[MBAtarga]

Flatbutt1 - we had a hacker take over our home PC back around April of 2021. Wife walked in the room to check email and the mouse cursor was moving within the browser and she screamed bloody murder.
I disconnected the machine from our network. First thing I did was go to Fidelity and change both mine and the wife's 401k account passwords. I won't go into details - I could tell from browser history they weren't too sophisticated - but the hacker used my Chase credit card points to purchase 4 $200 HomeDepot gift cards. I got to my email first -and discovered them before they were able to access the email. Called and cancelled credit cards, bank accounts - you name it. We were up until 11:30PM Sunday night calling and cancelling everything.

Next day I ran all sorts of scans and nothing was found. I took it to a repair shop - and they also found nothing. I went and bought a new machine 24 hours later. I kept the "infected" machine off the network and transferred files by thumbdrive running scan tools each time. I was able to rebuild our computer from scratch. I destroyed the infected HD when I finished.