This has me stumped. Do you think I may have been hacked?

I have just realised something.
I do know a Trevor Blackford. He was the handy man here and I sold him my old laptop.
He has never had access to this laptop so I do not understand what has happened.
I drove to the bank and my money is still there.
So that is a relief.
Tried to ring Trevor just now but went through to message bank.
Got me stumped how his name has replaced my name.
 
Bretrick said:
I have just realised something.
I do know a Trevor Blackford. He was the handy man here and I sold him my old laptop.
He has never had access to this laptop so I do not understand what has happened.
I drove to the bank and my money is still there.
So that is a relief.
Tried to ring Trevor just now but went through to message bank.
Got me stumped how his name has replaced my name.
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Change all your passwords just to be on the safe side....
 
Bretrick said:
I have just realised something.
I do know a Trevor Blackford. He was the handy man here and I sold him my old laptop.
He has never had access to this laptop so I do not understand what has happened.
I drove to the bank and my money is still there.
So that is a relief.
Tried to ring Trevor just now but went through to message bank.
Got me stumped how his name has replaced my name.
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This might happen if you set up the old laptop as part of your home network, in other words, if you connected all your devices. If you did then you should be able to go into your new laptop or your PC and disconnect the device you sold to Trevor, or call him and tell him to disconnect from your network. Or have a pro do it.
 
In your browser (only ones I'm familiar with are Firefox, Silk & Chrome) there is a setting that you can save (userids & passwords).
 
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Bretrick said:
I do know a Trevor Blackford. He was the handy man here and I sold him my old laptop.
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Ah, the plot thickens...I figured there was "something" in Real Life that transpired; what you described initially didn't sound like a 'hacker'(proper term: cracker).
Just for the record: IMO the likelihood of an individual's computer being targeted are low, usually a credit card company or retail company's database will be breached, ending up with millions of customer's information being stolen.
 
Nathan said:
Ah, the plot thickens...I figured there was "something" in Real Life that transpired; what you described initially didn't sound like a 'hacker'(proper term: cracker).
Just for the record: IMO the likelihood of an individual's computer being targeted are low, usually a credit card company or retail company's database will be breached, ending up with millions of customer's information being stolen.
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That was my thought as well. Why would little ole me be targeted? Anyways, I am resting a little easier now that I have a gist of what has gone down.
 
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Well, the month of December began with a BANG for us. Our laptop suddenly started acting strange and then crashed. Yet, somehow.... Microsoft was sending us messages to call them. They asked for information; hubby gave them info (banking) and we were almost hacked out of $20K (one of our savings). It took two weeks to get it all back to normal which included many changes.

What angers me is how easily the bank almost agreed to the wire transfer... had my husband not called the bank. It was that close. As soon as the dust settles we intend to change banks. We both almost had a heart attack; I kid you not.

My husband knows better than to offer this info and I have yet to understand his actions. I wasn't aware of it happening until I got home from errands.

They got very close to acquiring our money but did not succeed. Needless to say, hubby has learned his lesson. I felt sorry for him during this trying time and couldn't sleep.

People (hackers) are desperate out there and will do anything for money. They should try getting a job.
 
If the old computer was used on your home wireless wifi network, Immediately chage the login pw for that network.
In all probability, the answer to you question is, "Yes".
 

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