I got this email this morning

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07 Feb 2007, 8:43 am

From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
To : Me
Subject: Wrong Planet: b*****s

From: CHU GOT HACKED BY ME!! !! G4ngsta.ryan

you got pwned b*****s By minny me
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA MOTHA FUCKA

Don't try to take it back either cause i got everything to tha site!!

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BrainShine
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07 Feb 2007, 8:47 am

I got this e-mail also. Anyone have any idea what it "really" means? Change your passwords!

thenightgem
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07 Feb 2007, 8:49 am

BrainShine wrote:

I got this e-mail also. Anyone have any idea what it "really" means? Change your passwords!

I got it as well. I changed my password. Do you think the site was really hacked?

itsangel
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Joined: 28 Jan 2007
Gender: Female
Posts: 27

07 Feb 2007, 8:55 am

i got that e mail as well i think this site must have been hacked to get all our email adresses
ive scanned my computer and nothing came up

alex
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07 Feb 2007, 8:58 am

what happened was the site control panel was comprimised. The hacker used the sitewide email function so he didn't need to get everyone's email addresses.

I'm currently securing the site right now.

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Prozium_Addict
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Joined: 4 Feb 2007
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07 Feb 2007, 9:43 am

alex wrote:

what happened was the site control panel was comprimised. The hacker used the sitewide email function so he didn't need to get everyone's email addresses.

I'm currently securing the site right now.

So I am assuming that based off of what you know, there is no immediate danger to the security to our account information?

SovietChess
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07 Feb 2007, 9:43 am

second time in about a month, month and a half..

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Raheelah
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07 Feb 2007, 10:03 am

yes i got the same e-mail as well, prob is i was half asleep and opened the messege so does that mean the hacker now has my e-mail address. i clicked on report and delete for all the good that will do. i thought @ first it was a personal attack on me cose it mentioned "minnie me" which is a degrotary remark for people like me who are dwarfs, i am 4ft 5in short. i am EXTREMELY sensitive regarding my height :cry: :cry: :cry:

Raheelah van den Berg.

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jonrkc
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07 Feb 2007, 10:20 am

I sincerely wish people who do things like this could be found, prosecuted, and locked away--at very least.

I changed my password and also my email address, substituting a "disposable" address for the usual main-account one I normally use.

A lot of email providers including Yahoo! provide a means of making disposable addresses for use in situations where you are not confident about communications, which for me now includes this site. Then if you start receiving noxious email at that address, you simply delete it at the email provider's control panel.

KurtmanJP
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07 Feb 2007, 10:22 am

I saw it. I checked it. I deleted it. I didn't bother to look at it. Opening it could've unleashed a virus on my computer.

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cags
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Joined: 23 Jan 2007
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07 Feb 2007, 10:24 am

I think we all got the same email. My boyfriend wanted to send a nasty reply, but I said no way!!

Pug
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07 Feb 2007, 10:52 am

cags wrote:

I think we all got the same email. My boyfriend wanted to send a nasty reply, but I said no way!!

A damnit, I did. I thought it was personal, and he already got my e-mail. DAMN

Litguy
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07 Feb 2007, 11:11 am

Pug wrote:

cags wrote:

I think we all got the same email. My boyfriend wanted to send a nasty reply, but I said no way!!

A damnit, I did. I thought it was personal, and he already got my e-mail. DAMN

Actually, others are saying that he blocked responses, so he probably didn't get yours.

I'm glad I use my work e-mail for the site.

Beenthere
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07 Feb 2007, 11:15 am

Nothing here.

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faithfilly
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07 Feb 2007, 11:39 am

I got that email too. Now in hindsight after reading this thread, I kind of appreciate what happened because it taught me a lesson I seem to forget. The reminder is, "misery loves company."

DrowningMedusa
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07 Feb 2007, 12:00 pm

I haven't posted in like a month, and I didn't get the silly spam... Correlation?
But I'm glad to know Alex is right on top of it!

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