Help! Someone or something is signing up for accounts on websites with my email.

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It's so weird. You see, I like tech stuff and coding. I have to gone to some websites about stuff like that, and when I go to make an account, it says my email is already taken! I am ABSOLUTELY sure I have never visited any of these before in my life. One of them was a free web hosting service. And this is where it really gets crazy! It says that I uploaded a website to it yesterday. And that is the exact same website that I put on a different web hosting service about a month ago!
And it says that all this was done chrome OS. That's what I use! And in another case like this, I had an account with a user name that I would never use, so I know it's not me. Please help!

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This will probably not get answered because it is not about coding, but I need to know.

Posted 28-May-20 13:57pm

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Updated 28-May-20 14:18pm

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F-ES Sitecore 29-May-20 7:06am

See if there is any connection between the two hosting services....they might both use the same reseller solution and maybe that solution isn't very good at keeping different reseller's client data separate.

[no name] 29-May-20 9:05am

ok

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Dave Kreskowiak · Accepted Answer · 2020-05-28T14:19:00

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Help? With what? There's nothing anyone can do to help you.

Forget that email address and create a new one on GMail or wherever you want, then start using the new one for all of your important stuff. If you have a method to kill the account on whatever host you have that email from, do so.

There is no other option.

Posted 28-May-20 14:19pm

Dave Kreskowiak

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[no name] 28-May-20 20:19pm

Ok, but is there any explanation?

phil.o 28-May-20 20:32pm

Yes: someone apparently managed to stole some informations about you. I would have a thourough check on my computer, if I were in the same situation. Maybe you have some sort of spyware. Or maybe it is just that you are using the same password on different places, and that one of them has been stolen. There is no way for us to tell for sure from where this comes. You should also change your existing passwords, and use a different one on each site. Password manager applications exist to help you with that. Anyway, you should consider any activity on your computer as highly risky until you have had it checked free from any malware/keylogger/spyware.

Maciej Los 29-May-20 2:03am

Sounds like an answer.

[no name] 29-May-20 9:06am

Thank you. I do think that I have some type of spyware. I was asking to be sure.

[no name] 29-May-20 13:40pm

Is there any safe spyware scanner for chromebook?

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