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Post Post #25 (ISO) » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:15 pm

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In post 22, Majiffy wrote:
In post 19, Zachrulez wrote:You'd be surprised how often people forget to do the simple things.
Yeah but...

That's like a recording engineer going to track a band and forgetting to plug in the microphone.

Some things you just do out of habit.
That's true of a highly skilled, high profile hacker. A site like this is more likely to attract the kind of hacker that runs a program that's written by someone else, possibly to try exploit a known vulnerability that they don't know how to exploit but someone else has.
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Post Post #26 (ISO) » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:52 pm

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Ehhh mafia trends towards attracting more folk on the upper end of the bell-curve. I wouldn't be entirely surprised if - even if they are a script kiddie - they wouldn't overlook covering their tracks.
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Post Post #27 (ISO) » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:53 pm

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Nevermind that double-negative sentence, you! It simply does not sound as good any other way.
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Post Post #28 (ISO) » Tue Nov 01, 2016 6:59 pm

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Post Post #29 (ISO) » Tue Nov 01, 2016 10:21 pm

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I'm sure if they can trace it they will.

You are both right in the sense that mafia is a game that appeals to nerds and in this specific instance hackers in general, so the odds are pretty high that there are good ones in the player pool, but also that you probably don't need to be a genius hacker to crack mafiascum if you really want to focus on doing something so lame.

You could think of implementing a 2-step verification process if this is a recurrent problem.
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Post Post #30 (ISO) » Tue Nov 01, 2016 11:27 pm

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In post 29, copper223 wrote:...
You could think of implementing a 2-step verification process if this is a recurrent problem.
I second that, but please make it optional.
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Post Post #31 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:40 am

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Any head on motive or identity?

Also, newb here. Hi!
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Post Post #32 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 1:56 am

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Just as a note Mith, the email sent out with this in it got chucked into the Spam folder.
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Post Post #33 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:31 am

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Post Post #34 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:59 am

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I don't think it's a shotty setup. Shotty didn't seem motivated or bright enough to do this.
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Post Post #35 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:07 am

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In post 32, JasonWazza wrote:Just as a note Mith, the email sent out with this in it got chucked into the Spam folder.
To add to this, some users may not have received the email at all. I haven't received any notifications since the crash, and I'm starting to suspect that the emails are being blocked if it's not something on mafiascum.net's end.
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Post Post #36 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 4:26 am

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I'd say not recieving notifications is probably on the Mafiascum end given what i can tell of the issue.

The email i am talking about is the one that has this topic in the message, and according to google "Why is this message in Spam? It contains content that's typically used in spam messages."
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Post Post #37 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:05 am

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In post 10, Majiffy wrote:Were they able to access information such as PayPal account information or no? I would assume not but would be good to have an official answer regarding that.
Unless you sent account information (password and/or security questions) in a private message (which you shouldn't have been doing), you should be fine. All they would have been able to get from communication re: cards would be transaction IDs. I'm more concerned about addresses being exposed.

Still, it's good practice to change your passwords periodically (and more frequently the more critical the information/access is).
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Post Post #38 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:07 am

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bahaha i changed my email to a fake a while ago

are old ones stored?

shit actually they have my address i'm bout to get butt violated
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Post Post #39 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:19 am

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In post 31, September Storm wrote:Any head on motive or identity?

Also, newb here. Hi!
If this was a mafia game I'd be voting this post so hard.
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Post Post #40 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 5:23 am

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In post 37, mith wrote:
In post 10, Majiffy wrote:Were they able to access information such as PayPal account information or no? I would assume not but would be good to have an official answer regarding that.
Unless you sent account information (password and/or security questions) in a private message (which you shouldn't have been doing), you should be fine. All they would have been able to get from communication re: cards would be transaction IDs. I'm more concerned about addresses being exposed.

Still, it's good practice to change your passwords periodically (and more frequently the more critical the information/access is).
Good to know, thanks.
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Post Post #41 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 6:00 am

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In post 38, inte wrote:are old ones stored?
yes
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Post Post #42 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 6:43 am

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In post 39, Papa Zito wrote:
In post 31, September Storm wrote:Any head on motive or identity?

Also, newb here. Hi!
If this was a mafia game I'd be voting this post so hard.
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Post Post #43 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 6:57 am

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Post Post #44 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 7:56 am

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Mine went to spam too.

So those who did not get them, check your spam folders.
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Post Post #45 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:10 am

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I didn't get them either and I don't have a spam folder so they can't have gone there. My profile is set to allow admin but not other users to send email so I wonder if that affected it? Although I assume they were sent from an admin account.
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Post Post #46 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:10 am

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I could never figure out how to only get e-mail notifications for things I wanted so everything I get from MS goes into my spam folder.
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Post Post #47 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 11:10 am

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I got two, both did not go to th' spam folder.
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Post Post #48 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 3:56 pm

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In post 39, Papa Zito wrote:
In post 31, September Storm wrote:Any head on motive or identity?

Also, newb here. Hi!
If this was a mafia game I'd be voting this post so hard.
Was about to say I found the hacker but you beat me to it
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Post Post #49 (ISO) » Wed Nov 02, 2016 8:36 pm

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Hi I'm Senator McCarthy and here's a list of scummers that are probably the hacker
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