Moderators drscorpio Posted October 4, 2019 Moderators Report Share Posted October 4, 2019 We have had a huge influx of spam being sent by private message. Please continue to report them. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted October 12, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted October 12, 2019 I've taken a pretty close look at what was happening. I've deleted the accounts of the people who were spammers (which should delete the messages). I've also devised a SQL query that helps me identify people who are spamming through the message system, which I'll check periodically. I won't go into the details of the patterns I noticed, since I don't want hackers knowing what not to do. But the attack seemed to come from Ukraine. I also noticed a problem where it seemed a few users (@Botsub, @mplsnegpig4poz & @bbcunthole) have had their account passwords compromised and weird things were happening as a result. I've changed those users passwords – they'll need to do a "I forgot my password" to reset their passwords. That should solve the issue of hackers using their account provided the hackers don't have access to their email account as well. Edit: Actually, I'm not confident that those users had their passwords compromised. The more I look at it the odder it looks. It may be a glitch in the system where, when I delete a user, stuff goes into the moderation log that doesn't belong there. I had banned the IP address used by those users. That's reversed. But I can't restore their passwords, so they'll need to do a "forgot password" (sorry about that, assuming it was a random glitch that caused me to modify your password.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChaserCurious Posted October 19, 2019 Report Share Posted October 19, 2019 How do we report spam messages? I just got one, but didn’t see a clear way to “report as spam”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators rawTOP Posted October 23, 2019 Administrators Report Share Posted October 23, 2019 I should mention that some of you who had spam sent to you… Yesterday I deleted the spam, but then created a different problem where you weren't able to use messaging. That was corrected this morning after about a half dozen of you sent support requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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