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CHANGE YOUR PASSWORDS!

Should you be a member of MINI2 or one of the 100's of sites owned by Vertical Scope, welp, they've been hacked.

Basically, if you are any other car, pet or sports forum look at the footer, see if it is part of AutoGuide.com. Motorcycle.com, PetGuide.com, ATV.com, Tractor.com, The Truth about Cars or any of the other sites found here http://www.verticalscope.com/ Change your passwords!

Disclosure: I've done freelance work for VerticalScope in the past.

 

Nathan.

Do you recommend that we change allpasswords? It has been an age since I logged onto MINI2, I can't remember my bloody password!!!

 

In this case you probably had a unique PW for that site. If so, then don't worry about it. Being most people use the same PW across all sites, not a good idea BTW, then grabbing a PW from one site means they can get to others.

Now what they glean from you M/A account is pretty much nothing but a PW and IP info. No Credit Card or PayPal info has been stored on the M/A server. Nor has contact info you've not freely provided in a post or PM has ever been stored on the M/A server.

 

You will know if my account is hacked on M\A because the hacker will post nice stuff about the F56. :devil::lol:

 

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Best advice I ever got for passwords is to have an easy to remember part.....like a special day, phrase, something like "741776" (July 4 1776) and then append to the end a unique to the site addition. Like this 741776M/A......that way you have a unique password for all of your sites that is easy to remember.

 

Now that we now how to get into Scott's account, what should we say?

 

I just use PASSWORD for everything.

I can't be arsed to remember a different password for every website! rrr:

 

A good password is : IF0rg3t!

I have used it before and when I used to reset peoples password that was my default I would send them. :ihih::lol:

 

How do I stop the pop-up ads from covering links on the page?
Sometimes, there is an ‘X’ to close the ad, other times, there’s not.
Trying to get to the User CP to change my password.
Only seems to happen there and not within the 'regular' forums...

 

There are no pop up ads from M/A.

Scan your computer with Malwarebytes and Spybot.

 

I'll try to capture a screenshot for you... looks sortta like the ads on some sites that pop-up when you hover over certain highlighted words...

 

My password got hacked and now I have to go thru the trouble of changing my kids birthday and my dogs name.

 

If I start making forums my entire life again, I've been hacked.. [emoji12]

I do still check in on everyone, but for once I want to get out and off the screen for fun. [emoji2] I'm doing great though, things are looking up.



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