Announcement Site Hacked

[threescatters]

Thank you for alerting us to the hack, definitely the correct course of action.

The site is still running slowly for me today btw

 

[spintee]

Thank you for alerting us to the hack, definitely the correct course of action.

The site is still running slowly for me today btw

Yes still slow for me also

 

[halcyon1234]

Thanks for the notice, Meister.

For the super lazy (like me), here's the link to reset your password: Link Outdated / Removed.

Even if you don't use the same password here as on your email, it's still worth changing. As mentioned in previous posts, it's only a matter of time before the passwords get cracked. At that point, the attacker will try to log onto this forum with your username and password, and post spam under your name. Be kind to yourself. Be kind to everyone else. Change your password.

 

[Nifty29]

I recently changed my email address when I shut down PV. Should be interesting to see if I start getting junk mail other than the usual crap.

Slight derail....why did you shut down PV???

 

[maxd]

Slight derail....why did you shut down PV???

Let's not derail this, your question has been moved to a new thread: Nifty's question.

 

[airwave]

As far as I remember the starred ones above only started appearing recently, like the last week or less.

It sounds like you're suggesting that some of those cookies may belong to whomever hacked the site. If so, that would definitely be a clear fingerprint to uncover who the guilty party is.

Sorry to hear that your site was hacked, Bryan.

 

[Booo73]

Well I'm not sure if it's from this site's hacking or not but I just got an email from Super Slimmer (whoever they are) but the email it came from is my email addy. How is it possible to have the same email address for the sender and recipient?

 

[Captain Chaos]

Well I'm not sure if it's from this site's hacking or not but I just got an email from Super Slimmer (whoever they are) but the email it came from is my email addy. How is it possible to have the same email address for the sender and recipient?

Possible they logged into your email and sent it to yourself? Or an email spoofing service?

 

[airwave]

Email headers are often forged. It's just a gimmick to get people to open the message. It's more alarming when it says it is from someone who is in your address book, because that means one of you has a compromised mailbox.

 

[juliepiggott]

Thanks for the update.. just had to do the same with my ebay account after the site suffered a similar attack.

 

[Booo73]

Possible they logged into your email and sent it to yourself? Or an email spoofing service?

My email password is unique to anything else I do online (casino passwords,forums ect) so they couldn't have gotten it from hacking Casinomeister. But I guess there's software that can hack it so now what do I do? I've had the same email addy for 17 years. I wouldn't even know where to start to change it with all of the sites I belong to. Not sure what an email spoofing service is. Can you please elaborate?

 

[Azzurri]

Just great! First Ebay and now this!

Good to know it's not just at the casinos where my bad luck run continues.

What's next for goodness sake?

Sorry it had to happen to a nice bloke Bryan.

 

[spintee]

Well I'm not sure if it's from this site's hacking or not but I just got an email from Super Slimmer (whoever they are) but the email it came from is my email addy. How is it possible to have the same email address for the sender and recipient?

There is ways around to send email and get it as from your self, I member a good few years back 24x used to do free sms and could send message to somebodys phone from any persons number, so you could send a message to your mate and put in another mates number, I do not think its ever been legit but they soon stooped it, Again theres probs ways around that now also but was simple as to put in there numbers and text b4

 

[Captain Chaos]

Email spoofing is pretty much what airwave said. It's forging the header or sender information to make an email look like it has come from somewhere else. Usually with the intention of getting you to open it and trust the content more. It's an old trick that's been going on for years. A lot of the time these days they are usually used to try and circumvent junk mail filters etc.

 

[Booo73]

Thanks Captain and airwave. Most likely is a spoofing service by the look of it then. Was worried for a minute there that I was hacked. Thanks for your input. Much appreciated. I'll post again if anything else happens

 

[Captain Chaos]

Thanks Captain and airwave. Most likely is a spoofing service by the look of it then. Was worried for a minute there that I was hacked. Thanks for your input. Much appreciated. I'll post again if anything else happens

You're welcome. Sorry if I may have made you panic!

 

[Casinomeister]

Also I have just tried to go to forum and got this pop up, Nothing to do with 32red and happened a few times in recent days,

Hope all gets sorted for you and thanks for letting us no

Damn 32Red guys - dodgy as hell



That's associated with the script for their leader board which is actually located in the middle of the right panel. You may have clicked from one page to another too quickly and the script didn't have a chance to properly load. You're too fast for the hamster.

As for the cookies that you might find, you'll get those when you click links to those sites - they are pretty innocuous.

 

[Booo73]

You're welcome. Sorry if I may have made you panic!

No worries darlin. You learn something new every day and that was my something new for today . Now I can give my brain the rest of the day off lmao

 

[catapultaudio]

There is ways around to send email and get it as from your self, I member a good few years back 24x used to do free sms and could send message to somebodys phone from any persons number, so you could send a message to your mate and put in another mates number, I do not think its ever been legit but they soon stooped it, Again theres probs ways around that now also but was simple as to put in there numbers and text b4

E-mail is an inherently insecure method of communication, when connected directly with an email server you are able to specify any "from" text you like, luckily though these days most providers automatically detect these 'forged headers and mark the message as spam.

Also re 24x, am pretty certain you can still send SMS with fake from text now if you buy credits, we used to send adverts for our club nights from "mum" which was pretty funny at the time..

 

[Booo73]

Wow these guys will try anything. This time I got an email from myself but apparently I'm Skrill now lol. Is there any way to stop this spoofing crap or am I gonna have to close down my email and get a new one? Do you think they'll give up when they realize I'm not falling for it?

 

[kauphy]

just wondering for the last couple of days while i,m reading a thread everytime i would hit it to go to the next page it would take me to double down casino on

facebook and i would have to close that page so i could get to the next page. i thought maybe this was done to get people to play at double down casino i just could,nt

understand why casinomeister was doing it?

so i take it that this also was caused by this site being hacked?

 

[airwave]

Wow these guys will try anything. This time I got an email from myself but apparently I'm Skrill now lol. Is there any way to stop this spoofing crap or am I gonna have to close down my email and get a new one? Do you think they'll give up when they realize I'm not falling for it?

I'm not aware of anything much you can do about it other than to ask your host/email provider to block the offending IP address.