Hacking into one's life in cyber world!

One of the most disturbing things to happen to me this week was having both my hotmail and gmail accounts hacked in one fell swoop! Well, for any average person these days, it is bad enough when this should happen to you with one email account, but to suddenly find your life has crunched to a standstill, and that you are now persona non grata among friends, followers in cyber-sphere simply because all your social networking is linked up through your online identities which have now been sabotaged - well, it sure was a ghastly experience folks! The day - October 3rd to be precise, kicked off with one friend calling to check whether I was actually still alive and well, because she had just received a message from my account telling her I was is Madrid, and in urgent need of Euro 1,500, and to send the money through an account that had been created through Western Union.She sounded chagrined and more accusatory than solicitous, telling me to put a stop to it now! This was followed thick and fast by messages and phone calls all day long from friends and associates - some of whom I hadn't heard of in years - asking what on earth was happening, and was I ok? Madness enough believe me, but what would you say to DEWA suddenly deciding to switch off power on the given day in the area I lived in.....catastrophic? Yeah....it was actually nightfall before I managed to get hotmail to send me a link to reset my password and regain access to my account - the entire beleagured inbox was in a strangeChinese script - which made one wonder at how these guys had even managed to gain access to my accounts to start with. And for all of you out there who have not yet been victimised by the nasty hackers, please beware....the first indication you'll get that you are next in line for this sort of cybercrime will be in the form of a mail that comes to you asking you to verify the account details. DON'T DO IT!