Hackergate part five - PLEASE READ

[RebeccaMumsnet]

Hi all,

A further continuation of this thread and the original thread here

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Please do keep an eye, ask us any questions and we will post updates as we get them.

Morning all. Think I'm going to swot attack my eldest today with some dreaded 11+ practice.

I wasn't going to share this yesterday as I don't know for definite that it is linked and I don't want to cause a panic. I was on the list and was contacted yesterday by my bank to say there had been numerous attempts at fraudulent transactions (all blocked thankfully). I know MN do not store any card info but I did use my MN password for some retail sites who had my card deets. If your situation was similar and you haven't checked your bank it might be worth a look.
I have advised MNHQ.

Sorry to hear that Shopafrolic. x

Is the latest post by Jeffrey true? I would hate to think he had published my full address and family details?

what post and where?

Plenty of fish recently had a dodgy advert that downloaded a virus onto your computer and key logged any financial transactions, which could be why people are getting warnings on banking websites.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3205637/Thousands-British-users-dating-website-Plenty-Fish-warned-bank-accounts-risk-hacked-website-targeted-criminals.html

Just a heads up - got a very obvious phishing attempt allegedly from PayPal. The English was awful. Be aware people.

Yeah, what post and where?

This is worth reading
lifehacker.com/5505400/how-id-hack-your-weak-passwords

pay pal phishing emails are very very common

They are indeed.

KitKat
At least I'll be the proud owner of some shiny new cards :)

The thing is it's not just Jeremy who's a risk now. Publishing our login details were a gift from Jeremy to hackers the world over, from bored 14 year olds to serious professional criminals. They'll all be ttying to crack our accounts now.

That's why it's essential to change your passwords on other sites, if they're anyway similar to your mumsnet one.

And if your email log in is in anyway similar to your mumsnet one, you need to change that and ALL sites which you use that email to log in with (even if the password is totally different), as if hackers can access your email they can get potentially get access to all your linked accounts.

loki and shop

oh shop that's what you were trying to sort then. poor you.

Loki
well done for persevering especially when you didn't feel very strong to deal with it all. can't let the bastards bring you down.
glad you managed it.
big hugs to you

I think there will come a point, sleepyelectricsheep, if we're not already at it, where the presence of data on the web will matter very little to people trying to hack it. (Because they'll assume that it's already been tried or the data owner has changed things.) Having it around is a PITA right enough but my instinct tells me that if MN users have and keep up improved security standards they will be no worse off - and possibly a lot better off - than the many other net users who are being hacked, phished or otherwise defrauded every day.

It will be becoming boring for the small fry - and too much effort to justify any decent reward for the big guys.

That's my hope, anyway. Along with a quick one for MN users taking more security measures permanently than some appear to have done to date.

loki and shop

I'm not wanting to turn us all against each other but is there a chance that some post on here could be being made by less than honest people trying to scare us?

Loki I sympathise. I struggle similarly so the past few days have been tricky - particularly yesterday with the bank. But I figure my online security is infinitely improved as a result of this - it was probably time for a wake up call.
for you

I should have added something to that. If any of you are really famous or really rich then it might be worth your while taking even more precautions because it probably would be worth people's efforts to mount an attack on you.

(Alternatively, get the butler to open all your accounts on their computer. )

Pipbin if you're referring to my bank stuff I am a longtime user of MN - have never NC'd - not even since being on the list. Not trying to scare anyone.
Just felt it right to mention. Might not even be connected as MN have no access to bank deets.

Of course there could, Pipbin. But then 'twas ever thus.

Not you at all Shop - just a general comment.

Simurgh I think you underestimate the patience and obsessional nature of some hackers.

The mumsmet partners data was hacked using old data from the heartbleed attack for example and how long ago was that?