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

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MathWizard:

--- Quote from: JohanH on January 12, 2023, 06:10:13 pm ---For the last time. NOBODY IS TELLING THEIR PASSWORD TO ANYONE!  :palm:  The phrase that you seem to be stuck on "check your email address(s) and passwords against known leaks" doesn't mean that you have to enter your password. It is badly phrased in the post, I admit that. But that's not how the site works. It means you can check the site to see _if_ your credentials have been leaked.  :palm:  I'm not going to waste time arguing and have to sadly admit that the site isn't perfect, due to people misunderstanding its purpose.

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I hope they don't want to check my password on that site, but I did check my email, and NexusModManger got hacked. But yeah I don't want to check my password, LOL

magic:
There seems to be another wave of those attacks, spam posts appeared in RF/ham subforum.


--- Quote from: Halcyon on January 11, 2023, 10:44:49 pm ---A few of you may have noticed some user accounts posting spam on the forum, where they previously seemed to make legitimate posts. These are different to the normal spammers who create new accounts, foolishly attempt to make them seem genuine but then end up posting spam.

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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Just one question: on the forum's side, were all of those users compromised by means of email password recovery?
Or are they getting pwned by good old password=username or perhaps brute force / dictionary attacks? How well is this forum protected from that?

pcprogrammer:
Yep, I reported two of them just now after checking the posts. Both are low post count posters but registered quite a while back. Also reported a couple a while back.

It's these pump up telegram crypto currency bullshit advertisements and I wonder if it is some bot doing the hacking and posting.

Bud:
Dave just couple days ago said he cleared non-active accounts. Not sure how those two came back if they were registered long time ago.

pcprogrammer:
I'm talking about one with 3 posts and another with 6 posts, and Dave only killed of 0 post members that have not been active in the last three months.

Check for yourself  >:D

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/profile/?u=649576
https://www.eevblog.com/forum/profile/?u=102542

Edit: Simon redacted and locked such a post a couple of days ago. Also concerned a member like above.

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