Mumsnet Data Breach - FAQs

They'll undoubtedly still be going out in batches. I got mine late this afternoon. It said what was said at the top of this thread. The people whose accounts were affected have been notified and it's been reported to the ICO.
Why is it necessary to keep posting about the generic emails not having arrived yet? If you know what happened and you're posting here why are the generic emails important?

I'm fed up of saying the same thing and being ignored

They haven't gone out though, its a huge balls up. They don't take that long, they go overnight, there's other stuff going on that broke!

And to add insult to injury, error 2: it's changed the emotions from angry to gin between the iPad app and the Android one.

I can't log on at all on iPad but can on mobile. But mobile is my old account I set up and forgot about. The account I actually use I can't log in at all

MrsSchadenfreude same here! I'm actually logged in on the app, I hate the bloody app , there's no way I'll keep using it long term.

Any update as to how long it'll take to fix the chrome login?

Can you explain why you ever thought sending one million emails would happen simultaneously?

I have to say I was surprised when Justine was insistent that all (generic) emails had gone out, as I distinctly remember when a previous breach (2014/2015?) happened MNHQ had to explain (over and over again, like on here...) that the emails had to go out in batches due the the numbers involved.

I’m new to all this. How can I start a chat about something? Thanks

I've managed to log back in via Safari, but can't do so using Google Chrome.

I can't see how changing one's password is going to help anything when the password is the one thing that it's been made very clear anyone who was given brief access to someone's account would not be able to see or change?

I mean, changing your password at intervals is good, like using a different password for each place one goes to, but why do it now?

I was logged out the other day, along with many other users, & reset my password. However, I just tried to change something on my account & it wouldn't accept the new password, only the old one. It's not a typo, they are completely different sets of characters.

Thanks TakeTwo!

@YetAnotherBeckyMumsnet

Is anyone checking thread reports today?

Thanks becky

@HaventGotAllDay I can see your post right now you just made in here

Can anyone on this thread see my posts from yesterday and today?

Because HQ keep answering other people's and not mine and I'm wondering if I'm invisible.

Hey ho.

my mumsnet was hacked - just changed my password

I've not had any emails but my account keeps logging me out and then I have to wait ages before it will let me log back in?

This has never happened before now- I'm always signed in on the app.

Does anyone know if I delete my account and then re-reg with same email will that mean my previous nicknames etc will no longer be accessible/visible. I’m concerned if this happens again someone could look at all my prev posts and I’d be vulnerable to doxxing. I sometimes name change due to concerns relating to my work etc.
Maybe I’ll need to create a stand alone email address just for mumsnet to prevent this happening

I too have tried to change my password a couple of times since the breach, but can only log in with my old password.

I haven't seen any of the 46 posters who are directly involved being rude or sarcastic

Have their identities been shared?

I received an email. Very generic and not clear

Generic? Well, something being sent to close to a million people is hardly going to to be personalised, is it? They wanted us to get it within the next ten years or so...

Not clear? I had no difficulty working out what was being said: "we had a breach, we are trying to find out exactly what happened, when we know any more we will tell you" and an address to contact if you have specific worries.

They have now done the last bit, telling us when they know any more, in the post three up the page.

It's also clear that the people who were actually affected by this , all forty-six of them, have been notified individually as soon as they were identified. The rest of us, quite genuinely, did not and do not have anything to worry about on this occasion.

Except of course that using the internet at all puts everyone at risk of having their details observed by an unauthorised third party -- as does using a mobile phone or satnav, having an Alexa or equivalent, or watching some televisions, or having a GP, bank account, electricity account, vote.... And walking down the street in town gives your image to anyone who has a CCTV trained on that street, so that if they choose to they can broadcast it on the internet for all to see as you fall over on a banana skin, such larks eh.