Kage
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How protected are we on this site?
The reason I ask is, I'm on another forum that must use the same database as this, and yesterday, my account was obviously hacked.
I kept getting e-mails reporting that my new password had been sent to me about 5 times yesterday.
I tried logging in with the last password I got sent, to find that I couldn't even get on with that.
Someone had obviously somehow got the new password it had sent (I don't know if I used the same password for e-mail, but they haven't changed that), and took my account, changing the password, and e-mail to it, because I can't even request one myself.
Weird, huh? Its caused me now to have a different password for EACH forum, but just written down somewhere safe and stored.
Why they'd want my account I don't know. I even use a very old username that I don't use anymore, so it shows how often I go on it, but still, scary.
The reason I ask is, I'm on another forum that must use the same database as this, and yesterday, my account was obviously hacked.
I kept getting e-mails reporting that my new password had been sent to me about 5 times yesterday.
I tried logging in with the last password I got sent, to find that I couldn't even get on with that.
Someone had obviously somehow got the new password it had sent (I don't know if I used the same password for e-mail, but they haven't changed that), and took my account, changing the password, and e-mail to it, because I can't even request one myself.
Weird, huh? Its caused me now to have a different password for EACH forum, but just written down somewhere safe and stored.
Why they'd want my account I don't know. I even use a very old username that I don't use anymore, so it shows how often I go on it, but still, scary.