Little Scare: Update (Patreon)

For those of you who have been keeping up since this morning's post:

I received a message this morning saying that the payout information associated with my account had been changed and my account was temporarily on hold (This is normal.  Any time you change something involving payment, Patreon locks all funds for a couple of days, then sends out a message to the creator in question to confirm that they were actually the person who made those changes.)  

Instead of replying directly to the message, I instead went to the Patreon page and sent a message directly to support that way.  For the last three hours, we have been messaging back and forth concerning the issue as we work to resolve it.

Turns out that someone DID log into my account with my information (No idea how that information would have gotten out, I use a unique password for most everything, but regardless, somehow someone got that info.) and if I understand correctly, what they did was go into my payment information and replaced my own PayPal information with their own.

It sounds like Patreon was able to trace and isolate the IP of the person(s?) responsible and are taking whatever action they deem fit on their own end.  In addition to that, I've updated all of my own information on this end.

My next step will be to reboot my computer, run a full virus and malware scan, double check all of my Patreon related information, then set up a second layer of security that was suggested to me by Patreon's support department.

Its a pain in the tush, its not what I had planned to do with my day, but at least I'm on the home stretch of it and should be able to get a little more writing done in an hour or so.