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Accounts being hacked!

Started by nikbj68, April 07, 2015, 16:06:35

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nikbj68

Yeah, it will never happen to me, I have a good password that I`ve used since I first joined the forum....BUT today, my account was hacked & some random posting made. [B)][:(!]
   It appears to be happening more and more, the whole forum was down last week as our admins dealt with a similar event(Thanks Chaps!).
   
   May I suggest we all increase our password crypticness, with numbers & capitals to keep these beggars out!

hawk289

Interesting, the snitz forum needs constant updates. I think someone has scraped the DB with users or a SQL injection has worked. Not uncommon, would recommend people change there passwords. People commonly use the same username and password combination for a number of sites, recommend change.

nikbj68

Not content with hacking current users, there have been a number of new users created, which is supposed to required admin manual approval:
   gjsikset    - 06 April 2015
   nwfasyydo   - 06 April 2015
   gjemxreg    - 06 April 2015
   earn online - 03 April 2015
   rqfnzmhla   - 03 April 2015
   
   I hate SQL injections... [:0]
   Thanks again for keeping on top of this, Admin team!