After the recent hacks I'm deactivating my account.

[Kasterborous]

I appreciate it's not Mumsnets fault, but it's the second time it's happened and I have too many other passwords to remember so I'm off.

Oh for god's sake.

Sign up with a new email address that doesn't include your name.

Think of any password eg abcd1234

Change your name on here and change your postcode and real name etc

Then you're sorted.

There's no reason to leave. Your financial details are not on here. You can't be traced. If anyone even got into that email address, what would they find? Nothing!

You are over-reacting.

Yes, this is what these arseholes wanted to happen. No way should we let them be successful, fuck that.

Yes change to a new email.

Didn't know there was a flouncers corner

How odd wow a hacker has access to my (anonymous) posts about kids, MILs, wedding lists, how many times a day we wash our towels. Who gives a shit.

Whatever. It's not hard to change your password and write it in your diary (etc.)

This is precisely what the hacker is trying to do. He cannot gain any personal details just a password and e-mail. Please don't let a wanking spotty geeky teenager win

I have to remember all my own passwords AND all of MILs. And go to work and raise kids and all that stuff. It is possible

I really don't get this
But hey, if you won't miss it then go for it. Personally I like mumsnet so I'm staying.

Omg.... Really??

So many posters behaving like this. As if they are someone important lol

You're leaving because you don't want to change your password?

Your choice but seems a bit bonkers to me.

Thinking of doing the same. But of course I won't

Just a bit pissed off that it has happened again, and all the arse licking sympathy for what a hard time the MNHQ team must be having its their job, they aren't running the site as volunteers are they? and just like any other job sometimes you are under pressure, sometimes its easier, thems the breaks. (Swat team stuff aside, of course, that's horrendous obviously)

Now this morning I still couldn't log in, and theres another forced password reset today by the looks of it? Great that's pretty annoying after I reset mine yesterday already.

Password reset is pretty minor in the scheme of things. Really it is

Do you not have a notebook? You could just write them down in there. But try not to log on to hackersnet and post a photo of it. Because that would be risky.

"Waaah! I have to remember a new password" is this the ULTIMATE first world problem? While at the same time being ironically the most backward thing ever posted?

I really can't get the angst when you have posted stuff online that's there for all to see.

I know Garmin that's why I haven't flounced its just a minor annoyance for us general users, and it will be forgotten about by the time kids go back to school...I've only popped in today to see what the current news on it is. I think I'll leave mine til the end of the week before resetting again and hopefully the storm will have passed. Does that count as a mini flounce?

And then the hackers will have won

So a man decides to interfere with a mainly female site and because of having to reset a password long term posters decide to let him win, by not using their favourite site anymore

Hopefully he'll have a police record/ prison sentence for wasting police time for the swatting incident alone, never mind the disruption to the website.

It's a bit deeper than some of you are making out to be fair.

Personally I use a totally separate email, username and password to any other site because MN's approach to security is fucking atrocious and I don't want anyone to be able to sniff out RL details from here.

99% of people (normal people) using the site will have used their normal email address - which is now compromised & linked to whatever they've posted - employment, relationships, legal queries etc as well as "mums" stuff so I totally understand where the OP is coming from...