Thunderbird

[kellysemail1128]

I have the mozilla thunderbird add on for my tablet. I dont know much about it at all. I was just browsing through the offidoc stuff and i see some documents on my thing. I never signed in or anything so i thought this was odd. I opened it up and it was weird random things in spanish and i think french. I then went to the top and clicked files then open and then it took me to what looks like what would be on a computer when you go to open up all your files. I then see something that says open in another location so i click that. It then brings me to 'this computer' which has 131.12GB of memory used and thousands of different files that ARE NOT MINE!! Am i seeing the persons files who has hacked my tablet?? What is all of this? Someone please explain and help.

 

[Hadron]

It would be a very poor hacker who gave you access to their files.

So OK, let's start at the beginning. And please explain everything in detail, don't assume that what you have on your device is what anyone else has. My first questions are "what is this Thunderbird add on for your tablet?" and "what model/OS is your tablet?". Because I'm not aware of any Thunderbird version for Android (and I've used Thunderbird as my main email client across Linux, Mac and even Windows for a very long time), and it's hard to say very much about what the behaviour you see might mean if I don't know what app you are talking about.

 

[svim]

Thunderbird is itself an email client application, and it's not an Android app. So with Thunderbird (on a desktop or laptop) you can install add-ons, but you can't install it as an add-on to an Android web browser or email app. Please clarify just what app you're actually referring to, that might help reveal what kind of data you're viewing.

 

[kellysemail1128]

It would be a very poor hacker who gave you access to their files.
So OK, let's start at the beginning. And please explain everything in detail, don't assume that what you have on your device is what anyone else has. My first questions are 'what is this Thunderbird add on for your tablet?' and 'what model/OS is your tablet?'. Because I'm not aware of any Thunderbird version for Android (and I've used Thunderbird as my main email client across Linux, Mac and even Windows for a very long time), and it's hard to say very much about what the behaviour you see might mean if I don't know what app you are talking about.

I have a tablet. I use mozilla Firefox as my browser. If yiu click on the menu, you can see history, settings, and theres also add ons, (like an extenstion) i click that, then i typed in thunderbird. Its an email thing but its run by offidoc it says. Ill try to post some photos. Basicslly i see THIUSANDS of saved files on here that are not mine.

 

[kellysemail1128]

Thunderbird is itself an email client application, and it's not an Android app. So with Thunderbird (on a desktop or laptop) you can install add-ons, but you can't install it as an add-on to an Android web browser or email app. Please clarify just what app you're actually referring to, that might help reveal what kind of data you're viewing.

I installed it as an addon on mozilla on my tablet. Its not an app. Ill post some photos

 

[kellysemail1128]

My add on for thunderbird on mozilla and this is the comouter i somehow have access to thriugh my tablet.

 

[Hadron]

So it's a browser-based interface to a third-party service that will show you your email in the browser. It isn't from Mozilla and it isn't Thunderbird. Maybe they are using Thunderbird and echoing it to your browser, or maybe they are just using the name.

Anyway you've not been hacked. For whatever reason this sloppy piece of code is letting you see files on the server they use to present people's mail to them. Doesn't fill me with confidence about that company's security. But the key thing here is that you are looking at a web page: none of this stuff is on your tablet, it's just letting you view their filesystem in your web browser. It's just a web page, nothing more.

Personally I'd not give these guys my email credentials, and if I had I'd delete them then remove the add-on. But that's not because I think they are malicious but because I see no reason to give a middleman my email credentials, and because your screenshot makes me doubt their competence.

 

[kellysemail1128]

So it's a browser-based interface to a third-party service that will show you your email in the browser. It isn't from Mozilla and it isn't Thunderbird. Maybe they are using Thunderbird and echoing it to your browser, or maybe they are just using the name.
Anyway you've not been hacked. For whatever reason this sloppy piece of code is letting you see files on the server they use to present people's mail to them. Doesn't fill me with confidence about that company's security. But the key thing here is that you are looking at a web page: none of this stuff is on your tablet, it's just letting you view their filesystem in your web browser. It's just a web page, nothing more.
Personally I'd not give these guys my email credentials, and if I had I'd delete them then remove the add-on. But that's not because I think they are malicious but because I see no reason to give a middleman my email credentials, and because your screenshot makes me doubt their competence.

Wow thats so crazy! Thank you so much for clearing this up for me. I was very confused. Im definitely deleting it now.

 

[kellysemail1128]

This was also one of the files on there. Its just so weird