Has my account been hacked?

Communities Science, Engineering, & Security
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Today I woke up to find a reply to something that I made on a social media account.

it was some celebrity saying something stupid and my response was “oh fasg”
I did not make this response, I looked though my login history and did not find any ip address that where not mine I did that same thing with the email associated with this account and found nothing

Was this possibly some kind of bug or was I hacked into? My password was not changed but it also would not have been impossible to guess, but there are no traces of anyone being in my account but me

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If this is a one time thing, maybe

If this behavior continues, then obviously yes.

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You are Elliot, and I claim my £5.

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I do not understand you

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Don't worry, I'm used to it :-)

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I'm very sorry to hear that there was a bug in the system. I understand that it can be frustrating and even infuriating at times. Although I don't know you I think it's great that you are taking a proactive approach to the situation. Thanks for the story!

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If the social media in question is facebook in particular go and disable all third party apps and should be good

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I feel like some of you might be robots ether trying to get past the spam filter or pass the turing test not sure which.

I suppose for a spam bot to be effective passing the turing test would help so.. maybe both?

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This, change the password and, if 2 step verification isn't enabled, enable that.

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Nah, to pass a turing test you need to convince a human you are human, a spam filter is just code. If we extend your logic you might be the only human on this entire forum - just talking to yourself. Maybe you are Elliot ;-)

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mods act as spam filters too ya know also I clearly don't get the Elliot reference

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My friend was reading this over my shoulder and it went right over his head too. It took him twenty minutes to figure it out. He sure was committed to figuring it out though. We can't stand it when jokes go over our heads. But maybe that's because we both enjoy a good laugh.

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Bonjour Elliot!

Peut-être que vous étiez ivre hier soir?

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Am i Elliot because I'm harboring a space man who loves reese's pieces?

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I'm not quite sure what that means.

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Spend at least 20 minutes figuring it out and go hard or you'll never get it.

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Close (well, not really) but I like your style, the true Elliot definately knows how to phone home, although he might forget who lived there...