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Site being highjacked?

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DXBMermaid · 30/12/2013 19:26

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?

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JulieJingleBellsMumsnet · 30/12/2013 19:53

Oh dear! Shock

Is it happening when you're scrolling over an ad or clicking something, or is it just random?

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JulieJingleBellsMumsnet · 30/12/2013 20:06

A game ap at all? The more info we have the easier it will be to find the culprit.

It may be a good idea to do a malware/virus search on your devices, just to make sure they are OK.

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RowanMumsnet · 31/12/2013 12:01

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

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ColetteTech · 31/12/2013 15:43

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 Xmas Grin, although you can delete them straight after, of course.

Thanks for your patience

ColetteTech

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ColetteTech · 31/12/2013 18:38

I'll be keeping an eye on this thread, if you've got any screengrabs then please send them to the usual [email protected] address and someone will forward them on to me, ta!

Happy New Year!

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CatherineMumsnet · 04/01/2014 10:17

Hi all, sorry to hear some of you are still having problems with this. The screen grabs are really useful so do keep sending them to Colette at the email address above. We'll flag it to tech again.

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ColetteTech · 06/01/2014 17:00

Damnit, AliExpress! Can you let me know if this is still happening? We've put in a fix and I'm hoping this has done the trick. Hmm

Colette

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