IMPORTANT! Have you received an email to your forum username?

RacyRed

Me too.

To an email address that is not my normal one.

What has happened MSE?

Former_MSE_Webmaster

Hi folks,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we're looking into it as a matter of urgency.

DO NOT CLICK ON ANY LINKS IN THAT E-MAIL!!! It is likely to link to a trojan or other types of malware.

Please note that we would never voluntarily allow anyone access to your personal information so we're investigating the security side of things.


Webby

Murphy_The_Cat

MSE_Webmaster wrote: »

Hi folks,

Thanks for bringing this to our attention, we're looking into it as a matter of urgency.


Webby

nice one webby

I'm glad that I'm not you this morning

Edinburghlass_2

A third email has arrived to a different email address I have which isn't registered to MSE at all.

soolin

Just to add that I have one as well and to the correct address, ie the one I use for MSE and which unfortunately is also my professional email.

Virgin did pick it up as spam so it was in my junk folder.

soolin

Edinburghlass wrote: »

A third email has arrived to a different email address I have which isn't registered to MSE at all.

That's a bit of a worry as it shows something quite clever if they can link you to other emails.

I'm just checking some of my other accounts now.

Stonk

Me too.

Like an earlier poster, I use a different email address for every single thing I sign up for (so I can disable any that start receiving excessive spam, and so I can track down which organisation leaked it). I can absolutely confirm that the email address to which today's spam was sent is (was!) known ONLY to MoneySavingExpert. Since it's not publicly visible on MSE, the inevitable conclusion is that MSE has been hacked.

soolin

I'll send the full headers to webby if required but just for info the original 'from' address was business at moneyexpert dot com

Murphy_The_Cat

Stonk wrote: »

the inevitable conclusion is that MSE has been hacked.

or sold the list/s
or suffered internal theft
or 'lost' a laptop
or sent in error

etc etc.

beverleyhills

I received the same email which was directed to the spam folder.