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smudger1946

Mornin,


I have a strange problem with my email system at Lycos, it seems to have started when TALKTALK were attacked, although this problem may have noting to do with that.


I do pay for my broadband with TALKTALK through this email account.


I have had this account for fifteen years, all sent emails are sent to sent box, when I looked in sent box all the emails in there are from 08-09 and they have been doubled up,all the rest have disappeared, emails I have sent in the last couple of weeks aren't being saved to sent box either.
Any ideas what's going on??

grumpycrab

smudger1946 wrote: »

when I looked in sent box all the emails in there are from 08-09 and they have been doubled up,all the rest have disappeared, emails I have sent in the last couple of weeks aren't being saved to sent box either.

Is this using https://webmail.lycos.com/ ? OR are you accessing by other means?

smudger1946

yes the first option.

grumpycrab

My mail seems to be ok. Mail status says nothing (last updated 2013!). If you're paying for an upgraded account you may get support. If you're worried about losing email make a LOCAL backup (archive) using
http://www.mailstore.com/en/mailstore-home-email-archiving.aspx

smudger1946

Not worried about lost emails, just wondered whether someone had been interfering with my with my email as I am with TALKTALK, maybe me being overly cautious.

enfield_freddy

as you might be aware , talk talk was hacked several weeks ago and their website and other sections were compromised , some say children , some say ransom ?


3 weeks after being this the website vhas just come back online , its not the same website , its new!


which leads a lot of people , inc members of the online community to ask , "did talk talk not buy they keys back?"


it looks like they have started from scratch , and cobbled together whatever info they had , lots of pages missing etc , I could even think that the mail servers are a "cobbled up" remains of what was left

AndyPix

Can I just clear up here what actually happened to talktalk.
There seems to be lots of wild stories and rumour going round.

The were the victim of an SQL injection attack on their WEBSITE, not any of their backend databases.
An SQL injection attack basically forces the webpage to display things that it wouldn't normally show to that user.
But the only data that the actual website will hold, is what you would see yourself if you were logged into your own control panel on the talktalk website.

So all this fuss about "oh !!!! id better change the combination to my floor safe at home, and my pie burnt in the oven last night it must be due to the talktalk hack" is complete rubbish.

When you log into your talktalk control panel, can you see the password to your email account ?
No - so its impossible that that information was gathered.
You can see your credit card number, in this format - **** **** **** 4521
What use is that information to anyone ? : answer - none

The only useful information that the hackers would have harvested is your account number coupled with your address and possibly your date of birth - thus giving them the ability to call you and pretend to be talktalk.
And that is where the scam BEGINS
People are losing money because they are falling for the social engineering that starts with the caller convincing you they are calling from talktalk by providing you with your account number etc .

The rest of the scam follows the exact same script as the age old "im calling from Microsoft" spiel.

In this day and age, for a website to be coded to allow SQL injection is laughable. The developer should be shot - Basic security is to sanatise user inputs for sql code.

THAT is why they are building a new website.

The perps were just script kiddies who happened across a big fish with a !!!! website

smudger1946

So that says it all, I do understand I think, thanks for clearing that up my friends.
Thanks from
Smudger
Low tech is my business, i'm a chippy!!!

enfield_freddy

smudger1946 wrote: »

So that says it all, I do understand I think, thanks for clearing that up my friends.
Thanks from
Smudger
Low tech is my business, i'm a chippy!!!

increase your turnover quickly , or Mc donuts will snap you up!

Maelwys

smudger1946 wrote: »

Any ideas what's going on??

Could be a dodgy mail profile. Is it an IMAP mailbox or a POP3 one?

Both can be configured to "leave a copy of items on the server" but some IMAP accounts default to keeping them practically forever.

Usually this is only applicable to local profiles (e.g. Outlook/Thunderbird) but I've seen webmail and OWA affected the same way before since they work off a Mailbox "cache", just one that's located off in the cloud somewhere instead of on your local PC. Might be worth getting your ISP to check the profile for you and see if it needs resynched.

smudger1946

I moaned to Lycos mail yesterday and today all of my past emails have returned, well I never.
Thanks all.
Smudger