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Old 22-06-2007, 09:07   #1
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VM email database been hacked again?

Anyone else seen an upsurge in spam over the last week? I have, and several have been to an address that's supposedly only known to me and VM!

Jail is too good for these guys. Grrrrr!
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Old 22-06-2007, 10:21   #2
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Re: VM email database been hacked again?

Not had anything sent to me but then I never really used the account for anything lol
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Old 22-06-2007, 10:29   #3
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Re: VM email database been hacked again?

Dictionary attack, or possibly your PC is vulnerable and your email accounts have been key stroked.
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Old 22-06-2007, 18:31   #4
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Re: VM email database been hacked again?

[QUOTE=altis;34333658]Anyone else seen an upsurge in spam over the last week? I have, and several have been to an address that's supposedly only known to me and VM![QUOTE]

Now you mention it yes.

Been getting crap like this >>>>
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From: Lynn Lang [fcytosine@nedbel.be]
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And stupid bloody poems going to 3 of the 4 VM email accounts we have on our machine, the only one that doesnt get them is the one we use for ebay.
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Old 22-06-2007, 20:01   #5
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Re: VM email database been hacked again?

yes ive had a couple this week
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Old 22-06-2007, 20:16   #6
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Re: VM email database been hacked again?

This was the last one:
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What brought this to my attention was one a few days ago that had 3 addresses in the To: list - all of them mine! One of these I had long forgotten about and hadn't been accessing for months since a Windows reinstall. To me that's too much of a coincidence for them not to have been sourced from one place. And, unless these spammers are happy to sit on an address for months, it's not here.
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Old 22-06-2007, 21:08   #7
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Re: VM email database been hacked again?

I've also been receiving more SPAM than over the last week, but still only 5 - 6/day. But at least I'm not back up to the 130/day I was getting on the same NTL email account a couple of years ago!!!
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