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Got this email (SPAM) in my in box, here at the board! Looks like there was a breach, JasonH.

 

From Forum administration

 

Sent: Fri May 08, 2009 6:23 pm

From: profilicus

To: DataAve

Important to read!

 

"Important to read" was a link to a Drug Site!

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Came from here to my email on record here (like when you subscribe to thread) That is probably why some didn't get it, because you weren't subscribed to that thread. When I clicked link, came here to my inbox with the same message as if the Admin PM'd me.

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Hmm that's pretty weird. Maybe I banned him before he got everyone?

I know at least 1,000 members got hit by it. Looking at the logs, the server sent about 1,300 emails today...and that's just members who have email notification turned on. Normally the server only sends about 200 emails a day.

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Jason,

 

I was hit by this guy yesterday on another forum that I am on.

 

You don't have to worry about whether he got to your admin controls, the way he works is he signs up for a forum by hand, then once he is signed in he uses a bot to mail-bomb the forum's memberlist.php page.

 

Check your PMs.

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