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Check your email address(s) and passwords for cyber security breaches

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Halcyon:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 12, 2023, 11:23:58 pm ---Not all of us are as savvy as you and a few others are about such spoofs.  Nor do I intend to become that savvy.  If the site you presented as safe is not safe, then that assertion needs to be corrected.  Fact is, I have rarely gotten such clearly dangerous emails.  The temporal relation to "checking" as you suggest cannot be ignored.  Whether that is important to Dave is his choice.  My decision has already been made.  The link you provided has been deleted and my trust in you has been affected.  Not that that any of that matters to a site this size.

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Savvy or not, even careful individuals will probably have personal information leaked at some point.

It's a shame you didn't find the resource I presented as useful to you, but that's OK, it's completely your decision whether to use a particular service or not.

At the end of the day, I took steps to investigate and ensure that the breach didn't occur on EEVblog's end and I presented what I know to everyone, so that individuals can make an informed decision about whether or not to change passwords, implement MFA etc... I don't believe in closing my eyes and blocking my ears, and pretending everything is normal. I can almost guarantee that if the forum was breached or subject to a data breach, and we did nothing about it or inform the users, a lot of people would be quite upset.

jpanhalt:
You are missing my real concern.  It is not whether I am foolish enough to enter my email address on such a site.  It is that YOU, unknown to us, did that with some of our email addresses.  Who gave you permission to do that?

james_s:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 12, 2023, 11:33:26 pm ---You are missing my real concern.  It is not whether I am foolish enough to enter my email address on such a site.  It is that YOU, unknown to us, did that with some of our email addresses.  Who gave you permission to do that?

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What are you talking about? It's a reputable site, it doesn't do anything with your email address and if he tried it with your email address it means that your address was already compromised. He doesn't need permission to do that, you voluntarily gave your email address to this site when you signed up.

Halcyon:

--- Quote from: jpanhalt on January 12, 2023, 11:33:26 pm ---You are missing my real concern.  It is not whether I am foolish enough to enter my email address on such a site.  It is that YOU, unknown to us, did that with some of our email addresses.  Who gave you permission to do that?

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No one gave me "permission", but to be quite blunt, no one's information was used in an irresponsible or unsafe manner, nor shared or stored anywhere else beyond this forum.
When you sign up or use any service, be it on the internet or otherwise, you're entrusting that it's being owned and operated by sensible and knowledgeable people. EEVblog is no different. Dave knows me personally, knows my background and qualifications and has entrusted a small handful of us with the administration and moderation of this forum. That includes access to the information you voluntarily provide upon sign-up. You're also trusting that the service itself (in this case SMF 2.0.18) does the job and fulfills your needs and expectations.

You might disagree with my methods, and that's OK, you weren't involved nor impacted. You seem to be making an issue out of a non-issue.

My final word on this matter is, it's impossible to keep everyone happy. Someone will always complain about an action or inaction, or the way something was said. I'm not here to preserve your feelings and emotions, I'm here to do the best job I know how as a moderator, and contribute positively to this forum and to Dave's operations. I believe in sharing knowledge and wisdom gained over many years of experience and education, that will not change as long as I'm alive. I refuse to hide behind anything, all of this is out in the open for all to see and comment on, including Dave. If he wants to give me a smack, I'll accept that.

jpanhalt:
Maybe nothing was compromised, but maybe you can fill us in on how you did it?

--- Quote from: Halcyon ---I checked the registered email addresses of all these users (just a small handful at this stage) and all but 1 have been compromised in a known data breach involving one or more third-parties.
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Was that done by you with a printout of such sites, or did you enter the email addresses into some service?  Was that service safe or was it the one you linked to?

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