Site being highjacked?

[DXBMermaid]

Has my Mumsnet been hacked??

Am on my ipad and Mumsnet Talk keeps being redirected to some website selling s€x toys. Seriously annoying! What do I do?

Testing a name change

Still happening and whilst I was entering text to make this post: it just randomly sent me: no links no clicking etc

It's not happening from other websites - please sort it out MN

Oh yes I now have aliexpress as an ad on the right of my screen.

But I'm sure the site is opening without me going near it.

I'm trying to have my breakfast and am being confronted with firm cock vibrators and glow in the dark anal beads

It's a little bit early

I'm getting a Mercedes-Benz ad

Happened to be too. And also cuts out of mumsnet and goes to home screen too. Not happening when on other sites. New ipad

Happening here! On iPhone in Australia.

Happening LOTS.

Just got up as I'm feeling rubbish witha cold. Any solutions yet?

Hoping someone will come tell us how to get rid of it!

Marking place to see if anyone has a solution...

Happening LOADS

I'm not very techy so not sure what rpitchfo meant by it probably being our devices rather than MN? I thought iPhones/iPads couldn't get viruses?

Have my pop off blocker ON if that makes a difference?

The thing is, if it were a problem with my iPhone, surely it would happen when I visit other websites? Is only happening with mumsnet.

I think it'll be the ad server and I think the OpenDNS service I use is blocking it, which is why I'm not affected.

Usually hijacked ads only do the dodgy redirect on mobile devices as it makes the site administrators less likely to see the problem as they use desktops.

I think turning javascript off might stop the redirects on the ipads but it won't fix the underlying problem. I can't prove it though as I can't reproduce the problem so could be talking rubbish.

I've reported the thread to Mumsnet and I went into settings, into Safari and turned on private browsing. No idea what it means, but so far so good. Hopefully this will soon be sorted.

Private browsing does not help... Just got redirected again.

I reported thread last night and had a response to which I replied further on here.

I've only seen the issue when on MN but daren't let the kids use my iPad now

Happening to me all the time since yesterday,only on mumsnet,Dh happened to look over my shoulder when it came up last night and just gave me a 'look'..

OK folks - sorry about this, no idea what's going on but we'll see if our ad team can find out.

Thank you MNHQ

Hope it's easily fixed!

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Sorry, just did a . to get into threads I'm on...

Checked this on my tablet (Samsung Galaxy) and it isn't happening on either firefox, or the (android) app.

? Issue with apple app?

In Australia, btw

Not on dh's iphone either.

Aliexpress "Online Shopping for Cheap Automotive, Phones Accessories, Computers Electronics, Fashion, Beauty Health, Home Garden, Toys Sports, Weddings Events" From google

Hi everyone,

Sorry to hear you're being pestered with these ads. Is it fair to say that it's people on iPads outside of the UK that are being targeted?

We've blocked ads coming through from 'Ali Express', this should take effect within the next hour or so, would you be kind enough to let us know if this solves the problem?

With these kind of ads, it's really helpful if you can let us know the name of the site/company that you get redirected to. A screengrab is even better but we appreciate you might not want screengrabs of sex toy websites on your iPad , although you can delete them straight after, of course.

Thanks for your patience

ColetteTech

My iPad is in the USA, not using MN app, but has only happened once. Will try and grab a screengrab if it happens again. Thank you!