Unauthorized Access to My Computer
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My guess is your machine was compromised before clicking on a 13-G filing, or possibly during depending on the website you were on.
Consider your machine compromised, at the least. Try to pull down a virus scanner, malware scanner and see if it will find anything. You may also have recent browser extensions that could have been compromised.
Consider your machine compromised, at the least. Try to pull down a virus scanner, malware scanner and see if it will find anything. You may also have recent browser extensions that could have been compromised.
Thanks for the reply. I tried to post this on cybersecurity subreddit and it was immediately removed. I'm responding late because I didn't know how to find my post lol. New to this site.
Not too long ago, I was digging into fund activity, and just by chance clicked on a 13-G filing for SEAC, a company I had never heard of or searched before. This is where things get very unusual. I logged into my stocktwits account and noticed I had received a message from somebody inquiring about the same stock, SEAC.
I found this very unusual because it is thinly traded, and I had never mentioned it to anybody before. I compared the time of the stocktwits message to the time in my search history, and things became even more creepy. My history (which I hadn't cleared in several weeks) showed my first search for SEAC was at 8:22pm, September 05, 2019, and the message I received on stocktwits was at 8:34pm, only 10 minutes later.
In the message, the person requested I follow them so we could have a private conversation, and I immediately confronted the person about this strange time correlation. They just brushed it off. We talked for a bit longer than I said I had to go, and the next day I decided to screen record everything just in case.
When I confronted the person today, they again brushed it off, but this time I decided to be more forceful and said -- basically in laymen terms -- off and leave me alone, and this is where it gets very creepy. When I looked at my search history a few hours later, it had completely changed. It showed that I had been viewing SEAC once per day since the beginning of August.
No this is not all in my head, and I have video evidence. I also know that I do not follow that stock, and have never heard of it until last night. I am at a loss. I am at a complete loss as to what I am to do about this. Many possibilities come to mind. The fact that I am even posting this on this website (where i don't know anybody) is a testament to how irked I am by all this.