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

philgee

Just checked my email, and got one too

colin79666

I too have received one of these emails.
I can provide the full header information to forums admins by request.

Extremely irritated that a breach in the past was not communicated to us. That is very bad form!

Philippa36

I got one too, straight into my spam folder - good old gmail

ankspon

Is it just the link that is dodgy or the e-mail itself

payless

Yep, another here..

hate to think how many those multiple AE's get

Seriously, as it seems obvious they are using data from MSE - it needs looking at ...

lucky it was so poor , as a good email with hidden links might have caused more damage

ClootiesMum

Got one here as well - straight into junk folder all by itself

lou66_2

HI
Got one this afternoon joined in 2009 but have not been on for at least six months and had to get a reminder about my password this afternoon and then got a eamil from them at six this evening.

colin79666

MSE_Webmaster wrote: »

Hi Tigsteroonie,

We have no way of knowing definitively what they did or did not take and I can't go into the details of the system behind it but vBulletin double encrypts passwords. For someone to take the passwords and decrypt them would take quite a bit of effort.

I would always recommend against using the same/similar passwords on multiple sites.


Webby

Does it not use a one way hash to store the passwords?

squibbs25

I got one too!
Again (luckily) straight into my junk folder, on first glance i wondered why it went in there, now i know!!!!

chris_n_tj

I recieved one this morning, but as it went to my junk mail i just deleted it. Then on coming onto the site i realised there was a problem.

I never even opened the email, I sort of knew it wasnt from MSE, the look of the email just looked wrong.

Anyway I have changed my pasword to be on the safe side, although i didnt use it anywhere else. I dont use the same password for anything, i think that would be asking for trouble.

No doubt we shall be told whats happened when the team get to the bottom of this. Well I would hope we will be informed. Not being very computer savy should I be worried?