Wifi Hackers Beware: I Was Hacked BIG Time!
By Shavkat
@Shavkat (139401)
Philippines
March 29, 2017 7:49am CST
Everything is fine.
A simple birthday celebration was a success. One of the visitors told me that neighbors and he can access wifi for free. The neighbors are living next to our house. With such curiosity, I had checked my visitor's internet connection and it was mine. Of course, I cannot say anything and pretend nothing happened.
How can this happen? My internet service provider (ISP) has a wifi password. So I tried to enter PLDT portal and can't access. I need to change my wifi password because the neighbors are stealing my internet. It has been 2 hours that I can't access the portal.
I don't give up that easily. But this time, I don't need to be techy. The last option is to call the internet service provider. OMG! That's the reason why I can get in the ISP portal; because they are having a problem too.
I really bombarded the customer services with one BIG question: "Why my neighbors can access my wifi?" The neighbors can access the wifi because the password is in default. The wifi hackers can easily see the default password and ISP.
My eyes are wide-open and cannot able to talk much with anger. I asked them to change my preferred password and let these wifi hackers cry hopelessly. They had been having free wifi for more than a year. Why wifi hacker app is included to modern gadgets? It should be banned and be removed. It is still a CYBER CRIME!
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22 responses
@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
29 Mar 17
Oh that is so bad to steal your internet connection. Hope it gets fixed. They already exhausted their parasitism for a year.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
29 Mar 17
it's terrible how people would rather find ways to get something for free
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@cacay1 (83334)
• Cagayan De Oro, Philippines
29 Mar 17
@nottoooldtowrite they are criminals.
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@nottoooldtowrite (2715)
• Philippines
29 Mar 17
@hereandthere instead of finding ways to earn for it.
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@magallon (19279)
• Philippines
29 Mar 17
That's what i keep telling PLDT but they don't believe me. There is an app in the internet where the people can use to access wifi of their neighbors even if it has a password. I came to know about this when my office assistant told me that they are using their neighbor's wifi.
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@allknowing (135357)
• India
29 Mar 17
Wifi is a sharing concept but with separate passwords. It can leak and so I have not got one.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
29 Mar 17
what if it's an inside job? who else knows the ins and outs but those who work there?
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@Shavkat (139401)
• Philippines
31 Mar 17
@hereandthere I think they cannot fix it. The ISP portal for this particular PLDT fiber optic cannot be accessed. They can fix it in their system.
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@hereandthere (45645)
• Philippines
30 Mar 17
@Shavkat i'm not surprised that it came from their own employees. i'm also doubtful they can stop it.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Mar 17
See if they sort that problem out pretty quick.
I always tell my kids of the dangers of Wifi but they do not listen.
I only hope it does not happen to them either.
Good thing you told them.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
29 Mar 17
@Shavkat
Anyway hope they fix it up for you as not a good situation at all for anyone who is online.
Here´s to that they fix it right quick.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Mar 17
@Shavkat
I would say it is as well.
We do not have WiFi here as they don´t supply such a small Village like us.
Even so its certainly something to worry about.
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@Shavkat (139401)
• Philippines
30 Mar 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 Don't worry. The ISP was able to fix withing 30 minutes duration. I think the concern is a serious matter.
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@epiffanie (11326)
• Australia
30 Mar 17
OMG! I didn't even know that there's a wifi hacker app ..
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@ShifaLk (17817)
• India
31 Mar 17
@Shavkat oh I see. I understand now that how can they get the password even if it's default.
Actually, here in my modem the password was always 12345678 and same for my brother's
So I thought it was like that...That anyone could guess it.
But now are you able to change it?
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@subhajitsil6 (961)
• Kolkata, India
29 Mar 17
i don't believe there is some wifi hacker app most of them are fake and are unable to make much guess. So they perhaps knows the default password so was able to get access to you internet, but if you have used a complicated password, no apps will be able to decode it, as per my knowledge.
And as per cyber crime, do you really think this little thing can be used as an crime.
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@subhajitsil6 (961)
• Kolkata, India
29 Mar 17
@Shavkat Oh I see, but over here all the application that we have in play store they are fake. And none of them can detect a password. Anyways so how are you protecting your wifi now?
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@subhajitsil6 (961)
• Kolkata, India
29 Mar 17
@Shavkat Aw.. So thats' the thing. I was really unaware of that.
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@snowy22315 (179768)
• United States
30 Mar 17
Yes, I think changing default passwords is always in order!
@LeaPea2417 (37337)
• Toccoa, Georgia
29 Mar 17
I hope it can get fixed, that is so wrong for those neighbors to have hacked into your wifi.
@ridingbet (66854)
• Philippines
30 Mar 17
you should have your own password, my friend. as for us here, our neighbor has PLDT my DSL and they have their own password.
@Shwetasingh (1333)
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30 Mar 17
Omg that's the worst think which has happened. Hope it must have fixed.
