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Basically I wanted to open my MacBook Air and when I started writing in my password all letters were in all caps. Therefor, I plugged in my keyboard and it worked on the email Registration but not on my password. I am wondering if someone might have hacked my password and if so what I could technically do to stop him. This is a very urgent problem as I need this laptop for my school work, thank you for anyone answering.

2-3 hours before this happened a small ball fell onto my keyboard

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  • One more thing, 2-3 hours before this happened a small ball fell onto my keyboard.
    – TheKoljaN7
    Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 16:09
  • are emails case sensitive ? Your keyboard's caps lock key seems stuck. Try onscreen keyboard. Or an external one.
    – anki
    Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 16:12
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    I've added your comment to the question. From that it would seem far more likely you have physically broken something than been hacked. Test for whether you broke the Shift key or capslock - type something from the numbers row. If you get @£$%^ then the shift key is stuck. If you still see numbers, then the capslock is on.
    – Tetsujin
    Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 16:16
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    Thank you for letting me know, I tried and now I could log in to my mac, I think I physically broke it, anyway though it works now and I’m scanning for viruses. Thank you
    – TheKoljaN7
    Commented Mar 11, 2021 at 16:31

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What you have described are not the symptoms of a hack. It sounds like something is broken on your keyboard, and something was dropped something on it. You will need to get the keyboard physically repaired.

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I am wondering if someone might have hacked my password.

No.

'Strange behaviour' is not usually the symptom of hacking or malware. Such activity wants to go unnoticed. Malware wants to sit on your computer quietly, without attracting attention, harvesting your keystrokes or other data.

Hackers also are unlikely to change your password, but to keep using it quietly. (And likely we're talking about automated processes that are using stolen databases of passwords and usernames - no individual is singling you out, unless you're of interest to a nation state or commercial espionage.)

Given the fact that you mention damage to your keyboard, and then problems using it, then that's the much more likely cause.

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