![]() The blackmailer was trying to get me to cough up $6000 to keep quiet about some "online activity" that I'd supposedly been involved in – in fact, they said they had gained access to my computer and "recorded" me and unless I paid up, those recordings would be circulated to everyone in my contacts list. ![]() As it happened, one of my computers did indeed use that password (yes, a bad security practice on my part, I know!). ![]() I started receiving blackmail emails last year using my Evernote password in the subject line, clearly to get my attention and force me to open the mail! On opening the email, the sender said that they had my password and had accessed my computer. Multiple access from multiple countries in just one day! How is it that I only received a "suspicious activity" email now? How does this type of activity over a period of months not send red flags to the Evernote security team? I have also been receiving blackmail emails from multiple people – sometimes several a day – my "password" was mentioned in the subject line of the email. In just one day, my Evernote account was being accessed by a person in Indonesia, another in India, another in Jakarta, and so on. Firstly, I received my first notification from Evernote only last week, however, when logging into my Evernote account (prompted by the alert) and checking the activity report, hundreds of people have been gaining access to my account from various places around the globe for the past two months (this is as far back as my activity monitor appears to let me go – it has likely been going on for much longer than that). ![]() He said that one person using an iPhone obtained the username/password from another site and was 'trying' out the details in an attempt to obtain cryptocurrency information. Rich Tener from Evernote posted a reply to other concerns of the same nature. Hi, I received an email at the end of last week warning me of a security breach in my Evernote account. ![]()
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