What a day to start the week...
My main adwords account has been hacked into since I last accessed it last night and they have managed to put me back by 600+ pounds while I slept.
They modified an existing dormant adgroup and added a generic keyword 'jobs' and that piled up nearly 900 clicks. Then a new US campaign was added with an adcopy as below
Good Assistants Needed
Job. DHL Mail Services
$90,000 per year. P/T
DHLMailJob.com - This domain seems to have spammer links.
Keywords were jobs , best jobs, good jobs time jobs, job s .
I have escalated the issue to adwords support and their specialist team is investigating. My "googling" since morning says that I
am not the first one to suffer this.
Google may suspend my account and start a new one but I
am not sure if I want to go down that path if I lose my history or more importantly QS.
What I
am wondering is how it could have happened given that I
am behind a router with a laptop with Windows Vista and Kaspersky Anti-Virus. The adwords account used a not so simple password which is not used anywhere else like public forums. So the whole thing makes it scary.
Now my questions are -
1. Anyone else here affected by this?
2. How they could manage this ?
3. What can I do to prevent this from occuring again ?
Thanks and Regards
Anjitha