Has MFP been hacked again?

yirara
yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
in Health and Weight Loss
Got a lot of spam since yesterday, all addressed to Yirara - a name I only use here. MFP, what's going on?

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  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    ruh roh.

  • RunStart34
    RunStart34 Posts: 164 Member
    Ghosh.. i hope not. because of the last Hack it mess with a lot of my accounts. Not that i didn't learned from it but still sucks.
  • glassyo
    glassyo Posts: 7,763 Member
    Hmmmmm...my spam count has been up too but I also do a couple websites that give points for clicking on links.

    My favorite was still getting snail mail addressed to my usual internet name when I used it on that stupid Next Door app.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,688 Member
    Old hacks can come home to roost years later, if IDs/data are still being exchanged on the dark web. I'm not saying there can't be a new problem, because there can . . . just saying that a new symptom can also still be from an old problem. (I haven't seen any extra spam lately in the mail account MFP knows about, and definitely none that reference to my MFP ID. Of course, truly egregious spam gets caught by the provider and never even shows up in my spam folder.)
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 9,993 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Old hacks can come home to roost years later, if IDs/data are still being exchanged on the dark web. I'm not saying there can't be a new problem, because there can . . . just saying that a new symptom can also still be from an old problem. (I haven't seen any extra spam lately in the mail account MFP knows about, and definitely none that reference to my MFP ID. Of course, truly egregious spam gets caught by the provider and never even shows up in my spam folder.)

    True. it can all come back. I was curious if someone else experienced the same. My email comes in via a small local server, and I often check what gets caught up in the filter. So yeah, I see these things.
  • Strudders67
    Strudders67 Posts: 989 Member
    Your post prompted me to check my Spam folder, which I don't do very regularly. Plenty of the usual rubbish, and two emails that actually weren't Spam, but not more than I'd expect given that I haven't looked at it for about a month.
  • snowflake954
    snowflake954 Posts: 8,399 Member
    Yes--I have a great deal more spam recently. Most gets caught in the filter, and I monitor it to make sure there's nothing important. This has been happening for several weeks, plus the language changes constantly on MFP when I change pages. Then I get no photos on my newsfeed--just the comments. Sigh. Why does this site keep going bonkers? I'm tired of it.

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