Apparently, im going to have my myspace account hacked into by an obbsessive **** in the states.
My myspace profile points to my e-mail which is used for EVERYTHING. including this forum. The person is using a hacked account already, and has made a (sad) attempt at trying to get nudity from me, something which would never happen anyway, but its besides the point.
If he hacks that, hell probably get into my mail as well, which means this forum. So if posts start cropping up that arnt 'like me' then it probably isnt me.
This is NOT what i need right now. If there are any ways of preventing it id be interested.
Change all of your passwords?
Done it multiple times, and changed the contact e-mail address to a different one.
Gah this is such a burden...
You're fault for a simple password.
Or he used an exploit and hence doesn't have your password.
Most likely he used something that hashed the same, so I know BZComplex is safe since it uses a different hashing algorithm than anything else.
Change the email used on Myspace to something else?
If we notice anything unusual, we'll tell him to piss off, don't worry.
Who is this guy anyway? Any idea?
Probly doesn't care anything about bz2 anyhow so he probably would leave this forum alone.
Contact facebook.
It's myspace anyway, and Facebook don't like getting involved in any circumstances.
Myspace, sorry. I've had to contact facebook disabling my facebook account randomly. I got a reply within 24 hours and it was unlocked. Apparently my account was flagged as a bot by their system
I sometimes wonder what those people are like in real life....
Quote from: cheesepuffly on June 24, 2009, 09:31:11 PM
I sometimes wonder what those people are like in real life....
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This is why they do it over the internet instead.
Change your e-mail password and you should be good. I highly doubt anything bad will happen to your account on this particular site.
ive changed the account password AND the e-mail address. hipefully there arnt any tails that lead to my proper used e-mail address. had to set one up to change it though, but never mind.
i doubt theres any exploit as such, but i dont know, hes using a hacked account to do it as it is. it sounds like a bit of a prat of an ex-boyfriend to me, as it seems to be his ex-girlfriends account hes using, hence the part about nudity. some people never grow up. updated my security settings to the max.
I'll ban your account for now in case this isn't you...
Quote from: Nielk1 on June 24, 2009, 07:48:06 PM
You're fault for a simple password.
Or he used an exploit and hence doesn't have your password.
Most likely he used something that hashed the same, so I know BZComplex is safe since it uses a different hashing algorithm than anything else.
I would argue myspace's fault more than his. You do know on multiple occasions, intruders have gotten the entire PLAIN TEXT password database from them right?
Quote from: Sonic on June 25, 2009, 01:32:01 AM
I would argue myspace's fault more than his. You do know on multiple occasions, intruders have gotten the entire PLAIN TEXT password database from them right?
Myspace is fairly popular thus meaning there will be alot of hackers. Unless myspace's security just plan sucks balls, im sure tons of people want to hack it cause there are a ton of things to get there.
The fact passwords are in plain text would suggest poor security. Even with a database dump of the forums here, I cannot get access to plain text passwords because simply put, there is none. Your passwords are hash using your username as a salt; very difficult to get the password from that effeciently.
I kinda get what your saying here, but what do YOU mean by plain text passwords?
An unencrypted list of usernames>passwords for a site.
Have different passwords for everything! ESPECIALLY your email account. That way if he hacks the password for your myspace account it wont be any use to him if he tries to hack your email account.
I have about 7 different common passwords that I have stored in my head (over the course of several years). And I might use them for 30 different things, and in some cases use variations of them (like if one of my favorite passwords was 'damocles', i fudge the word slightly like into 'damocl3s' or 'damocles13' (if 13 was my favorite number) or something like that)
Your email box is the most sacred one so make sure it has a unique password to everything else. And NEVER put your email password into another webpage aside from the one you normally log into it from. That way the hacker cannot crack the password and then use the 'rcover lost password' feature to compromise your other accounts.
Your account is "going to" be hacked?
If you ask me, it sounds like an empty threat.
The kind of people who are capable of hacking myspace are not pathetic stalkers.
If he gets your password at all, it will be through a keylogger, which will not infact get on your machine unless you NEVER do any security stuff on your computer (updates, firewall, antivirus), or if you're really gullible and he tricks you into giving it away.
Ive heard nothing back from whoever it is. I think ZA is right in that its an empty threat, i know hes using a hacked account but given that it seems to be someone he knows he may have known the password or the information neccesary to reset it.
All my passwords have changed except the ones for the BZ forums, mainly because my password is a registration number that no one is ever going to be able to guess.
Im not stupid either, i know what a keylogger is as iver used one before, but nothings getting through to this laptop from myspace. Hopefully no electronic tails lead to BZU now, as the details are all totally different. E-mail address has alwasy been different as well. I think we are safe tbh. Its probably the initial 'oh crap what am i gunna do' that sparked this post.
Quote from: VSMIT on June 25, 2009, 02:52:38 AM
An unencrypted list of usernames>passwords for a site.
oooooooooooh, i thought they ment the pass words were just plain text instead of some complicated nonsensical combinaton.