Justine's account

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Well!

I am fresh out of the shower from a fabulous camping trip in sunny Wales to a call from one of our lovely staff to say that there was a thread started by "Justine" that was really rather vile.

Apologies all, it seems as though we have some nasties hanging around and have managed to hack Justine's account.

Tech are onto it now and we are looking at in what happened.

Justine is on hols atm. Please do report anything odd that you see.

Thanks all and apologies.

I'm finding it amusing that from the screenshot I could see, all the replies were YANBU.

I know if I was a technical genius style hacker, the first place I would go a hacking is a website for parents. It makes perfect sense

Unless it is an inside job, HoneyDragon is an obvious suspect, she has form for hostile takeovers...

Delightful! This thread has taken a turn for the whimsical.

I likes it. Cheers

cheers!

I do hope, Rebecca, that you have at least towelled off now that the drama appears to be subsiding...

does Justine hve teenagers? (thinking of a thread earlier this week)

how come op is namechanging but still showing as original poster??

Right something is going on, I have been involuntarily logged out twice now, beginning to upset me slightly, I have to resort to

That's twice I've had to login again, and I've not logged off.

"how come op is namechanging but still showing as original poster??"

It's all MNHQ blue for me (ordinary OP are quite a different colour).

And I just had to log in again too.

Tech: are you having a fiddle, or is something else wrong?

Just happened to me too

She/they are not showing as OP, but as MNHQ - who are the only ones who get the nice blue instead of all the sludgey colours the rest of us have to put up with...

Keep getting logged out. 5th try at posting. Fx...

Grrrrrr not happy about all the logging out.

Just had to log in again............WTF IS HAPPENING MNHQ???????

A-ha!

And as a PP said^^, is it a Heartbleed thing?

I had to log in, but I thought that was just because I've just changed my password.

(Yes, I know Tech said we didn't have to, but I'm currently changing them all - I've now got a system and folders in my password manager and everything...)

Me too , been logged out against my will 4x now

I had to log in as well, didnt have to change my password though.
Thank goodness mumsnets staying. Phew. As we were.

I don't like being logged out.

why am I not being logged out??? it wasn't me,honest!!! I'm feeling left out

Message from Tech...
"I've reset all the cookies so most likely every person on the site will be asked to login again shortly. Sorry, but it had to be done."

We are keeping him in touch with what's happening here, obvs, so will report to you all as soon as we hear from him.

In the meantime, we will hand out blankets and hot soup for those dispossessed by the logging out and in and out and in again. Many apologies. Tomato or chicken noodle?