Issues Loggin in To This Site
- Thread starter JCB1
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Dear ComputerForums Member,
As you may or may not be aware, we were hacked over the weekend of 11/25/2011. As far as we can ascertain there was not a breach of personal information but we have reset all passwords to randomly generated passwords as a precaution. We would like to keep you as a member here so we have streamlined the reseting of your password. Please follow this link to obtain your new password > http://www.computerforums.org/login.php?do=lostpw If you change your password once you return, please make it strong.
We value your membership and hope you will continue to be a part of our community.
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
The ComputerForums.org Admin and Staff
Maybe send out something like that in a bulk emailing. Besides getting everyone back you get a chance to see who has a valid email address.
As you may or may not be aware, we were hacked over the weekend of 11/25/2011. As far as we can ascertain there was not a breach of personal information but we have reset all passwords to randomly generated passwords as a precaution. We would like to keep you as a member here so we have streamlined the reseting of your password. Please follow this link to obtain your new password > http://www.computerforums.org/login.php?do=lostpw If you change your password once you return, please make it strong.
We value your membership and hope you will continue to be a part of our community.
Looking forward to seeing you soon,
The ComputerForums.org Admin and Staff
Maybe send out something like that in a bulk emailing. Besides getting everyone back you get a chance to see who has a valid email address.
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JCB1
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Hi, to answer your questions
-They had access to the passwords, The passwords are encrypted and I believe they can be broken, The hackers also had access to reset passwords. I am unsure which one the hackers did
-Thanks for the advise setishock, I want to make sure everything is working as it should on the site before we send out a message
-InventD45 - Thanks for the new logo, I like it, will be in touch soon
-They had access to the passwords, The passwords are encrypted and I believe they can be broken, The hackers also had access to reset passwords. I am unsure which one the hackers did
-Thanks for the advise setishock, I want to make sure everything is working as it should on the site before we send out a message
-InventD45 - Thanks for the new logo, I like it, will be in touch soon
@JCB
InventD45 is over at my place saying he can't log in. He asked me to let you know.
http://animeappeal.com/showthread.php?4293-Computer-forums
InventD45 is over at my place saying he can't log in. He asked me to let you know.
http://animeappeal.com/showthread.php?4293-Computer-forums
lhamil64
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Sorry to post in a somewhat-oldish thread, but it's stickied so I'm assuming it's OK. I'm not sure if this is related or not, but yesterday my iTunes account was compromised, so I started thinking about how it could have happened. I'm suspecting it may have been due to the hack at this site (as I stupidly used almost the same password there, and it wouldn't have been hard to guess the change). It definitely could have been due to other causes, but I thought I might as well post my suspicion (in case it helps anyone).
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