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.

Tomato, ta.

I got quite scared there when I had to log in

HoneyDragon we are obviously Holmes and Watson. obvs I'm Sherlock

Right, Maybe a good idea for us all to change our passwords in view of the Heartbleed Vulnerabiity?

As we should with all our online accounts in due course. Especially Amazon.

Hmmmm - cookies.

Amazon. Thank you Quint. I knew there was one I had forgotten.

fwik Amazon wasn't vulnerable to heartbleed. One of the few.
facebook was and still is.
I'm working :-) , but will come back with a link later.

I heard amazon was, but to be honest that was not something I read somewhere, but heard in passing, so could be wrong.

We are tremendously sorry about all this upset on A FRIDAY NIGHT, just to be super duper clear.

Still happening! Very annoying!!!

Oh, we are being told to remind everyone to hit 'keep me logged in' on all your various devices, fingers crossed that was it.

Gosh, I guess we are all worried that we will be taken over by poo trolls and Friday Night Sumbexers hacking us all, turning this into a golden shower opportunity.

Thanks :) Glad it was mildly amusing/naughty rather than just vile (could have been a LOT worse).

These are Very Reasonable Concerns, Quint, of course. But Tech is making reassuring and calm noises, honest. We will inform you immediately in the event that he becomes high-pitched.

Hey I am on my 3rd glass of house white
I am not going to remember my password for much longer

I'm relieved others have been logged out too. I thought I was being expelled for suggesting Justine had gone rogue and would have to be taken down with a tranquilliser dart Sorry Justine! I'll just go and drink my gin quietly now.

I have ticked keep me logged in and it has made sod all difference!

Yep, it keeps booting me regardless of ticking the box.

Has Justine left someone housesitting

Okay, noted. I am passing this on. Apologies again, everyone, there is Much Scuttling behind the scenes and your feedback is utterly invaluable, many thanks.

Just checked the GitHub list and it has facebook listed as being not vulnerable.

Have they tried switching it off and back on again?

If that does not work, you need to go to the server center, take out one server at the time, and rinse in disinfectant. Spray quite liberally. It should work,

We regularly dip our hardware in the pond, when we are concerned with privacy issues.