Boards.ie hacked?

dudara · 13-08-2019 9:06am

Please continue to report. I know there are thousands of them out there, but the odd new user is popping up and we don’t want to miss any

PhilipJ · 13-08-2019 9:06am

dudara wrote: »

To re-iterate: there has been no known data breach on Boards.

This spam is as a result of bot accounts signing up and sending spam PMs. Your personal data has not been breached.

There has been another wave overnight but again, the lads in HQ are doing a trojan job in cleaning up all this mess.

I received one this morning too at 7.41am.

Sardonicat · 13-08-2019 9:09am

Got one this morning, too. Access to boards on my phone is now gone.

13-08-2019 9:10am

I got one this morning from a 'Siora91'

gimli2112 · 13-08-2019 9:10am

I'm immediately suspicious when an internet stranger calls me honey

wonski · 13-08-2019 9:12am

Siara19 sent me one at 08:30.

Beasty · 13-08-2019 9:15am

All the new PMs from overnight should now be deleted. Unfortunately though there are a very large number of e-mails with content sent which we cannot deal with, so please remain vigilant

TheShow · 13-08-2019 9:16am

Siora91, seems friendly.

DBB · 13-08-2019 9:16am

bubblypop wrote: »

I got one this morning from a 'Siora91'

I got one from Siora91 this morning too

riggerman · 13-08-2019 9:19am

Yep got one this morning. Pm is still there from Sara.

Timberrrrrrrr · 13-08-2019 9:19am

Just got siora one myself

davo2001 · 13-08-2019 9:20am

Beasty wrote: »

All the new PMs from overnight should now be deleted. Unfortunately though there are a very large number of e-mails with content sent which we cannot deal with, so please remain vigilant

Do you suggest changing our boards password? Has any personal details/data/password been compromised?

zapper55 · 13-08-2019 9:20am

This hacking business is great, I've an offer of nude cosplay

Sono · 13-08-2019 9:22am

Siara19 just sent me a lovely PM, she wants to meet me, what you guys think?

ebbsy · 13-08-2019 9:23am

DBB wrote: »

I got one from Siora91 this morning too

Fair play, She's a real goer I hear.

kyleman · 13-08-2019 9:23am

Received same

Beasty · 13-08-2019 9:27am

davo2001 wrote: »

Do you suggest changing our boards password? Has any personal details/data/password been compromised?

They are setting up new accounts, not trying to infiltrate existing ones. As already mentioned I'm certainly not aware of any personal data being compromised

Periodically changing passwords is good practice anyway

Old Perry · 13-08-2019 9:28am

Dammit she's been banned before I even got a chance !!

Beasty · 13-08-2019 9:28am

ebbsy wrote: »

Fair play, She's a real goer I hear.

She'd have to be to get through all those "contacts" she's making:)

twiglet24 · 13-08-2019 9:29am

I got one too. Still showing in my inbox?

BonnieSituation · 13-08-2019 9:30am

Received a message from 'Oria2' at 840am this morning.

Patser · 13-08-2019 9:31am

Siara19 is new name in town

Rossi IRL · 13-08-2019 9:31am

Why not just make it so that you can't send PMs from new accounts.

oholly121 · 13-08-2019 9:32am

Yeah Siora1 here too

drunkmonkey · 13-08-2019 9:34am

Just got one Recipients: bambooman2, DARCHA22, drunkmonkey, paul_ie86, washwell

Dtoffee · 13-08-2019 9:38am

I got one at 07.44 this morning ..... Siora1

barefoot · 13-08-2019 9:38am

I got a PM...Slara19... and an email.....Siora1

wally79 · 13-08-2019 9:43am

Siara19 in PM inbox since 8:27

Beasty · 13-08-2019 9:44am

Beasty wrote: »

All the new PMs from overnight should now be deleted. Unfortunately though there are a very large number of e-mails with content sent which we cannot deal with, so please remain vigilant

Apologies, but it seems that with so many PMs it takes the system some time to catch up with the deletions. The development team should be in now and looking at ways to accelerate the deletions

bobbyss · 13-08-2019 9:58am

Can't access boards from my mobile since last night. Just get this twirling circle kind of thing. Do I have some kind of virus or what? Laptop seems ok so far. I had thought about uninstalling it but checked first with the Playstore and it doesn't seem to be there to download at all. What's going on?

Can anyone explain what Touch Site, Responsive Site [/I]and Legacy mean? Never understood all of that.

Sin City · 13-08-2019 10:01am

Got a message from siora91

dudara · 13-08-2019 10:02am

There’s a thread in the Help desk which explains how you can download the app from the Play store.

There’s nothing wrong with your mobile or app. Cloudflare Protection for this site has been dialed up as a response to these spam attacks. This is causing some people to have difficulty in accessing the site. Please bear with it, it should only be temporary.

vicwatson · 13-08-2019 10:04am

Siora91 at 07.43 today, didn’t open

Mr.Crinklewood · 13-08-2019 10:06am

Received one at 0830

Can boards temporarily deny access to PM and do a mass delete of spam?

PinkGeekette · 13-08-2019 10:15am

I would love to know how these people got my email address??? Boards.ie, have you investigated this? Your Logo is attached to the email and the email was received from no-reply@boards.ie. I would like to receive a response from boards.ie within the next 24 hours or I will ask the data protection commissioner to investigate it for me.

Johnboy1951 · 13-08-2019 10:16am

wally79 wrote: »

Siara19 in PM inbox since 8:27

Likewise, name and time same.

dudara · 13-08-2019 10:19am

PinkGeekette wrote: »

I would love to know how these people got my email address??? Boards.ie, have you investigated this? Your Logo is attached to the email and the email was received from no-reply@boards.ie. I would like to receive a response from boards.ie within the next 24 hours or I will ask the data protection commissioner to investigate it for me.

This has already been explained in this thread. They did not get your email address. They sent you a PM on Boards. This automatically triggered a system notification from Boards. The spammers did not directly send you an email.

To the best of our knowledge, there has been no data breach. Please see Section 7 of the Privacy Policy for details on how to raise any privacy concerns that you may have.

gifted · 13-08-2019 10:19am

I received a pm from a girl this morning...deleted it without opening the link....

A shame because I reckon it would have been magic between us...

Bigsliothar · 13-08-2019 10:19am

Sara earlier this morning !!

dudara · 13-08-2019 10:21am

Mr.Crinklewood wrote: »

Received one at 0830

Can boards temporarily deny access to PM and do a mass delete of spam?

We are working on restriction measures. We have deleted the spam PMs, but several chronjobs need to run in order for the deletion to take full effect. We have also blocked the bit.ly link. In the meantime, do not click on any links.

rostalof · 13-08-2019 10:23am

PinkGeekette wrote: »

I would love to know how these people got my email address??? Boards.ie, have you investigated this? Your Logo is attached to the email and the email was received from no-reply@boards.ie. I would like to receive a response from boards.ie within the next 24 hours or I will ask the data protection commissioner to investigate it for me.

These people don't have your email address. As explained throughout this thread, they got your username from a public forum (boards.ie) and used a fake account to send you a private message (PM).

As is always the case, on receipt of a PM, an automated notification email is sent from no-reply@boards.ie by boards.ie to your email address. If you receive email notifications for threads that you comment on, you'll see they come from the same no-reply email address. There hasn't been a data breach of any kind.

Perhaps the Admins should add a sticky to this effect at the start of this thread before the blanked out number plate brigade have a GDPR meltdown.

gctest50 · 13-08-2019 10:26am

Charge 1 euro to signup while de Emergency of 2019 is going on, donate it to SSF

Should reduce dodgy signups from bots

shamrock55 · 13-08-2019 10:26am

I'm very upset, I thought Sara was just messaging me

smuggler.ie · 13-08-2019 10:26am

PinkGeekette wrote: »

I would love to know how these people got my email address??? Boards.ie, have you investigated this? Your Logo is attached to the email and the email was received from no-reply@boards.ie. I would like to receive a response from boards.ie within the next 24 hours or I will ask the data protection commissioner to investigate it for me.

If you would be kind to read all or at least pages 1-5, you would know where you mistaking and how it works.

Kivaro · 13-08-2019 10:35am

I received it too and deleted it.
Thanks to the admins and techs for working on this.
Life is busy enough for them without having to deal with crap like this.

Would it be a good idea to put an alert/message on the boards home page or possibly on every forum to remind users not to click on links in these types of e-mails. There will always be a % of users who will click on links in these types of messages, so it might be beneficial to add an extra warning to all.

jmreire · 13-08-2019 10:36am

Just received an PM purporting to be from Boards.ie

"Message from Sareo1" giving a link ,with the boards.ie logo.

I have not opened it, so what's the best thing to do now? Delete without opening, for sure, but do I need to change my Board's password? Or any other measure's to take?

Prestonites · 13-08-2019 10:38am

What I wanna know is why anyone would set up a profile using their personal email. I set up an email years ago that I use for Social media and forums. Never compromise yourself.

smuggler.ie · 13-08-2019 10:41am

Prestonites wrote: »

What I wanna know is why anyone would set up a profile using their personal email. I set up an email years ago that I use for Social media and forums. Never compromise yourself.

But then you will never get chance to meet Sara!!!:D

Prestonites · 13-08-2019 10:42am

smuggler.ie wrote: »

But then you will never get chance to meet Sara!!!:D

F**k I'll pass tinder and coppers is out there for that

Kivaro · 13-08-2019 10:43am

Just noticed the "notice" now.
I might have ignored it initially or it recently appeared, but good job for putting it up there.
Maybe add an red exclamation mark to highlight it just in case it is treated as a regular notice and not treated with the urgency that it should be.

Boards.ie hacked?

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