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Message 1 of 43 (566306)
06-24-2010 6:29 AM


The breakin compromised passwords. Please change your passwords.

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Huntard
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Message 2 of 43 (566314)
06-24-2010 7:22 AM
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06-24-2010 6:29 AM


Thread compromised
The "Racist?" thread is compromised.

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cavediver
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Message 3 of 43 (566318)
06-24-2010 8:10 AM
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06-24-2010 6:29 AM


It is not just username-password association, but also email-password association which is potentially much more concerning...

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Taz
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Message 4 of 43 (566329)
06-24-2010 9:27 AM
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06-24-2010 6:29 AM


So, are you going to have their asses arrested and sent to federal prison? If they're foreigners, I say gitmo.

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 5 of 43 (566330)
06-24-2010 9:30 AM
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06-24-2010 6:29 AM


strongly urge everyone to change their password. If it is a password used at other sites with the same user name then change it there, also. I greatly regret and apologize for the inconvenience.
Can you provide a more clear reason to do so? What exactly has transpired?

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction." — Blaise Pascal

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Message 6 of 43 (566334)
06-24-2010 9:51 AM
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06-24-2010 9:27 AM


Taz writes:
So, are you going to have their asses arrested and sent to federal prison? If they're foreigners, I say gitmo.
Yes they're foreigners. Canadians.

--Percy
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Message 7 of 43 (566339)
06-24-2010 10:02 AM
Reply to: Message 5 by Hyroglyphx
06-24-2010 9:30 AM


There's no way I can know the extent for sure, so I'm encouraging people to be cautious and change their passwords.
What I do know of for sure is that hackers exploited a security hole to find out the passwords of the director accounts, then proceeded to log into these accounts and hack the board. They also hacked one other account that I know of, and I've already changed the password and informed that person.
I've been in contact with the hackers, and they seem a happy bunch intent on demonstrating security holes in obnoxious ways while not causing any permanent damage, but who knows for sure. The security holes they were willing to tell me about, the ones exposing passwords, have already been fixed. I'm sure there are other security holes, and I'll fix them as I learn about them.
The board was last backed up yesterday around 6 PM.

--Percy
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Message 8 of 43 (566357)
06-24-2010 11:22 AM
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06-24-2010 9:51 AM


Canada FTW

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Hyroglyphx
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Message 9 of 43 (566360)
06-24-2010 11:35 AM
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06-24-2010 10:02 AM


Thanks for clarifying. Hopefully their declared benevolent intentions are true, otherwise we're going to have to call upon a very insane man from a Montreal mental hospital to perform assassinations.

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from mistaken conviction." — Blaise Pascal

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Taz
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Message 10 of 43 (566362)
06-24-2010 11:46 AM
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06-24-2010 9:51 AM


I didn't know Canada harbored terrorists. We should invade.

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nwr
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Message 11 of 43 (566381)
06-24-2010 1:14 PM
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06-24-2010 6:29 AM


Please post to this thread any messages or threads that appear to be having problems.
I sent a PM on this last night. There's a problem on politicusmaximus.net, thread 20, probably the last post (4th message) (perhaps posted by the hacker(s)).
If I open that thread, my browser (firefox) goes into a loop and I cannot do anything with it other than shut it down.
If I disable javascript, there is no problem. My guess is that some javascript has been put in that post. The other posts in the thread look okay - they are mine and I can edit them to see that the source content looks okay. But I cannot peek at the suspect message, because peek requires javascript to be enabled.
Note: using "noscript" with firefox, and I have temporarily removed politicusmaximus.net from the noscript whitelist to allow access without the looping.

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DrJones*
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Message 12 of 43 (566407)
06-24-2010 3:19 PM
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06-24-2010 10:02 AM


DrJones* here
They also hacked one other account that I know of, and I've already changed the password and informed that person.
I don't know if i'm the person in question but if I am I haven't received an email yet.
That looks more demanding than I intended, I do realize that you have cleaning up and hole plugging to do.

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CosmicChimp
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Message 13 of 43 (566408)
06-24-2010 3:25 PM


About a month ago my gmail account got hacked by a Chinese group (probably the triads, haha). Like a dummy I had been using the same password in both places, here and there. I fixed my gmail issue immediately then, but have now fixed my evc password AND changed my listed email address as well as made it unlisted.
Edited by CosmicChimp, : No reason given.

My mind keeps trying to copy itself. Try as I might to stop it, almost everything I do seems to be some sort of a crude attempt at making copies. Gawd, what an egomaniac.

  
CosmicChimp
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Message 14 of 43 (566409)
06-24-2010 3:28 PM
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06-24-2010 6:29 AM


Who are these 'fine young gentlemen'?

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Message 15 of 43 (566430)
06-24-2010 4:14 PM
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06-24-2010 11:46 AM


I didn't know Canada harbored terrorists. We should invade.
I'll get my "NO WAR FOR MAPLE SYRUP" banner ready.

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