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    Exclamation Suspected site breach

    hey could one of the admins contact me please, i suspect i have information that might be related to a breach of this site, as i found a huge hash/user list online that had my username, email and hashed password and i have only ever used the username "jasontheblob" on this site.

    i wont publish the link here, as i dont want the masses to see it. so please can an administrator message me and ill send them more info + give them a link to where i found it.

    thanks alot

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    Jason is a Guildcast listener, and emailed the information and list to me. He pointed out my own information on the list, and the information was correct. I changed my password immediately, but that's pretty creepy. Dislike!

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    That might explain the huge increase of spam messages I get on my email addres...

    Also changed my password.
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    A little reminder:

    With any site, it is a good idea NOT to double up on and use important email accounts and passwords (i.e. ones used for banking, Guild Wars, etc.); or even one or the other (imho).
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    I don't think I use the password for this site anywhere else, but changed anyway.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lady Rhonwyn View Post
    That might explain the huge increase of spam messages I get on my email addres...

    Also changed my password.
    Obvious scams? I must have gotten a dozen a couple of weeks ago, on an address I only used here. Amusing as they were, it still got annoying enough to pull the plug on that sub-account.

    It's not the first time that's happened, either. The last time around it was constant phishing emails for a WoW account that I don't even have. The address was the one I used here, and used nowhere else.

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    password changed.

    any word from the admins as to how that happened? heh.
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    Wait, so you mean someone could log into my gwo account and troll everyone on the foru- ohwaitaminute >_>
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    Changed my password even tho it's unique to this site. Better safe then sorry.
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    Out of curiosity, could I post a bunch of spammy messages to raise my level and then be all "omg I was hacked"?

    Sigh changing password.

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