Robert G Orick verbalized:

I came in today to check my e-mail... and found out that someone got into 
my account and erased all the messages that I did not save, new messages 
that I had not read yet, and text files that kept my stories.  The only 
messages that I had hidden away were private e-mail that I had stored in 
another file until I could answer them.  The damage can be repaired, but 
I'm still disturbed.  Whoever it was left a message teasing me about what 
he/she did...  I now have lost 148 unread messages from the Ranma 1/2 and 
Fanfic MLs and a few other files.  Time to change my password and hope it 
doesn't happen again.

	Rob "This has never happened to me before..." Orick

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Allegra: ... My story... was deleted...
Virgo: Twilight Chapters 1,2, and the 30% complete version of 3 were 
	destroyed, too... 
Zodiak: I WILL KILL WHOEVER DID THIS!!!!!!!  HOW COULD SOMEONE BREAK INTO 
	THIS ACCOUNT LIKE THAT?!

Dude - as a computer consultant I have a few pieces of advice.

	- new password - do not make it like the old one, not even in flavor
or style.  If you used anime-type passwords in the past try using football
terms or something.
	- try to pick a password that you can easily and quickly type that
no one else can read your fingers while you type it.  (One handed/ mostly
one handed passwords are extremely quick)
	- MAKE SURE YOUR PROTECTIONS ARE SET ON YOUR ACCOUNT  - If you left
a 'back door' in to your account by letting others have privs of being able
to read/write files in your account, they might just do it.
	- If you give your password to someone else (I DO NOT ADVISE THIS AT
ALL!) make sure they can be trusted and they are bright enough not to SCREW
UP!
	- Never leave your self logged on and leave the terminal unattended. 
I'm willing to bet that you left a terminal and forgot to log off and
someone took advantage of it.  I've seen this happen too many times (not to
mention it's happened to me)
	- One other thing - talk to your computer center and see if they can
get you back up your account.  My school has a policy of backing up the
systems at a MINIMUM of once a week.  So it may be possible to get back some
things you lost, and minimize the damage.

Hope this works out ok.
AlberCrombie

PS - I still have a lot of your personal mail to me if you need any of it.
 
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