS router with the firewall turned on. However, when I was out and about I then got a text message from an unknown GMAIL account which further identified themselves as the same person and blackmailing me to sell my information. So I didn't click anything or even respond to the GMAIL to text, text message. I just blocked them again and reported it to my service provider.
So, my question is this: Can someone find my phone number just with my email address? My email was not hacked. I use GMAIL with 2-step authentication and am behind a firewall. I googled my email plus "phone" and my phone number was not listed by my name. My email was though. Or are people able to use "Email to text" from GMAIL if they just have your GMAIL address? It seems like everything is safe, because that was about 5-6 hours ago and all of my financial accounts are accurate. Then again, I have 2-step verification on every single account I have, even steam.
Next question, I factory reset my phone just in case to get rid of malicious software. I don't think I have a virus, but just in case. I have a newer iphone by the way. I don't know if that matters, but they are supposed to be very hard to hack. I reset my ASUS router and changed all passwords to very very difficult and long passwords, enabled DoS protection and made sure my firewall was still up and it is. I am kind of not super tech savvy when it comes to security though. Are there any options that I should adjust on an ASUS router for added security beside DoS protection? My biggest question is I read that it is very difficult to put viruses on routers and requires a very skilled hacker which most hackers are not skilled enough, at least the ones that target residences. How true is this?
I think I may be overreacting changing all my passwords to everything and stuff. I am guessing they are just fishing. Any tech savvy security pros on here, or laymans that are good with security? Please advise if you can. Thank you
So, someone tried to hack me today. I think I pissed someone off on Reddit and I shouldn't have allowed myself to get into a heated debate on a social media outlet. Anyway, I got an email from them and then I blocked it, didn't click anything in it. This was all on my phone by the way connected to an ASUS router with the firewall turned on. However, when I was out and about I then got a text message from an unknown GMAIL account which further identified themselves as the same person and blackmailing me to sell my information. So I didn't click anything or even respond to the GMAIL to text, text message. I just blocked them again and reported it to my service provider.
So, my question is this: Can someone find my phone number just with my email address? My email was not hacked. I use GMAIL with 2-step authentication and am behind a firewall. I googled my email plus "phone" and my phone number was not listed by my name. My email was though. Or are people able to use "Email to text" from GMAIL if they just have your GMAIL address? It seems like everything is safe, because that was about 5-6 hours ago and all of my financial accounts are accurate. Then again, I have 2-step verification on every single account I have, even steam.
Next question, I factory reset my phone just in case to get rid of malicious software. I don't think I have a virus, but just in case. I have a newer iphone by the way. I don't know if that matters, but they are supposed to be very hard to hack. I reset my ASUS router and changed all passwords to very very difficult and long passwords, enabled DoS protection and made sure my firewall was still up and it is. I am kind of not super tech savvy when it comes to security though. Are there any options that I should adjust on an ASUS router for added security beside DoS protection? My biggest question is I read that it is very difficult to put viruses on routers and requires a very skilled hacker which most hackers are not skilled enough, at least the ones that target residences. How true is this?
I think I may be overreacting changing all my passwords to everything and stuff. I am guessing they are just fishing. Any tech savvy security pros on here, or laymans that are good with security? Please advise if you can. Thank you
