Why would AOL suspend all the accounts for 1 TOS violation?

Okay so letting little sibling play on my account without supervision probably wasn't a good idea. He was in one of those "Kids Only" chatrooms on America Online. I came to find that he got my "chat" suspended for 15 minutes for scrolling. I didn't make too big of a deal about it, because it was only a chat room and I don't go in those anyway. A few hours later, however, I come to find that I can't sign in at all due to a Terms of Service violation. I have two accounts on AOL, so I tried signing into the other one and I also could not sign in for the same reason. My mother could not log into hers either. Then my father, who has the Master Screename tried signing in, and was able to fix it but had to change his password. It turns out that all of us have to change our passwords... and I don't even remember what I put in for my security question. I'm not justifying the TOS violation, as it was partially my fault, however, I don't understand why AOL had to suspend every account?|||AOL sucks big time. I hated those jerks when I had AOL.


I went to comcast and have been happy ever since.|||I've had my account on AOl hacked numerous times. Not even known about it until I was locked out due to acount suspension from TOS.


Basically, people will use your account to send out emails to hundreds of people...and you're lucky if that's all they manage to get a hold of.


It is a pain having to reset/change passwords, but there's no way around it. Once you've been compromised, that's AOL's Standard Operating Procedure. I've had an accont with them for over ten years, so I've been through this a few times.


I suggest you make your password more than one word, use the space bar and use some numbers in place of letters. I haven't had my account hacked in about two years, so...it must be working.


Then again, this was on account of your sibling, so...lol, that seems like an easy enough fix.


Yeah, answer to your question, it's for security purposes. It's really creepy to find out someone's been in your account and sent out a hundred porn emails!|||Would you like to have your account stolen by someone rather than used by your sibling? Imagine the damage that could be done if someone had access to your account. They could email your friends with strange letters. They could visit sites best not visited. They could load viruses or key trackers and later know what you did. There are all sorts of bad things that can occur if someone gets access to your account (just look at the number of people wanting help on viruses and spyware on Yahoo!Answers to get an idea of how bad this is).





I would be a bit happy with AOL for being aggressive at protecting you and your account.|||AOL when you join their is one account only and that is the one it is billing. The screen names generated on this account are not separate AOL accounts at all just new screen names. These screen names are all linked to the billing screen name and when one screen name violates TOS AOL assumes it is the responsibility of the billing screen name to insure all the other S/N's on that account obey TOS. It is also a way AOL polices spammers that may use an AOL address but with multiple S/N and mailboxes. Hope this makes sense to you I went through this when a friend violated TOS while using one of my S/N's to access the web.|||If your father has the master account. Have him delete your account all together. and simply create a whole new one. Easiest way to go. Hope that helps.|||Considering all your accounts come from the same connection, this is not surprising.|||because they found that that screenname was linked with all of your other screen names and banned all of them and your ip to avoid the scrolling accident