Ahmed El Gamil

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EDIT: Added the solution at the end of the post

So i have been navigating through my home directory and i found a hidden directory (which starts with a dot .) and i found a directory called .purple..Hmm, i don’t remember installing an application called purple..

So after some searching i found that the .purple directory contains some files related to pidgin The universal Instant messaging client..okay this sounds reasonable now..the pidgin color is purple

okay..before you read any further in this topic please open a terminal in your Linux distro and execute the following command:

cat ~/.purple/acc* | grep “ord>”

YES, the output you have seen from this command is REAL !! ..It is your IM passwords Read more…