Site been hacked?

[Sir-Fritz]

So i just got some email from costello (who i now know his real name

) saying gbatemp has been hacked and my pass was stolen. How did this happen and do we get compensation

? Also more importantly did this happen or is this some sick hoax

 

[Dark Blade]

You guys are lucky then, though you might want to change just incase......glad i was awake this late to notice the PM, was just about to log off for the night too

Hmm you're right-better safe than sorry..

 

[granville]

No Christmas presents for Costello this year!

(j/k, i don't blame him. I wonder who did this though.)

 

[dgwillia]

No Christmas presents for Costello this year!

(j/k, i don't blame him. I wonder who did this though.)

Yeah, im wondering the same >_>, some people just have no lives AT ALL. Me being the paranoid guy that i am, i went and changed every single password of importance to something not even remotely close to what they were before. Thank goodness for paper, or i might forget them all.

 

[prowler]

Changed my password just in case

 

[dgwillia]

I must have easily hit that button 10+ times in less than a minute. Saw the words "Hacked" and "Your Information" all in the same sentence and nearly had a panic attack.

Im just glad the site mods handled things quickly

, i feel safer now, though, just incase the hackers try something here again, i changed this accounts info into the randomest possible thing i could think of

 

[NeSchn]

Thats shitty, I just got the message saying my account was one of the ones hacked. I changed my Password. Good thing I rarely use that password for anything anymore, only sites that are unimportant. I guess I won't be using it anymore though.

 

[The Catboy]

I didn't get an email, but I changed my password anyways. Mainly because I thought I was one who was hacked

 

[dgwillia]

I just wonder how they picked ours though >_>, i wasnt even online.

 

[prowler]

Must be the only ones they can get for now.

 

[ZeWarrior]

Didn't get an email nor a PM, but I'm changing my simple password anyway.

 

[Deleted member 35947]

Thankfully I didn't get an email either. Still doesn't stop me from being all paranoid.

 

[Blue-K]

WTF? Mine was one of them

? Sh*t...now I have to travel around the Internet and change the passwords on the sites which used this...and these are some sites...

Right now, I'm damm pissed off...I'll have to rethink my password strategy again...

 

[Wiisel]

They picked me

did i win anything? o'well it happens

Edit:
I'm more pissed about my sig vanishing

 

[Jakob95]

No Christmas presents for Costello this year!

(j/k, i don't blame him. I wonder who did this though.)

I see you got hacked as well. In your PM the one Costello sent you it says all the people who got hacked. Seems that the people who have 200 posts or more that got hacked.

ALSO GOT HACKED!!...

 

[BiscuitBee]

Thankfully I didn't get an email either. Still doesn't stop me from being all paranoid.

When in doubt, change it

Might I also suggest a wonderful little open-source program called KeePass?

EDIT: Oh, the smileys have Christmat hats!

 

[playallday]

if you didn't receive an email and/or a PM, you were not impacted by this.
only a tiny percentage of members were impacted thankfully.

Ah shit, I hate being unlucky. What's the point of changing the password if he can just do it again?

 

[MegaAce™]

I didn't get a PM or an email, so I'm unaffected right?

 

[Hadrian]

I didn't get a PM or an email, so I'm unaffected right?

That is the gist of it.

 

[playallday]

So were the users picked at random, or was it the cool dudes only?

 

[p1ngpong]

if you didn't receive an email and/or a PM, you were not impacted by this.
only a tiny percentage of members were impacted thankfully.

Ah shit, I hate being unlucky. What's the point of changing the password if he can just do it again?

Costello knows what happened, just change your pass. Unless you want to keep a compromised one.