Someone has tried to log into my account on another forum

Jeffrey is a bastard. My wine was gone too

I think we have stumbled upon his real aim in all this - distract us and keep us locked to our computers so he can sneak in and steal goodies from our fridge. That cad!!!!!

YY Last night I went to get me some that was in the fridge but the bottle was suspiciously empty.

I blame Jeffrey.

For example, I had food poisoning last night.

It did mean I was able to be vigilant for armed police, which was useful but it also meant I questioned whether it could somehow have been Jeffrey's fault.

I concluded that no, it could not

Quite - and so when a person of ill intent decides to claim responsibility for certain attacks, (though we know those were him as he did it in advance of the incidents) he will thence receive by default, credit for any other internet or email related iffyness that takes place around the same time.

Which I'm sure makes him feel even more important than he already does.

"A lot (all?) of the seemingly unconnected happenings will be actually unconnected. Everyone is hyper aware at the moment, and is attributing anything slightly out of the usual to Jeffrey."

I think that's very true. We have no idea about the typical number of weird incidents and attempted attacks on a population the size of MN that are going on all the time anyhow.

Yes, I think they probably are. Generally increased levels of awareness on internet security can only be a good thing for users though - it's just a shame that MN and its staff and users had to be the fall guys for it.

I look forward with interest to a future MN webchat on the topic.

That doesn't explain happenings to people not on the list though.

Also, peoples accounts are hacked all the time. People get dodgy pop ups all the time. A lot (all?) of the seemingly unconnected happenings will be actually unconnected. Everyone is hyper aware at the moment, and is attributing anything slightly out of the usual to Jeffrey.

That doesn't explain happenings to people not on the list though

There's no significance really about the list. He chose to publish it but there is no way of knowing he only had the passwords/e-mail addresses of people on it.

If anything that might be a bluff and he has no interest at all in users who logged in with name and password

I was on it. I log in using name not email. The email linked to it MN was an ancient account that attracts mainly spam these days and has nothing else of relevance. New one is for MN only.

I have 5 different email accounts from a mixture of providers all with different passwords and I use them randomly for Web-sites. . It's a pain remembering them all so I use an address book which has nothing but passwords in it.

Of course the address book itself has to be kept safely as it's got lots of useful information. If we're away from home for any more than a few days it gets locked in my office desk.

The thing is, jeff stole the details, but the details were then published on twitter....so fuck knows who got them and started poking around to see what they could do.

That doesn't explain happenings to people not on the list though.

I don't think it's his French lop he's stroking...

Ooh someone on another thread was saying their guinea pig forum account was attempted to be broken into recently as well. I wonder if it's the same forum, of Jeff has a love of small pets or something?

I don't think it's this sad hacking chap sitting there doing all this. If there are any follow on issues from the hack, it's probably because other organisations that misuse data in this way have got hold of the information, either by paying for it or by copying it off the internet when it was visible to all.

It isn't Jeff personally trying to get involved in your accounts. I hope that's correct.

I was on the list and I had an email from yahoo the next day saying someone had tried to access my account from Russia.

That account was also hacked when Monster job agency was done a few years ago so could have been that although they are welcome to it it only has shopping newsletters sent to it

yeah, I know ItsAllGoing, it's just a sort of instinct with me to not just obediently fill out forms as if the provider had any kind of right to the information.

Even your use of the phrase using gmail with false name/location/DOB suggests that I would be doing something fraudulent (I dont mean that you were accusing me of doing something fraudulent!)

maybe it's futile but I like to try and defy the 'nothing to hide nothing to fear', 'do as you're told we know best' diktats

Actually, I'm not sure that is right? Say you were using gmail with false name/location/DOB. They'd still be able to collect a vast amount of relevant data on you...

Fair enough :)

companies gather information and sell it on, I'm not going to give it away for free!

does anyone really give their real info when they open an e-mail account?

Depends how much you care if you lose access.... If the provider has some real info that both you and they know you are far.more likely to be able to get your account back if you are locked out/hacked etx

(Or at least keep track of the false info you signed.up with)

Why wouldn't you use your real info? What's the benefit?

with entirely fictitious name, gender, postcode and dob just for MN

does anyone really give their real info when they open an e-mail account?

I never have

The email from the other forum tells me the IP address of whoever tried to log in. Is this significant? (IT numpty).

I don't know but if you could email that information to [email protected] with URGENT TECH in the subject line they may have a use for it.

It's so easy to set up new email accounts. There's a lot to be said for having different addresses for different purposes and keeping different addresses for accounts which involve money and those which are purely social media.

I was using an ancient email address for MN which isn't used for anything I now care about.

I've now got a new email account (in the cat's name) with entirely fictitious name, gender, postcode and dob just for MN

I think that many people will have tightened up their net practice in response to this so that's one good thing to come out of it. I only hope it lasts for a while.

Yeh Simurgh didn't panic too much, but the war DVDs just looked funny alongside books on potty training and breast pads!

Was quite good in a way as it gave me a kick up the bum to improve my slovenly internet ways.