HAVE YOU BEEN HACKED ?? I WAS TOO.

Technology has never been this scary to me before.

It happened today.

I had never gave much thought to hacking, privacy, and another kind of technology-related things untill now.
I was checking my Gmail and went through my span as I always do. I saw a mail saying Recorded videos of YOU.
And out of curiosity I opened the mail and there was my mail id’s password though an old one, and there was written things like I have access to your webcam and microphone and I have recorded your videos and I will be sending it to all your contacts and will uploading it on sites where sick people are. And they claimed 1200$ for settling it down.

The moment I read that, I was shocked and scared as hell. I swear for a moment I went all blank. I couldn’t process what has happened. I called my close friend and told him about and he just changed the password and said you have been hacked. These words were more troublesome for me. Being a girl that too who isn’t tech-savvy I didn’t know what to do, I was feeling helpless and terrified of what’s going to happen now.

I was on the verge of crying and called my best friend, she was at a loss for words and she said talk to someone who might know about cybersecurity-related things. We were three girls at the conference talking about it and I realized, all this was going on but never for a moment it crossed my mind that I should talk to my family. I couldn’t even think of it, because what would they say or how would they react to this, what they going to think of me. So, I talked to one of my friends who have some knowledge of all this hacking world. And he said he will look into that. I talked with my brother, he too said it just spam and nothing to worry about.

But being a girl, someone saying to me that they will be leaking out my personal information, scared me to death. I was crying for some moment. And then I tried to calm down and wait for my friend’s confirmation. He then calls me back and said it’s just spam nothing to worry about but be careful what and how you use technology. I have the option to file complaint in cyber security regarding this and I’ll definitely think about it.
I will be lying if I say I am not scared of technology now. I am terrified. Luckily it was a scam but for the people who have been victims of cybercrimes, what they have been through I can only imagine. We don’t know who can use our personal data when and where and how.

We, humans, tend to find negative uses of anything good and then suffer because of it.

From today onward I am going to use technology with precautions.
Stay safe you all.