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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.

OP posts:

sillymillyb · 12/04/2014 15:40

I used the same pw for here and pof. They are welcome to my share of tossers from on there

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 15:37

Wait, I use it for MyFitnessPal too.
Once they've filled up on stale crisps they can illegally diet!

WhisperingShadow · 12/04/2014 15:37

It looks patched for that specific vulnerability. You can check at Qualys.com.

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 15:28

Fair enough Rebecca. Will do.

BoreOfWhabylon · 12/04/2014 15:28

I also only use my password for here, although have changed now.
Rebecca, what about the info in our account details, though?

sillymillyb · 12/04/2014 15:28

Rebecca, is it ok to change passwords on here now or should we wait till tech says all secure? That link is terrifying - will you be able to notify those affected?

EdithWeston · 12/04/2014 15:27

Even if you decide to wait for confirmation of patch before changing password, you might want to look at the details stored on your account registration page and minimise/remove them for the duration.

If you use your MN password for anything else, then it's probably a good idea to change those immediately.

Tweasels · 12/04/2014 15:26

Mmmm, out of date dried foods you say? If I was a hacker that's the first place I'd go a hacking.

BoreOfWhabylon · 12/04/2014 15:24

MNHQ are all poo poo smelly bums.

And I am not the BoreOfWhabylon...

... or am I?

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 15:24

I was about to go on a password changing spree but then I realised that the only other place I use this password/email combo is ApprovedFood so unless a hacker wants to gorge himself on out of date dry goods I'm probably ok

MNHQ

RebeccaMumsnet · 12/04/2014 15:24

Hi all,

We are here and sounding the alarm.

My non-tech brain is playing catch-up but we have shouted loudly and tech are looking now.

We think it may be an idea to get rid of the link to the passwords now, thanks Tiger for the heads-up and we will contact that site and ask for them to remove it asap.

We will update this thread as soon as we know more.

Please do change your password if you haven't already.

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Tigerbomb · 12/04/2014 15:23

plus that was just one site I found - I am sure there are others

Tigerbomb · 12/04/2014 15:22

I recognise a few of those names.

I have reported it to Tech

WhisperingShadow · 12/04/2014 15:22

Wonder if tech use remote logons to administor the site and what authentication and security is in place.

DramaQueenofHighCs · 12/04/2014 15:21

Also why it's important to have *completely different' passwords for everything - it's a bugger to remember them all I know!

SnakeyMcBadass · 12/04/2014 15:21

Have reported Tigerbomb's post in the hope that MNHQ will let us know what is going on.

Tweasels · 12/04/2014 15:21

Might as well get some good out of this eh?

MarshaBrady · 12/04/2014 15:19

Crikey didn't think this would happen.

Maryz · 12/04/2014 15:18

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Message withdrawn at poster's request.

DramaQueenofHighCs · 12/04/2014 15:18

I was wondering if it was 'thanks' to the "heartbleed" bug that has been in the news. If that is the case then it's best to keep changing passwords every few days for a while and not just the once as people who have 'cracked' it will be on high alert for password changes and notice them.

SnakeyMcBadass · 12/04/2014 15:18

Shit. I recognise one of those names.

Tweasels · 12/04/2014 15:18

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 15:17

That was to TigerBomb btw.

RandallFloyd · 12/04/2014 15:15

Holy crap

GarlicAprilShowers · 12/04/2014 15:14

I'm sure tech already know this: Heartbleed Bug

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