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I was sitting there making an "Archives" file on my 3TB LaCie backup disk to backup documents and other files that had already served their purpose but I didn't what to delete permanently...
All of a sudden, the file I had just made along with one or two other files were had just been erased and my iPhoto Library had become a file folder and I couldn't restore. As I was sitting there trying to figure our what happened and pressing Command+z to try and reverse the damage, all my other files started disappearing - all my movies, pictures, TV programs, documents and everything from the last 15 years is just GONE! I'm in complete shock!
Was this the work of a hacker? As my folders were disappearing, I also noticed that Terminal was opened and I didn't open it.
I entered the command, dscl . list /Users and in the output, were two accounts I didn't recognize - "daemon" and "nobody", but these came up on my MacBook as well.
Is there anything more I can do to find out if I've been hacked?
What about my disc? I know there are utilities out there to restore lost data from discs, but I also know that the best ones are exorbitantly expensive. I would pay good money, but not an insane amount to have that disc restored. Recommendations? Thoughts?
All of a sudden, the file I had just made along with one or two other files were had just been erased and my iPhoto Library had become a file folder and I couldn't restore. As I was sitting there trying to figure our what happened and pressing Command+z to try and reverse the damage, all my other files started disappearing - all my movies, pictures, TV programs, documents and everything from the last 15 years is just GONE! I'm in complete shock!
Was this the work of a hacker? As my folders were disappearing, I also noticed that Terminal was opened and I didn't open it.
I entered the command, dscl . list /Users and in the output, were two accounts I didn't recognize - "daemon" and "nobody", but these came up on my MacBook as well.
Is there anything more I can do to find out if I've been hacked?
What about my disc? I know there are utilities out there to restore lost data from discs, but I also know that the best ones are exorbitantly expensive. I would pay good money, but not an insane amount to have that disc restored. Recommendations? Thoughts?
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