thanks guys for the notice, as well as the prompt action to the situation. and just thanks to everyone else to who has made this a very helpful, and informative forum.
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Ehh Now Im going to have to change some of my passwords on a few sites, going to start using random generated passwords (Generated by me ) for every site now.
Thank you for letting the users know. I would start digging throug the logs. It might take quite some time but would make it worth-while seeing the hackers charged with criminal online activities in the long run! Don't spare your efforts as it could pay off later. Thank you one more time for letting us know and good luck!
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Sometimes that's an error generated by our app trying to log in or other web confusion.
To see if it's that or something worse, please google: my ip
And compare to that found in that sort of email.
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Further to EM's post, keep in mind that you will have a separate IP when connecting over your mobile data connection, so make sure to check that one too.
So far we have not seen any of the login error emails that cannot be explained by our own devices logging in witht he wrong password. We're more than happy to help people check their IP, however.
Wetbiker, I've edited out that IP from your post. It would appear that you are on a dyanmic IP and the one you posted is from the range of IPs your internet provider usually provides you. So nothing to worry about there.
EDIT: Sorry for the false report fellas. Looks like the it may have came from my phone. Looks like that 9 page report I was writing for school when all this happened must have fried my brain.
Evidently the last email I received after disconnecting Tapatalk was delayed and WAS from the Tapatalk app. Thanks for removing the IP address. I do appreciate it.
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Sorry it took so long to reply to this post. I checked the IP before I posted it. It wasn't mine, It came from L.A., Ca. . Thanks for the heads up though.
Is your phone from the LA area? I live in a town in northern CA but when I got my phone I lived in another town in northern CA previously. I googled the ip address in the email and it was showing the ip address was from my previous town. But then I realized it was my phone and when I changed my password on the Phandroid app I stopped getting the login failed email.
Thank you for the heads up. It's not something a website wants to admit but the respect of your users is obvious by telling everyone that to take and wait-and-see approach to hide the embarrassment. (Not that you guys did anything wrong just that fact it happened to you.)
Is your phone from the LA area? I live in a town in northern CA but when I got my phone I lived in another town in northern CA previously. I googled the ip address in the email and it was showing the ip address was from my previous town. But then I realized it was my phone and when I changed my password on the Phandroid app I stopped getting the login failed email.
I went ahead and checked again and it seems that the last email I received was because of the Tapatalk app even though I had wiped the data. The email was delayed evidently. Sooooo my dumbass posted a false report. I'm sitting here shaking my head right now because it didn't even cross my mind to check my phones IP address since I had cleared the data from Tapatalk.
Thanks for pointing that out.
I need a break! This school work is frying my brain. lol
hmmm dunno why people are posting thx tbh email account I use here is almost junk free or it was, how the hell did that happen..... and how can you guarantee it won't happen again...?
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EDIT: take it our usernames and IP address's and profiles were compromised too?? PM's maybe too ?
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Seriously considering getting the owner to delete me from the SQL DB as I'm a member of a few forums "a couple I could understand hackers having a pop at" and its the first time this has ever happen to be since the BBS days pre-forums....
Am I the only one upset at having to (again) change all my forum and email passwords? We hear about hacking attempts all the time. The time to harden the servers was when you heard of other servers being compromised.... waaay before last week.
I'm seriously hoping this was a wake-up call and you'll be more pro-active going forward.
Congrats for keeping the server up and checking for malware, but IMO, there's room for improvement.
Tell that to the FBI, they're currently trying to imprison a British Citizen for the crime of finding out if he could hack into their servers by actually doing it. If they're fallible, then there's no hope for anyone.
Responsibility for security ALWAYS lies with the user AND the provider.
Personally I was forced to set up a more clever password system after my "usual" password got hacked on eBay (no real harm done) and I still used that password for all web forums up until yesterday (since there's little real damage anyone can do by posting as me). Thankfully, I have LastPass, so I have a handy list of which forums I haven't changed the password yet. There's no way I could remember hundreds of passwords,so a system is the only possibility.
In my case I use passW0rd%X where X is the first letter of the site I'm on. It's hardly uncrackable, unlike my Wifi password which is a 52-character string, but it'll stop casual hackers.
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Seriously considering getting the owner to delete me from the SQL DB as I'm a member of a few forums "a couple I could understand hackers having a pop at" and its the first time this has ever happen to be since the BBS days pre-forums....
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I assure you this most certainly isn't the first time this has happened since the BBS days, it happens all the time. Most places never tell the users about intrusions.
In fact, I'd bet most mid-moderately successful sites don't even know it happens to them. The hackers/spiders don't leave thank you notes behind (most the time :P). You have to have some pretty keen eyes and/or software to spot the clues sometimes.
Deleting your account won't make any difference at this point. Even so, no one can do anything (at least here) with a regular user account that can't be reversed. However, if you would like your account deleted, let me know.
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I have been getting this same message all day since I changed my password and finally realized its my Phandroid that is trying to login with my old password. I updated my password on the app on my phone and it is all fixed now.
Beat me too it. It took me several hours and many, many emails from AF as I tried to figure out who was trying to hack my account from MY IP address.
Just curious. Are the passwords stored just hashed or salted as well?
I assure you this most certainly isn't the first time this has happened since the BBS days, it happens all the time. Most places never tell the users about intrusions.
In fact, I'd bet most mid-moderately successful sites don't even know it happens to them. The hackers/spiders don't leave thank you notes behind (most the time :P). You have to have some pretty keen eyes and/or software to spot the clues sometimes.
Deleting your account won't make any difference at this point. Even so, no one can do anything (at least here) with a regular user account that can't be reversed. However, if you would like your account deleted, let me know.
Why not read what I posted you reply is meaningless I said " It's the FIRST time it's happened to ME since the BBS days!"
I am fully aware this happens on other websites and forums, but none of the forums I use because security is priority number 1 As I see it not poxy banners and crap most of us will block anyway, it's either admin or the hosting company to blame, if it's the later why trust em again??
I mean come on Vbull is as good as it gets......
Also deleting my account via the DB would work if this was to happen again, as when we you leave a forum the account still lays there not deleted from the tables....
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Why not read what I posted you reply is meaningless I said " It's the FIRST time it's happened to ME since the BBS days!"
I am fully aware this happens on other websites and forums, but none of the forums I use because security is priority number 1 As I see it not poxy banners and crap most of us will block anyway, it's either admin or the hosting company to blame, if it's the later why trust em again??
I mean come on Vbull is as good as it gets......
Also deleting my account via the DB would work if this was to happen again, as when we you leave a forum the account still lays there not deleted from the tables....
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I know what you wrote - I am implying that of all the forums you apparently frequent over all these years, I'm more than willing to bet more than one of them has had a breach whether or not you or they know.
I understand how databases work and when people leave.
I also understand you're upset. Our guys found the holes, and patched them. It wasn't through vBulletin. This was unfortunately, but it happened. I think it's more common than you think. That's not to minimize the situation at all - just being realistic.
We could have done like some and NOT detected it at all, or turned the other cheek and chose not to let anyone know on the chance that nothing will come of it from here. Or waited till trouble arouse and "then" found the evidence.
We've done the best we could. I'm sorry you're unforgiving. I will be happy to remove your account if you wish. But please don't litter the thread with rash or nonconstructive replies, especially to other users who aren't addressing you at all.
I know what you wrote - I am implying that of all the forums you apparently frequent over all these years, I'm more than willing to bet more than one of them has had a breach whether or not you or they know.
I understand how databases work and when people leave.
I also understand you're upset. Our guys found the holes, and patched them. It wasn't through vBulletin. This was unfortunately, but it happened. I think it's more common than you think. That's not to minimize the situation at all - just being realistic.
We could have done like some and NOT detected it at all, or turned the other cheek and chose not to let anyone know on the chance that nothing will come of it from here. Or waited till trouble arouse and "then" found the evidence.
We've done the best we could. I'm sorry you're unforgiving. I will be happy to remove your account if you wish. But please don't litter the thread with rash or nonconstructive replies, especially to other users who aren't addressing you at all.
Thanks for understanding.
I am not "unforgiving" as you put it, just after a little reassurance that plans are inplace to minimize this happening again...
btw 3 of the said forums I am / was either or a mod or admin so fairly sure I would have known...
Generally username aren't but the passwords are. I think (if they were able to grab the DB) they may be able to gain access using the encrypted password to other site where you used the same one. It is very tricky as they would need to know your username as well as well as gain file access to that site. They shouldn't be able to decrypt the password either as that is damn near impossible assuming the site software uses a reasonable encryption methodology and the key isn't ridiculously simple.
With a good password dictionary they should be able to break the password in seconds, like happened on LinkedIn. Any site where you used the same username/password is at risk. I was surprised that this wasn't mentioned in the OP's post. If the password is broken, they would not need "file level access" to access your stuff on another site.
They are one way hashed. They are not clear text passwords, like the only way i could see what a users password was is if i got there one way hashed password and then tried every combination of characters i could think of run it through the same hasing algorithm and if the two match then i know your password. Its actually quite secure if you can throttle how fast you can try combinations of characters like we do with only allowing 5 attempts and then waiting 15 minutes, but if they have just the hash they can try many combinations very fast with a program. If you password is very random then it probably won't be found.
For instance lets say you had a password of just lower case letters and it was 8 letters long. that would be 23^8 == 78310985281 different possible passwords, that in the hackers "worse case" have to be tried and hashed, not impossible, but not trivial either. If you had upper case letters as well as lower case then 46^8 == 20047612231936 so even harder. This assumes that your password is just random letters, if you have some word or combination of words you can find in the dictionary, or a birthday, or something else common, then they could try these first and make the attack easier.
Do you salt the password to prevent dictionary attacks?
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Do you salt the password to prevent dictionary attacks?
Phases already mentioned above that they were hashed and salted. That is about the best one can do.
Android Forums has been proactive in warning people and completely transparent about the situation. I get that some people are irked over this, but given the circumstances, things were handled expediently and professionally.
I wanted to say thanks for updating the banner up top. I saw it yesterday, but honestly thought it was some sort of lame ad for me to be a sucker and click on. Today, knowing that it says all those things, made me actually take it seriously and click on it.
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Glad someone does and what your basing that on god only knows.....
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It was somewhat of a sarcastic response, as I never feel safe when someone has a possibility of compromising my account information. But at least I can feel good about the fact I secure my password where it matters and do not repeat passwords unless I don't care as much about my access. And a forum access isn't something that I really care deeply about.
Tell that to the FBI, they're currently trying to imprison a British Citizen for the crime of finding out if he could hack into their servers by actually doing it. If they're fallible, then there's no hope for anyone.
Responsibility for security ALWAYS lies with the user AND the provider.
Personally I was forced to set up a more clever password system after my "usual" password got hacked on eBay (no real harm done) and I still used that password for all web forums up until yesterday (since there's little real damage anyone can do by posting as me). Thankfully, I have LastPass, so I have a handy list of which forums I haven't changed the password yet. There's no way I could remember hundreds of passwords,so a system is the only possibility.
In my case I use passW0rd%X where X is the first letter of the site I'm on. It's hardly uncrackable, unlike my Wifi password which is a 52-character string, but it'll stop casual hackers.
Thanks to wikileaks fiasco & other things I took my account off paypal. Removed details from amazon & itunes. I think the internet is not such a safe place to keep money! Banking has extra security fields to fill (memorable info). You're right about the users responsibility. It's best not to keep a two grand mountain bike in a garden shed!
Also I check old hotmail accounts' junk mail for suspicious behaviour. Old msn contacts have cropped up (been hacked) trying to sell me stuff. Obviously not them, so when you see something like that it means change your passwords.
Just for notifying everyone that there is a potential hazard is a lot to be thankful for, as it is a lot more information than some websites would divulge.
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