It seems some GAF accounts have been compromised

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iMax

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Happened to me a couple of days ago. Probably a database leak on another site.

I'm not so familiar with vBulletin but why would NeoGAF passwords be on another site's database? Surely it's a completely isolated platform? Or do vBulletin host it centrally themselves?
 

FyreWulff

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FYI, there's a giant horrendous bug with Joomla right now that lets anyone basically automate scanning for Joomla installs and completely rip the site and grab the database

http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/1...an-hijack-joomla-sites-via-user-agent-strings

Seeing as how a lot of the hijacks are people that like to play Halo (?) there might be a Halo-related site out there using Joomla that just got hijacked

I highly suggest you change your password if you use common passwords and have used a Joomla powered site
 

Jarmel

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It's worth noting that Nexus Mods had a database breach a week ago. That's not to say it's related but it's possible.

http://www.nexusmods.com/games/news/12675/?

I'm not so familiar with vBulletin but why would NeoGAF passwords be on another site's database? Surely it's a completely isolated platform? Or do vBulletin host it centrally themselves?

I used an old 'common' password for a few sites. Guessing there was a database breach elsewhere and the guy tried here and got lucky.
 
I'm not so familiar with vBulletin but why would NeoGAF passwords be on another site's database? Surely it's a completely isolated platform? Or do vBulletin host it centrally themselves?

It's people using the same username/password on other sites.
 

Dram

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I think a legitimate suicide would be a bit more interesting after being on the forum for 8 years.
Hasn't there been a few members who wanted to get banned so they said something racist?

I know there was someone in a game trade thread who did that.
 

Chinner

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KONAMI IS THE BEST DEVELOPER. FUCK THE HATERS! BISHOPTL'S AVATAR SUCKS.
Metal Gear Solid V is a good game. It is well designed, and has a whole story. The missions are not repetitive. The characters portray depth and personality. The story is not sparse, and side quests contain variety.
 

Sai-kun

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Metal Gear Solid V is a good game. It is well designed, and has a whole story. The missions are not repetitive. The characters portray depth and personality. The story is not sparse, and side quests contain variety.

admins please help our dear duck friend has been hacked

fix it evilore
 

DietRob

i've been begging for over 5 years.
I love all of the Trump threads in the OT. I think they are great and we need to have more of them on a daily basis.
 
jeez, went to change my password, and when relogging back in it accepted the new password but kept booting me back to the main website asking me to login again. I'm on chrome so I switched to firefox, where its letting me stay logged in. Wonder if its a cookie issue.
 

strafer

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Does GAF have a 3 try limit when logging in? I need to logout and see if a remember my pass, but dont wanna get myself locked out in the process.
 

Toa TAK

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Thanks for the heads up, OP.

Just did the deed. Let this post be a marker in case I do or say anything wildly racist or just plain mean in the future.
 
I tried changing my password after seeing this thread, then my account locked me out for a few minutes. Then I finally got back in and changed my password, but now I keep getting logged out of my account and have to re-log back in.

I'm scared, GAF. Hold me.
 
I tried changing my password after seeing this thread, then my account locked me out for a few minutes. Then I finally got back in and changed my password, but now I keep getting logged out of my account and have to re-log back in.

I'm scared, GAF. Hold me.
Same happened to me. I unchecked the remember me box then entered my new password then checked the box again and it seemed to work.
 

Euron

Member
Well shit that's actually pretty horrible. GAF has become my internet home now so I doubt I could just go to another forum. Stay safe everyone.
 

Fracas

#fuckonami
I tried changing my password after seeing this thread, then my account locked me out for a few minutes. Then I finally got back in and changed my password, but now I keep getting logged out of my account and have to re-log back in.

I'm scared, GAF. Hold me.

I'm expecting something to happen with mine since I called attention to the doofus that's messing with stuff, lol.
 

Stinkles

Clothed, sober, cooperative
FYI, there's a giant horrendous bug with Joomla right now that lets anyone basically automate scanning for Joomla installs and completely rip the site and grab the database

http://news.slashdot.org/story/15/1...an-hijack-joomla-sites-via-user-agent-strings

Seeing as how a lot of the hijacks are people that like to play Halo (?) there might be a Halo-related site out there using Joomla that just got hijacked

I highly suggest you change your password if you use common passwords and have used a Joomla powered site

Mine was sort of guessable, simply hadn't changed it in a decade, and I don't use Joomla sites, to the best of my knowledge. Further, the "hacker" appears to be a random dude, rather than a Halo fan - he posted some racist garbage in the OT instead of doing an epic "barn leak" so it may simply be a dumb script kiddie with too much time on his hands.
 

Quick

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Just remembered that the email I used to register on GAF is gone, which mod do I contact to change this?

Thanks for the head's up, OP.
 
I tried changing my password after seeing this thread, then my account locked me out for a few minutes. Then I finally got back in and changed my password, but now I keep getting logged out of my account and have to re-log back in.

I'm scared, GAF. Hold me.

not sure if its similar to mine, but i kept having to re-log everytime through chrome which i just posted about a few posts up. I ended up leaving the main page where i was having the issue, going to a random thread, clicking on the reply button, and logged in through there. the login process finally worked when it did it like that.
 
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