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Back in 1999 my good lady wife let me piggy-back on to her work server ( fnarr fnarr) and have one of them new fangled email addresses for myself until
some years later I got myself a proper grown up gmail address because the original one at btconnect.com was decommissioned. Or so we thought.
Like moving house, I set up a forward function from the btconnect to the new gmail and all went well for years.
Today I got a an email at my gmail address forwarded from the old btconnect address telling me that some git had changed my Twitter password.
I thought this was a scam until I checked my Twitter account settings and sure enough the sneaky toerags had managed to hack the account. But.....using the allegedly defunct btconnect email address I had set up the Twitter account with many moons ago.
So... for any tech guru who can solve this one.....how on earth can a btconnect server that they tell me is closed still be receiving and forwarding emails?
Or have they left it open and just fibbed because they cant be arsed to track down and properly close it down?
In the meantime how can I protect my current online presence when i cannot get access to a bt server address that allegedly no longer exists?
Many thanks in advance.
some years later I got myself a proper grown up gmail address because the original one at btconnect.com was decommissioned. Or so we thought.
Like moving house, I set up a forward function from the btconnect to the new gmail and all went well for years.
Today I got a an email at my gmail address forwarded from the old btconnect address telling me that some git had changed my Twitter password.
I thought this was a scam until I checked my Twitter account settings and sure enough the sneaky toerags had managed to hack the account. But.....using the allegedly defunct btconnect email address I had set up the Twitter account with many moons ago.
So... for any tech guru who can solve this one.....how on earth can a btconnect server that they tell me is closed still be receiving and forwarding emails?
Or have they left it open and just fibbed because they cant be arsed to track down and properly close it down?
In the meantime how can I protect my current online presence when i cannot get access to a bt server address that allegedly no longer exists?
Many thanks in advance.
