Has My Adwords Account Been Hacked?!

[benners]

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I have send a message to Google 3 times and had no response to this. I logged into my account which should contain a Speed Dating campaign with various ads for various cities, it know contains a campaign called "Sex" with no content? Has anyone any suggestions, have I been hacked?

[Shane]

hmmm daft question but you are in the right account ??, if you have more than one that is,

I've logged into the wrong one a few times and done the "what the feck" stare,

If it is right one seems a bit fishy to say the least, play about with your campiagn views, ie show all campaigns, then do reports , this should show if the campaigns were there but have been deleted and reports will show what day there were deleted as you have url/click details up to that day.

How easy was your password ? would think google would be able to see which IP's log into which account, altho having said that this is the "answers to no man" big G we are talking about.

If your password was unguessable then I'd say err get as much anti/spy/trojan/virus/ software and firewalls as you can cos someone got it somehow, I use alphannumeric passes and change them regularly like 21expedite31c .. kind of cuts the chances down and if someone finds it later then it don't matter cos you've changed it already by then

hope you get sorted

[benners]

Hi Shane, thanks for your help. Yes I only have one account and my password could have been more secure so it must have been hacked and I don't suppose google will bother responding.

[morleymouse]

seems a bit daft to me tho, to go to the effort of hacking an account and then not doing much with it.

they could have set numerous things up, stupidly high max bids, high bidding keywords etc and put you in a right mess.

guess your lucky!

[Shane]

Yup they could have set daft bids etc but the feckers deleted the lot which would cost even more and take more time to sort out ..

I know which I would rather suffer

[morleymouse]

they could have done both!

so I still think hes lucky