Potential Outing Disaster

This past week has the chance to be a potential disaster for me,  so pay attention to what I am about to say because it may help you!!

When I first joined the online spanking world,  indeed computers in general,  I ran everything from one email account for I knew no better. It isn’t that big of a deal,  right? As time went on I realized that it was probably best to have a different account for spanking related material,  however,  I had made many friends on the old one so I kept that one going for the friends who knew me a little better. That one email address has been my regular email for more than a decade now,  even though I stopped using it for spanko related stuff a long time ago.

Are you ready for the disaster though?

This week my account was hacked and all of my email contacts were sent spam from my address. Even addresses that weren’t saved as contacts were emailed. Each email was sent out in groups of 5,  so my Houndog_windsor yahoo email was on the same grouping as my Houndog_windsor gmail,  so both received the same email. Are you with me so far? Because it only gets better from here.

While I am an open person,  my family and my workplace do not need to know about my lifestyle choices,  but some of them may have just found out!!

My mom had contacted me about receiving an email but thankfully she is not tech savvy at all,  even though her CC list had some dead giveaway’s. Likewise,  I was on the same email grouping as my Brother and that CC list was normal. This is where the fun starts though.

My Landlady is listed as Mrs ******,  therefore here email grouping included two other Mrs’,  and yes,  both of them have the word spank in them!! Not only that but my richardwindsor@richardwindsor.com email is listed in my contacts as “My site”,  therefore,  because I received that email myself,  it was also included on that Landlady email. One quick look at richardwindsor.com and that could present a problem for me regarding my living situation.

It gets worse though. While no work email address is in my contact list,  I have emailed work from parties that I have attended. One of the addresses that I have emailed has been a global email account and included on that email list from the hack was the following,  richardwindsor@strictlyspankingvideos.com!! Now while that email will get flagged as spam that only the admins can see,  those admins just so happen to be my bosses!! That alone has the potential to be a disaster!! Because I am evasive at work regarding my trips they already know that there is a part of my life that I hide,  just a quick check of the spam and I could be fucked.

Here is the bottom line,  NEVER use your personal email for spanking related emails,  create a new email address. Basically everyone I have ever emailed received a spam email from me and they were sent in groups of 5. Because I never received most of them,  I have no idea which groups received what,  and by that I mean that I have no idea who was CC’ed on each one. I know of a few because I received the email myself so I could see who was on each one,  but most of them I am totally unaware of who shared what with who.

I won’t know for a few days just how much of a disaster this will be,  but I have a feeling that this is going to inadvertently out me to a number of people who I have yet to share my life with. Be sure to protect yourself and separate your email addresses!!

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9 thoughts on “Potential Outing Disaster

  1. In the immortal words of Corporal Jones ‘don’t panic’

    A similar, though less drastic, hack happened to me.

    Your get out of jail card for al but the most tech savvy is the fact that you were hacked and therefore ‘strange email content’ may be be attributed to the hacker

    ‘Why would anyone want to discredit me me..?’ etc

  2. That’s a bummer Richard,

    but I think Kev is right. I was hacked a few years back and all kinds of porn was added to my list that genuinely had nothing to with me and no one thought it did afterwards as far as I am aware.

    It is all very disconcerting though.

    Good luck

  3. I appreciate the comments guys. I’m really not too worried other than the work situation, I know in the past that I have emailed all the top dogs from my personal address. The bottom line is that the guy who runs it all is not only tech savvy to the max, but he is also Mr. Snoopy McSnoopster. Intrusive would be an understatement.

    As usual I have less to lose than most would as I am pretty open, but I think there may be some who heed this warning, especially if prying eyes are trying to find something on them.

  4. Rich,

    So sorry this has happened to you. This sucks!

    I have always maintained separate email addresses. And not just two, I have several for several purposes. Only once have I used an address for something vanilla that I also used primarily for my spanking related stuff, and that was the university I attended. I still get alumni letters there! HA! But I have always been super conscious of this.

    Hope it ends up being much of nothing overall. Worst case scenario, you can always move to Cincinnati! 😀 (or the Kentucky countryside)

    Sarah <3

  5. Happened to me but got it cleaned up quicky and no real harm to me. So sorry this happened to you. My hacker was identified as being in France. Really messed me up but thankfully no harm done overall.
    So sorry, hang in there
    Ron

  6. I am so sorry this happened to you Richard. Maybe nothing will happen at your work place and they chalk it up to being hacked; in spite of being very techy. This is something we all should consider so I thank you for the warning.

    Hang in there. May the perp be found out and arrested.

  7. Richard,

    So sorry to hear about your troubles! The illusion of privacy is a difficult one to keep up, nowadays… I hope everything works out for the best and I’m keeping my fingers crossed!

    xo,
    SC

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