Hehe….life would be so boring without coincidences!
But I definitely panicked too and still a worried if I carried something over to my home network.
I’m a developer and at least superficially aware of the issues. Can’t imagine what non techies go through when faced with such situations!!
I started panicking, going over to people around me asking if they've ever experienced such a thing. All I got was a bunch of "huh? no never"s.
I found out a couple hours later that by pure coincidence my friend pranked me right then by signing my email address up for all the spam newsletters etc. he could find....