Sciencemadness Discussion Board

Re: Possible Hacking Of Members' Accounts.

JohnWW - 10-4-2005 at 03:15

At 1.14 a.m. GMT today, 10th April, I received an unsolicited email, purporting to be from Sciencemadness Discussion Board at gfxlist@yahoo.com, saying "This is an automatic e-mail. Yourself, or someone has requested your password to be resent to you, your details are below.
JohnWW [password] "

However, the password given in this message was quite different from the one I chose when originally registering, and certainly not one that I would have chosen even if I wanted to change it. And I did NOT, the, request that my password be resent to me. In order to log on again today, my original password did not work, and I had to use the new password emailed to me.

It therefore appears that the board has been hacked. Has anyone else experienced something similar recently?

[Edited on 10-4-2005 by JohnWW]

The board hasn't been hacked...

Mephisto - 10-4-2005 at 03:45

The forgot-password feature can be abused to reset your password, if you have an email-adress, which is visible for all. Link: Polverone's post this problem.