Hackergate thread 6 - PLEASE READ

I've just found out that the janitor for the business I rent a room from for my work is called Jeff.

Should I be suspicious? Isn't it often the janitor? Also - just as I type this he has walked past me. Letting me know that he knows what I'm up to, perhaps?

Ha ha! Finally back in! Anyone else had trouble changing passwords even when using the specific criteria stipulated in MNHQ e-mails.

The last one said that it had failed (received an 'Oops Message' but all seems well.

to MNHQ (until we get a emoji

Is there a problem with the Android app? When I try to load it I get this error message.

Damn

It should be https then : then // then the www etc

Simurgh thankyou. I didn't have any info on my profile page, so nothing could be gained from that. I use completely different usernames/passwords for everything, but have changed all of those now too.

https.www.mumsnet dot com

If that's what you typed, I'm not surprised.
Try www.mumsnet.com

What page?

unlucky83 do you use any apps that have access to your address book?

Eg whatapp.

Gymbunny, https is only on the login page.

I expect it's been noted but the latest on twitter on his feed has a screenshot of someone's page. Not sure what it's getting at. Hope person is aware and taking precautions.

Wondering why I'm bothering to post as never had a single response re the hacking but anyway

Just typed in https.www.mumsnet dot com and got not recognised

I've had a couple of bookmark fails, but assumed it was the same issue that was giving me blank pages sometimes.

I only have http in the address bar, rather than https

Only the login page is https

Cockwomb police do get defrienfed and further referals to counselling if needed.

I would just assume that any information you had is potentially out there, StEdmundsPippins, and make the appropriate changes to a range of accounts. I also was on the list but I would be doing that even if I hadn't been.

Morning all and a great big thankyou to the Mumsnet team for all their hard work.

Can I just say that like Millliii I only have http in the address bar, rather than https.

I was one of the ones on 'the list' of names who had been hacked - albeit under a different name and password, does that make any difference?

I think that bookmarking is a little flakey at the moment but then it's had such moments in the past. It's difficult right now, as an ordinary user, to distinguish between everyday system frailties and the after-effects of Jeffrey's machinations.

just a couple of times now i know i've bookmarked a thread then when i come back to it it just takes me to the first page. only recently. could be me.

just marking place sorry - bookmarking doesn't seem to work for me

Morning all.

I do hope the site stays online today. The weather around here is RUBBISH and I need something to stave off the misery of 12 hours of CBeebies after a teething 11-month old kept me awake half the night.

I think this has been an education...
I think we are being encouraged to link too many accounts/too much info about ourselves...
I have passwords of different security strengths for different sites (and different email accounts that forward on) - this has made me realise that I had a couple of shopping sites where I've paid by paypal etc - no card details held - so I have used the same simple (for me!) password - because what harm can it do? But it does have my full address linked to my email address...Some I haven't used for years - I decided to beef things up and found the only way I could change the password was by saying I had forgotten it and there seems to be no option to delete the account...
Also thinking about Google - it frightens me how much info they have and how it is all linked - even things like your contacts now have phone numbers/email addresses all together with any other info about someone, and the whole youtube thing...and Google Play ...the whole Google+ thing...
Outlook/hotmail used to let you link email accounts ...but instead they introduced alias's - took me a while to realise (there is a thread on their help thing about it -people getting heated - rightly in my opinion) that if you send an email from an alias they stick your user name (which at one point was my real name) on it ...and apparently you can't leave the user name blank and it is the same for every alias...
FB always pisses me off too - if tick keep me logged in and then you do a web search that turns up a facebook page and you click on it it logs you in...
Finally the one thing I am a bit about at the moment - has happened to me twice recently and I know other people it is happening to - one a lot. And reading around the web it has happened to others too and I can't find a satisfactory answer - even MS/Hotmail told someone their account was secure - not to worry- but can't explain....
It is receiving 'spoofed' emails from someone on your contact list (so it has their user name but not the right email address). They haven't been hacked - just spoofed. I just feel it is a bit of a coincidence that out of the millions of spoofs that must exist I get maybe a hundred a year and 2% of those are from someone in my contacts...no way do I have 2% of the total spoofs as contacts...
What has really freaked me out is the ones I got are from people with distinctive names. They ended up in spam. They are people who had been on my contact list for a while but are no way linked to each other in any other way. Those contacts were set up in one email address, then four or five years ago I transferred them to another account (different provider) and deleted them in original account (thoroughly - so even from restore etc as were all emails etc) ...These emails have been forwarded from that original account - so the 'name' shouldn't have been recognised as one I maybe should be associated with ...so not not pre-filtered put in spam as a 'maybe not' ... freaky. I wonder if 'someone' somewhere is up to something really dodgy....(dons tin hat and removes all trace of self from internet....)

Thanks NobleGiraffe had a nosey through Simon's twitter and barack obama follows him. Obviously he hacked the account of someone important. When I think of Simon, I think of Simon's cat. I have no idea how to do clicky links but search for Simon's cat on youtube.

i locked my twitter account down even though i don't use it much and mostly just ramble on when i'm hungry