Keep your accounts safe, everyone

...because I learned it the hard way :/

While I'm not the most sociable person (although I've heard people claim otherwise), after a stressful week of moving house and being preoccupied with all sorts of things, I was really looking forward to this little event where I'd finally see a group of friends and bond over a mutual interest we have. Little did I know that while I was stuffing my face with KFC, all hell was breaking loose upon me.

It started with a notification on my tablet that I've logged in from a new device. I kinda ignored it, 'cuz I had pretty much just turned my 3g internet on and I thought it might be referring to that. Next thing I know, my telephone receives a text message, saying my 20$ payment just went through and almost immediately the people from my old bank called me to ask about a suspicious activity. At this point everything starts to turn and I ended up changing my google settings to request a second authentication through my tablet. That worked for about five minutes until the fucker went in and turned it off again. I won't fall into too much details, but I ended up calling my bank to block both my debit and credit cards, because I had even my bank account login info in there and he was obviously inside the banking account and was trying to make transactions to purchase bitcoins... The only reason he couldn't succeed was that transactions require a code to be completed and that code ends up being sent on my phone. My sweet, sweet qwerty keyboard phone who can barely run itself, let alone connect to the internet properly. Bless his little old ass soul <3
By the time we were leaving the place, I was pretty confident that this would be the end of it...
Nope! Got a call from a hidden number. That piece of shit even used a voice changing app and threatened me that if I want my accounts back, I have to give him a google code he's about to receive, otherwise I'll be dealing with police at my door every evening... Because he had that too. My old address was stored there, but I thought I would spare him the details of me moving just a few days ago. As soon as that code beeped into my ear, I closed the phone and dialed the emergency hotline, asking for help. They redirected me to the nearest precinct which then escalated to another visit this morning, this time to the cybercrimes unit... And of course, nothing much happened off of there. They did give me useful advice on how to start regaining control over my accounts and I have already began to work on that. But it's slow and frustrating... Not to mention scary, because I keep thinking he might end up getting in, even if all passwords are now new and even ore complex.

For some reason, he changed my name in multiple accounts. None of the names he left were real, of course, but it also makes me wonder why he even bothered.

My biggest issue with this whole ordeal, however, is the fact that he is STILL trying to get into my email. I'm guessing he's using some sort of software, because the attempts are every 5 minutes. To the second!!

Too bad for him he's not very smart and he left his actual IP address in there.
I'm going to the police tonight to file a complaint.

Wish me luck!

And if you wanna get some wisdom out of all of this:
Don't store passwords on your computer and maybe use two-step authentication.

Sorry for the wall of text, but every time I refresh the login history of my email, I freak out every time a new attempt appears and I just wanted to let this all out.

Stinky bun tax. I don't have a cat.