Hacked!

Oh the embarrassment. Under the assumption that regular readers of this blog are also people I know, there’s a good chance that you received an email from my personal email account with no subject and a link.

First of all, if you ever get an email from me with no subject, do not trust it. Unlike iPhone users who seem to do it all the time (don’t you get a warning?) I do not send emails without subject lines.

So how did it happen? I’ve been wracking my brain on that one.

Given the timing, I suspect it happened from my phone. I came home from work and stopped off for a quick beer. I was surfing the web via Google Reader. There was one moment where it jumped strangely to an ad. At the time I was either reading the Washington Post or Wired, so it didn’t really concern me. It wasn’t a porn ad or anything (honestly, the strangest web site I subscribe to via Google Reader is Dan Song’s blog, and I’m pretty sure it didn’t come from there). I read a wide variety of tech blogs and political blogs, but nothing strange enough that I’d expect malware.

But something clearly got my Google contact list and sent out spam. Actually, this makes you realize how many ancient email addresses are in your contact list.

Anyway, if you got it, I apologize. And if I ever figure out how you’ll be the first to know.