If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)

Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie

Boards.ie hacked?

Oxter · 2019-08-12 07:59:34

Just received an email purporting to be from Boards.ie "Message from Sareo1" giving a link to dodgy photo and with the boards.ie logo. Only way they could have got my email is from Boards.ie. no reference to my username and no private messages in my Boards folder.

Options

Comments

Options
#182 13-08-2019 5:08pm
RoyalCelt

Registered Users Posts: 2,563 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2013

Posts: 2524

splinter65 wrote: »

I heard from Sara too

She fairly gets around the dirt hoor. I had her first though.

0
Options
#183 13-08-2019 5:08pm
bmc58

Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2014

Posts: 2806

curlex wrote: »

I also got an message from Siara19

Just delete it as spam.

0
Options
#184 13-08-2019 5:11pm
Boards.ie: Mark

Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

Boards.ie Employee

Join Date: September 2016

Posts: 4877

BandMember wrote: »

Thanks Mark. No, I couldn't access my PM's at all (by clicking on Private Messages in the user dropdown. I always enter that way, never via e-mail) but I could access that clicking on that link you sent me.

Once I got in, I deleted the Siofra PM immediately. Do I need to do anything else now or am I back to service as usual?

Deleting is the best course of action. Thanks

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

0
Options
#185 13-08-2019 5:30pm
bmc58

Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2014

Posts: 2806

Got a "Private Message" today, Hi Honey from Siraj 9 on my Boards homepage. Have I been hacked? What should I do.I did not open it.

0
Options
#186 13-08-2019 5:30pm
malinheader

Registered Users Posts: 4,978 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2013

Posts: 4914

Same here a message from Syria 1 or something with a dodgy link to supposedly photographs.

0
Advertisement
Options
#187 13-08-2019 5:31pm
malinheader

Registered Users Posts: 4,978 ✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2013

Posts: 4914

bmc58 wrote: »

Got a "Private Message" today, Hi Honey from Siraj 9 on my Boards homepage. Have I been hacked? What should I do.I did not open it.

That's exactly what I got

0
Options
#188 13-08-2019 5:42pm
Boards.ie: Mark

Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

Boards.ie Employee

Join Date: September 2016

Posts: 4877

bmc58 wrote: »

Got a "Private Message" today, Hi Honey from Siraj 9 on my Boards homepage. Have I been hacked? What should I do.I did not open it.

Best to just delete it. If you'd like more information about what's happening, please have a read of the announcement: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2058005981

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

0
Options
#189 13-08-2019 6:20pm
bmc58

Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2014

Posts: 2806

RoyalCelt wrote: »

She fairly gets around the dirt hoor. I had her first though.

Ha,ha, very good RC.

0
Options
#190 13-08-2019 6:51pm
Phileas Frog

Closed Accounts Posts: 946 ✭✭✭

Join Date: January 2019

Posts: 911

Meglamonia wrote: »

Got this message this morning.

Also got a message from Microsoft last night that my email was signed into in the Philippines.

Additionally, that my iMessage was signed into even though I haven't used an apple phone in 3 years.

Seems too much of a coincidence to me

It's a coincidence. The amount of over reacting in this thread is astonishing!

0
Options
#191 13-08-2019 9:16pm
ForestFire

Registered Users Posts: 2,274 ✭✭✭

Join Date: July 2010

Posts: 2167

Boards.ie: Mark wrote: »

Deleting is the best course of action. Thanks

Hi Mark,

I think you could solve a lot of problems, and panic on here, if you could just download the pictures for us and then post them here

Patiently awaiting your feed back

0
Advertisement
Options
#192 13-08-2019 9:21pm
Beasty

Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,559 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2009

Posts: 70574

ForestFire wrote: »

Hi Mark,

I think you could solve a lot of problems, and panic on here, if you could just download the pictures for us and then post them here

Patiently awaiting your feed back

You'll just have to get up early in the morning before we get chance to delete any overnight activity

That's assuming you're on Sara's radar - she is very choosy you know (I was getting a bit concerned myself until she wrote to me this morning)

0
Options
#193 13-08-2019 10:12pm
bobbyss

Registered Users Posts: 5,195 ✭✭✭

Join Date: March 2012

Posts: 4832

Beasty wrote: »

Site developers are on the case. At this stage they have not advised any specific actions. There have been the following accounts used overnight:

Siria9
Siora91
Siara91
Oria2

I would suggest deleting any PMs still in your inbox from any of these accounts, but hopefully even if you don't they will disappear some time soon (maybe overnight though as the amount of PMs to be dealt with may put a strain on the servers, and they might want to await a time that is quiet for the site)

How do you delete a PM?

0
Options
#194 13-08-2019 10:14pm
[Deleted User]
Posts: 0 ✭

Join Date: -

Posts: 0

I also got this PM. I just deleted it. Obviously spam

0
Options
#195 13-08-2019 10:18pm
Beasty

Administrators, Social & Fun Moderators, Sports Moderators Posts: 75,559 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2009

Posts: 70574

bobbyss wrote: »

How do you delete a PM?

Depends - on the Legacy site there's a checkbox to the right of the message and you then choose the delete option at the foot of the page

On the Touch site you have to go into the message (don't click on the links), and there's a delete option at the foot of the page

0
Options
#196 13-08-2019 10:19pm
[Deleted User]
Posts: 0 ✭

Join Date: -

Posts: 0

I also got this PM. I just deleted it. Obviously spam

0
Options
#197 14-08-2019 9:38am
Boards.ie: Mark

Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

Boards.ie Employee

Join Date: September 2016

Posts: 4877

ForestFire wrote: »

Hi Mark,

I think you could solve a lot of problems, and panic on here, if you could just download the pictures for us and then post them here

Patiently awaiting your feed back

There are better pictures on the internet

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

0
Options
#198 14-08-2019 5:49pm
bmc58

Registered Users Posts: 2,813 ✭✭✭

Join Date: May 2014

Posts: 2806

Beasty wrote: »

Site developers are on the case. At this stage they have not advised any specific actions. There have been the following accounts used overnight:

Siria9
Siora91
Siara91
Oria2

I would suggest deleting any PMs still in your inbox from any of these accounts, but hopefully even if you don't they will disappear some time soon (maybe overnight though as the amount of PMs to be dealt with may put a strain on the servers, and they might want to await a time that is quiet for the site)

My PM message box has been nuked.I wanted to keep one or two of them but they all have been zapped.

0
Options
#199 14-08-2019 6:58pm
wally79

Registered Users Posts: 2,933 ✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2009

Posts: 2881

bmc58 wrote: »

My PM message box has been nuked.I wanted to keep one or two of them but they all have been zapped.

So you’re Sarah

0
Options
#200 15-08-2019 2:08pm
branie2

Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2014

Posts: 10178

I got the message as well, but it's gone now.

0
Options
#201 15-08-2019 2:09pm
hank scorpio89

Registered Users Posts: 159 ✭✭

Join Date: November 2010

Posts: 140

I got it but its gone now..but i still have a red notification.my ocd is in overdrive!

0
Advertisement
Options
#202 15-08-2019 8:25pm
Alpha_zero

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2014

Posts: 884

There was a data breach all your accounts are compromised.

0
Options
#203 15-08-2019 8:27pm
branie2

Registered Users Posts: 10,295 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: September 2014

Posts: 10178

I didn't play into her hands

0
Options
#204 15-08-2019 8:28pm
smuggler.ie

Registered Users Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2015

Posts: 4037

Alpha_zero wrote: »

There was a data breach all your accounts are compromised.

Dear Admins, could you please, once again, confirm/deny this please. Please
FFS Sorry, FGS

0
Options
#205 15-08-2019 8:30pm
Alpha_zero

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2014

Posts: 884

smuggler.ie wrote: »

Dear Admins, could you please, once again, confirm/deny this please. Please
FFS

Bro they will deny it.

0
Options
#206 15-08-2019 8:31pm
smuggler.ie

Registered Users Posts: 4,087 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2015

Posts: 4037

Alpha_zero wrote: »

Bro they will deny it.

Sure. Whatever you say

0
Options
#207 15-08-2019 8:37pm
Alpha_zero

Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 907 ✭✭✭

Join Date: April 2014

Posts: 884

smuggler.ie wrote: »

Sure. Whatever you say

Bro did you use your personal email, if so i you should be worried

0
Options
#208 16-08-2019 9:47am
Boards.ie: Mark

Boards.ie Employee Posts: 5,461 ✭✭✭✭✭

Boards.ie Employee

Join Date: September 2016

Posts: 4877

As per our announcement on this issue, there was no data breach.

How can I? User's guide to some features on the new site

0
Options
#209 16-08-2019 5:05pm
Patser

Registered Users Posts: 7,935 ✭✭✭

Join Date: October 2008

Posts: 7837

Mark, can you use your Admin powers to confirm, once and for all, which one of she really was interested in?

0
Options
#210 17-08-2019 11:18am
Hotblack Desiato

Registered Users Posts: 34,060 ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: February 2005

Posts: 32756

Stop moaning ffs wrote: »

Got the same email and an email from google asking am I logging in from a different location ?

State of her.

Poor effort comrades, 2/10.

Fingal County Council are certainly not competent to be making decisions about the most important piece of infrastructure on the island. They need to stick to badly designed cycle lanes and deciding on whether Mrs Murphy can have her kitchen extension.

0
Advertisement
Options
#211 17-08-2019 2:01pm
KoolKid

Moderators, Home & Garden Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 24,789 Mod ✭✭✭✭

Join Date: August 2006

Posts: 24128

It has been confirmed numerous times by Admins there was no data breach.
Enough said.

0

This discussion has been closed.