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Lonewolf

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Message 57504 - Posted: 9 Nov 2014, 21:51:08 UTC
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My account as well as most of my projects I believe have been compromised
by a hacker from Oman. Some of my username and passwords for certain projects
look as if they no longer exist. I was able to shut him out before he could do total damage (but apparently he was able to get some of my information.).
Is there a way I can recover programs in question (Seti@home and asteroids@home.). These two projects that I tried to log in to them kept telling me that there were no projects of this type for my username or password.
I was able to log in and set up a different project successfully, but cannot access my previous project accounts including my main boinc log in.
I have been a member of BOINC since about 1997.

Any help would be appreciated.
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Message 57505 - Posted: 9 Nov 2014, 22:09:42 UTC - in response to Message 57504.  
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Log onto Your Setiathome Account using your email address and password (on their web site), If you can log on, you can change your email address or password,
If you're gorgotten your password or email address you can hit the forgotten password/email address link, and eithier log on via your authenticator or reset your password.

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Message 57507 - Posted: 9 Nov 2014, 22:30:54 UTC - in response to Message 57504.  

My account as well as most of my projects I believe have been compromised
by a hacker from Oman.

I wonder why you feel so specifically that a hacker from Oman has done something to your accounts. What would his gain be for him?

Some of my username and passwords for certain projects look as if they no longer exist.

Projects use the email address and password combination, only World Community Grid uses as far as I know the actual username and password. The email address is the unique identifier.

Is there a way I can recover programs in question (Seti@home and asteroids@home.)

As stated by Claggy, you can ask both projects to email you a 24 hour login link, or use the authenticator key of either project to log in. That's explained on their sites.
For Seti use this link: https://setiathome.berkeley.edu//get_passwd.php
For Asteroids use this link: http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/get_passwd.php (but wait for the project to come back online first, as it appears to have an outage of sorts).

I have been a member of BOINC since about 1997.

BOINC is the successor of Seti@Home. Seti@Home started in 1999 and ended in 2005. In 2002 BOINC started development, with it going live on the 26th of August 2004 when Climateprediction.net went live for the public.
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