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Girlwithaspergers
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24 Jun 2015, 4:32 pm

I have a Macbook Pro and today I tried logging in and it didn't have the bar to type my password so I rebooted and then it had a thing that came up and made me reset my password to "unlock my hard drive" and then I had to give my old password for the keychain to work. Hmm?


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01 Jul 2015, 10:16 am

Girlwithaspergers wrote:
I have a Macbook Pro and today I tried logging in and it didn't have the bar to type my password so I rebooted and then it had a thing that came up and made me reset my password to "unlock my hard drive" and then I had to give my old password for the keychain to work. Hmm?


How would your computer get hacked? "unlock my hard drive" sounds like your computer has a full-disk encryption set-up. If problems persists and you are continuously denied access then contact an expert.

Or use a public computer and burn a Linux ISO file to a CD and boot your computer in Linux.


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02 Jul 2015, 8:46 am

FYP, Bold Italics are mine

Rudin wrote:
Girlwithaspergers wrote:
I have a Macbook Pro and today I tried logging in and it didn't have the bar to type my password so I rebooted and then it had a thing that came up and made me reset my password to "unlock my hard drive" and then I had to give my old password for the keychain to work. Hmm?


How would your computer get hacked? "unlock my hard drive" sounds like your computer has a full-disk encryption set-up. If problems persists and you are continuously denied access then contact an expert.

Or use a public computer and burn a Linux ISO file to a CD and boot your computer in Linux, where you can salvage your /home directory by copying it to a backup drive and reinstall OSX if you have further suspicions that your system has been hacked.


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02 Jul 2015, 9:26 am

Girlwithaspergers wrote:
I have a Macbook Pro and today I tried logging in and it didn't have the bar to type my password so I rebooted and then it had a thing that came up and made me reset my password to "unlock my hard drive" and then I had to give my old password for the keychain to work. Hmm?


It's not clear from your description why the initial password reset was needed, but you always have to reset your keychain password after a password change. That is not an indication that you have been hacked:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201609