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Justine's account

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RebeccaMumsnet · 11/04/2014 18:26

Well!

I am fresh out of the shower from a fabulous camping trip in sunny Wales to a call from one of our lovely staff to say that there was a thread started by "Justine" that was really rather vile.

Apologies all, it seems as though we have some nasties hanging around and have managed to hack Justine's account.

Tech are onto it now and we are looking at in what happened.

Justine is on hols atm. Please do report anything odd that you see.

Thanks all and apologies.

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emsiewill · 17/04/2014 12:16

Just wanted to say I am real, I had no idea my account had been hacked until I saw a screenshot of the message above on MN Facebook page yesterday. I have been a member of the site since 2001...so any AS of my name would bring up many, many messages (as my children will testify - they love reading threads where I was moaning about them when they were little).

I changed my password as soon as I had the original email from Mumsnet on ?Saturday / Sunday? and have done a complete reassessment of my passwords across the net...

Am still a bit Shock about the whole thing, really.

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RebeccaMumsnet · 12/04/2014 17:34

New thread here

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LackaDAISYcal · 12/04/2014 17:32

Ooops MN. Not a happy weekend at MN towers then Sad

LoveBeingCantThinkOfAName · 12/04/2014 17:31

Has Justine taken her laptop with her, things always seem to happen when she's off.

AryaOfHouseSnark · 12/04/2014 17:29

Wine for Rebecca.

So will they have access to our registration details too ?

BecauseIsaidS0 · 12/04/2014 17:23

Bet this is how your poor IT guy wanted to spend his Saturday.

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 17:22

I'm a lot shitter with passwords than I realised.
If my iPad ever stops remembering them for me I'll be fucked!

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RebeccaMumsnet · 12/04/2014 17:18

@DrankSangriaInThePark

Thank you Grin

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Maryz · 12/04/2014 17:17

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RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 17:16

Blimey.

CharlieSierra · 12/04/2014 17:10

Nothing to do with MN but I'm definitely sitting up and taking notice of all this security stuff now- just had my bank on the phone because some tosser tried to spend £500 on shoes on my debit card online. Luckily it was deemed 'unusual' and blocked, but still stuck with no card now all weekend until they send me a new one.

DrankSangriaInThePark · 12/04/2014 17:09
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RebeccaMumsnet · 12/04/2014 17:06

Hi all,

It sadly does look as though Mumsnet has been compromised and some passwords accessed.

We are going to be doing a mass password reset later today and will be sticking a thread to explain more very soon.

Further details to follow, as and when we know more.

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InspirationFailed · 12/04/2014 16:22

I posted this on the other thread but when I try and change passwords I get the error message and just loads of typing when i try to read PMs

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topknob · 12/04/2014 16:02

Thanks garlic not too concerned atm as don't use it anywhere else, just don't want to change it until it is fixed.

sillymillyb · 12/04/2014 16:02

Cross posted again, sorry, garlic says it better than I have.

sillymillyb · 12/04/2014 16:01

I've changed all my passwords to something different (from each other and what was it was previously) when things have settled down I'm going to do it again. I wasn't sure what best course of action was so thought this covered all bases

GarlicAprilShowers · 12/04/2014 16:00

No, topknob, it's recommended to wait until they've updated their certificate. No harm in changing it, obv, but we'll need to change again when Mumsnet gets a new cert.

topknob · 12/04/2014 15:59

So going by what garlic has said we shouldn't yet be changing our MN password??? Hmm

sillymillyb · 12/04/2014 15:56

That's just common sense tweasels. Any app that doesn't understand that needs completely redesigning never mind hacking Smile

JustAnotherYellowBelly · 12/04/2014 15:53

We can't change it from the app can we? Confused

Tweasels · 12/04/2014 15:48

And understand that sometimes a bottle of wine can be classed as lunch, if it's an exceptionally fruity one.

GarlicAprilShowers · 12/04/2014 15:47

Maryz Grin

MNHQ - Your security certificate is still showing up as 5 months old. You need to install a new one.

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 15:46

And maybe replace the last 2 weeks of cheese, chips and wine with salad?
Thanks awfully.

Maryz · 12/04/2014 15:42

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