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

pineapple

Is it a good idea for those of us who got the email to change our passwords?

fountainpen

just had one sent to me

swanny65

StumpyPumpy wrote: »

@Swanny65 - I've PMed you. Don't feel too bad about the mistake, it happens to most people at sometime or another, Yes, it is dumb but we are all dumb at times at least you admitted to it. I can't begin to tell you the number of incidents I've dealt with where no one would admit responsibility for their own actions.

Cheers StumpyPumpy.

Been offline a couple of days as I reinstalled the OS on my PC. Fortunately I had cloned/backed up everything important and am back to "normal". Just need to clone the new installation.

I did post the hijackthis log and your identification on another forum i use, https://www.techguy.org, and the initial reply was this type of trojan is almost impossible to remove. Rather than try to remove the damage a reinstall seemed the only option.

I have also changed all passwords and removed any stored credit cards details on my online accounts.

Thanks again

LGG_2

got the email sent to me on the 18th. opened it but didnt click on the link as it was nothing of intrest (thankfully) only found out now that it was something dodgy as i dont come on the board alot

hippey

Can not believe my post was removed, I like MSE Martins comments such as liking it to a house that will get broken into whatever you do. Whilst it's true that people will constantly try to break firewalls & site security it is possible to keep them at bay and my question would be how good was the site security in the first place?
Or were the email addresses stolen from a different area such as the mailing lists?

beliefsvn

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.

Ed_Jogg

beliefsvn wrote: »

...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 tried doing this for a while, and still get emails addressed to [EMAIL="bandq20nov09@domainname.com"]bandq20nov09@domainname.com[/EMAIL], but it caused so much hassle managing the legitimate emails that I gave up. I now use one address for internet shopping, one for banks etc, one for forums...

beliefsvn wrote: »

...the inevitable conclusion is that MSE has been hacked.

That has been noted ad nauseam in this thread. MSE have acknowledged an incident in 2009, and the basic question is whether the spam emails result from that breach or a more recent one that they are unaware of.

Like, I would suspect, the majority of MSE users, I am happy that MSE have our best interests at heart and do everything in their ability to prevent (and manage) such incidents.

nilrem_2

Don't know if it makes any difference regarding the malicious email that this thread is about but I have just noticed that I use 2 different email addresses with MSE, the one that I use in connection with the forum which is the one I received the email on and the other which I use to receive the weekly MSE email which did not seem to receive any malicious email.

(Doubt this info is any use to MSE but posted it just in case.)

buzzyy

hi,ive just logged in,and it says that i have a private messg,is this one of them virus ones?im hoping if it is that some1 here can delete it for me without me doing it im just a bit worried to enen look at it,ta if any1 can help me

nilrem_2

buzzyy wrote: »

hi,ive just logged in,and it says that i have a private messg,is this one of them virus ones?im hoping if it is that some1 here can delete it for me without me doing it im just a bit worried to enen look at it,ta if any1 can help me

It's just a PM from the site advising you about the issue.

It is safe to view!