Get this torrent (Get torrent file) Description xx Flight of the Intruder by Stephen Coonts EPUB Hailed as the finest combat aviation novel to emerge from the Vietnam War, Flight of the Intruder spent 28 weeks on the New York Times hardcover best-seller list and became one of the top-20 best-selling first novels of all time.
So I have this terrible habit of downloading pirated games through torrents to try them out and see how it runs on my rig and if I do like the game, I go ahead and buy it.
I've been busy for the last couple of months with travel, etc and didn't really download any pirated software or torrents. Last weekend I felt like trying out a strategy game called 'Steam Punk' and I downloaded a torrent from PirateBay. It did have a few red flags like the size was just 400mb etc. Since it was a small indie game, I chose ignore the flags. Right after the setup was complete I realized I might have installed a virus. I didn't have any Anti-Virus installed other than the stock Win 1`0 defender and it did not detect the virus. Ads started playing on my computer and a million processes were running and it was impossible for me to end each process individually since they kept restarting . So, I downloaded avast and performed a full system scan and then a start up scan and it could not clean up the virus. 'Juris.exe' was one of the main apps that was running which I believe is one of the virus.
Either way, after the failed attempt to clean up the computer, I decided to fresh install the windows and format all my drives. I used the Win 10 reset option to wipe clean everything. Since my Win 10 and my Microsoft Office is linked to my Microsoft Live account, I could retrieve those keys after the fresh install. I finally got rid of the virus and spent the whole Saturday reinstalling apps and stuff. I thought there were no consequences of the virus other than having to fresh install the operating system and I was wrong.
Yesterday, I realized my Bank of America checking account was short of $5000. When I looked up the recent transactions there were five $`1000 Zelle transfers to some stranger's email address. I was quite surprised since I never got any notification email of the transfers or the stranger's email being added as a recipient. I called up the bank and after getting transferred to various departments, they finally shut down my account and launched a fraud investigation. They said they will get back to me with their investigation results in 10 days and meanwhile they made me open a new checking account and reset my online account ID and password.
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So, after dealing with the bank, I started digging around to see why exactly the bank failed to notify me about the transfers or a recipient being added without me authorizing it and in addition to that, how exactly did the hacker know the answer to my secret question since BofA asks a secret question every time there is a login from a new computer. I started to suspect if some one used my phone or my computer to authorize those transfers. My ex-girlfried whom I dumped last week was my first suspect. I checked the Bank account sign in history and there were a bunch of Web logins into my account. Almost every hour. Looks like the hacker was trying to transfer money but since Zelle has a $1000 intra day transfer limit, they couldn't transfer more than $`1000 a day. I rarely check my bank account on my computer so clearly someone else had access to my account before BofA reset my ID and password. When I checked the account activity notifications in the BofA website, it mentioned that the bank did send notifications of recipient being added, an authorization code for the recipient to be added and five successful $`1000 transfer emails. I go check my gmail account and couldn't find those emails either in the inbox or in the trash. I go check the sign in history of my google account and saw that my gmail was accessed using my computer but from a location about 120 miles from where I live, around the same time the last transfer was initiated. Google usually notifies me when a new device is used to sign in but in this case it didn't since google thought it was me who was accessing it from a 'known' device. That's when I realized that during the interval between installing the virus and fresh installing the windows (about 6 hours), the hackers could gather my device signature/mac/ID as well as all my saved passwords (I use Chrome to save passwords and I linked my gmail to my chrome so that I can retrieve the saved passwords across all my android devices). They definitely did not access my accounts from my computer since it definitely was switched off around the time they last accessed my email and also the location was different.
So, I finally could connect all the dots.
I downloaded and installed a virus through torrents.
The hackers gathered all my device information (MAC ID/Device ID/Name) as well as my Chrome passwords while I ran virus scans and prepared to clean install my computer's operating system
They could fool Google, Bank of America and bunch of other websites (including my 401k Vanguard and my TD Ameritrade margin account) by pretending to access them from my computer ('known' device) but from a different IP using the stolen device information and the saved passwords.
They added a Zelle email recipient to my Bank of America account and transferred max daily amount until the day I found out.
Since they had access to my gmail, they could authorize the recipient as well as delete their activity notifications from email inbox and trash before I get an email notification on my phone.
Bank of America is currently conducting a fraud investigation on those transfers but considering how the hack happened, I think my chances of recovering any of it are very slim. I say that because, according to Bank of America, the account was accessed using a 'known' device and all the protocols were followed for adding a recipient, authorizing a recipient and to transfer the money. What they do not know is that hackers had access to my email as well. Sure, the IP may not be the same as mine, but since the device ID is mine, they can definitely conclude the investigation against my favor.
I have no hopes of recovering the money and I've already come to terms with it but just wanted y'all to be aware of how dangerous it can be if someone could get a hold of your device information and combine it with access to your saved passwords (or just your primary email). After this hack, I changed all my passwords, added 2 Factor Authentication when possible and no longer have any saved passwords nor have any device as a trusted device. This whole episode made me realize how vulnerable I was when my primary gmail account got compromised (especially since I have chrome saving passwords to my gmail account).
Since my saved passwords included my Netflix, Hulu, Spotify, and other subscriptions, I am pretty sure the hacker must have sold them on dark web.
TLDR: Downloaded a torrent and got virus instead. Hackers got my device information and my saved passwords including to my bank account and its linked gmail account. Hackers spoofed my device information and used my passwords to circumvent the 'new device login' and added a Zelle recipient and authorized it using their access to my email and kept transferring the max daily amount. Since they had access to my email, they kept deleting those activity emails so that I never got any email notification on my phone.
Lesson Learned: No more torrents, No more saved passwords, no more 'trusted' devices, have 2FA whenever possible.
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Update: The investigator who handled my case called. Asked a bunch of questions. I explained her everything and all the precautions I've taken ever since. Right after the call ended, the money was transferred to my account.
