Wing Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Have the administrators figured out whats up with the leak yet. I received another apparently identical "Newtown, Connecticut is the second Dunblane Primary-School Massacre." email again today on my basschat specific email address. I'm guessing nobody will say anything even if the leak is eventually found and plugged. I've been warning other websites about leaks as I use unique email addresses for all my website registrations and only one of them came back and informed me that they found the leak. Others will straight up deny or keep quiet about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
giblett123 Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelago Posted January 4, 2013 Author Share Posted January 4, 2013 I (the OP) have also received the second email to my basschat-specific email address. Since then, I have just changed the email address I have registered with basschat to a new one - I'll see if that one gets spammed too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt P Posted January 4, 2013 Share Posted January 4, 2013 i've had that email twice too, it got bounced straight into the spam folder and then deleted. my e-mail provider is one of the more obscure ones so i don't get a lot of spam. Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WalMan Posted January 14, 2013 Share Posted January 14, 2013 Just had a gun nutter / conspiracy theory email to my BC only email Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wing Posted March 23, 2013 Share Posted March 23, 2013 Administrator finally come clean on the issue. I received the Diana spam on my BC only email recently. http://basschat.co.uk/topic/202782-basschat-is-not-sending-me-spam/page__st__20__p__2016919#entry2016919 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pelago Posted March 25, 2013 Author Share Posted March 25, 2013 Glad to finally hear some kind of confirmation of a compromse on that other (locked) thread. I think the reason that not many people have reported spam as a result of that attack is because most people don't use site-specific email addresses, and the spam being sent is conspiracy gun-nut stuff, not about basses, so if they received the spam most people wouldn't know that it was anything to do with basschat. Also, it's quite possible that they only took some of the database, and that some people's ISPs are better at filtering spam than others. But the fact that more than one person with a site-specific email address for basschat reported the spam means that it's most likely it came from a basschat-compromised database, even if others didn't get it. For interest, I changed the email address registered on the basschat site on 2 Jan, and that new email address hasn't received spam yet. The old email address has still received some, e.g. the Diana one the other day. The fact that the new address hasn't received spam is a good sign, as it probably means that the database hasn't been compromised since 2 Jan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamster Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 It's not so much a matter as 'coming clean' - it's a matter of finding any evidence of a data compromise. The fact that the site got hacked was publicised a couple of months ago. There did not appear to be any compromise of data. We still can't find any evidence that data was taken from here, but it seems inevitable that some data was taken - through no fault of our own. I haven't had any spam of the kind mentioned here, but my work e-mail address (which I only use internally) has been spammed with those mails, and that's on a .gsi network. On the other thread there was a suggestion that Basschat was sending out spam emails - that's utter nonsense and the reason it was locked. There are just some very clever and malicious people out there that can hack into the FBI, the CIA and other very very secure Government websites. Basschat, and any other forum is no different. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 I'm shocked to hear that BC is not as secure as the CIA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364344371' post='2025328'] I'm shocked to hear that BC is not as secure as the CIA. [/quote] Actually, we got hacked once last year. The CIA were hacked on three reported occasions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 [quote name='icastle' timestamp='1364345709' post='2025339'] Actually, we got hacked once last year. The CIA were hacked on three reported occasions. [/quote] CIA needs to get the BC admins on board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icastle Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 [quote name='EssentialTension' timestamp='1364345989' post='2025344'] CIA needs to get the BC admins on board. [/quote] Blimey The CIA must have really p*ss*d you off... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EssentialTension Posted March 27, 2013 Share Posted March 27, 2013 [quote name='icastle' timestamp='1364346911' post='2025352'] Blimey The CIA must have really p*ss*d you off... [/quote] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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