My user ID picture randomly changed. Could someone have hacked into my computer?

When I went to log into my computer in the middle of the evening, my user ID picture had changed.
I had not made any updates to my computer that night, but I had put Verizon Support on my new iPhone 5S. Verizon states nothing would have caused a changed in my computer.
Is there a way I can see if my computer was hacked?

This is what I did, as the other posts did not help me.
ds store At the center of the Dark Zone
Re: when logging in my picture changed. What happened? 
Oct 24, 2012 7:38 AM (in response to Align Ministries)
You mean it reverts to set one when you changed it to another or does it change to different ones each time?
There is the Apple Menu > System Preferences > Desktop and ScreenSaver > Desktop
which you can set it to a folder of images and it goes through them either sequentially or randomly.
If you set a particular one desktop picture and it changes when you log out/in or reboot, then that's a corrupt System Preference.plist file
Deleting the System Preference or other .plist file

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