First Contact
The Hatbot Chronicles⌗
SIGNAL⌗
As written about here, a suspicious foam Astros hat was left upon my front lawn on my second day of work.
ANALYSIS⌗
This hat, combined with the character HatBot listed here, would trigger paranoia in me. I would come to suspect that The Asshat may actually be spying on my digital activity.
This was further supported by what happened later that evening.
The Hacker⌗
SIGNAL⌗
As elaborated upon, two accounts would be hacked a couple of hours later.
The first was my 401k. I have since lost that text message, but here is the email confirmation from after I changed my password:
The second was my Amazon account:
ANALYSIS⌗
One hacked account is not a concern. Two is something to be paranoid about.
Both accounts were using long, 24-character, randomly-generated and unique passwords (such as “aSbw7dLbd#134768$M5nj8Qf”). The fact that both were compromised within such a short period of time was worrying.
My mind immediately considered that my computer may be compromised. Someone may have access to my password vault, LastPass.
ACTION⌗
I changed both passwords, and deleted everything I shouldn’t have from my computer.
While I publicly-claimed that I rebuilt my computer, I never actually did this.
If I was caught, then I was caught. There was no use trying to hide from it.
I decided to allow my hacker to study me.