Just got security alert - data just stolen from this website

[lencap]

I signed into my forum account a short time ago, entered my password and scanned a few articles intending to post.

I got a security alert from my personal security monitoring service letting me know that my password and perhaps other information was just stolen from this website.

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[JRell]

Are you sure it was from this website?

[KathleenL]

Originally Posted by JRell

Are you sure it was from this website?

I'll ask the same thing. I didn't get any such alert when I logged in a few minutes ago.

Although, I will say that since I first joined here, I've stayed logged in and haven't had any issues with that until yesterday, when I clicked on my bookmark to come here and surprisingly wasn't logged in. Then, I apparently couldn't recall my password, so I had to reset it. And today I had to log in again, even though I had checkmarked the "remember me" box. But, no warnings about data having been stolen.

[Rolexforthewin]

I received a fraudulent email from someone asking me to provide feedback on a seller in the group. They stated they were given to references and I was one of them. Trying to prompt me to click a link. This was sent to me in a DM within this forum.

[PenDelicate]

That sounds suspect that any software can know your, "password was just stolen from this website."

Site-owners can (but not always do) know when their security is breached and files-downloaded by suspicious users. For your third-party software to have access to that information, it would have to monitor all traffic from the target website, decrypt it, parse all downloads, identify your unique hashed-password stored on the server as being part of the download, and be able to identify that the downloader was a malicious intruder.

What "personal security monitoring service" do you use? Because it's truly impressive ...

[Krash]

Originally Posted by PenDelicate

What "personal security monitoring service" do you use? Because it's truly impressive ...

I’d like to know, too. What the OP is describing as “personal security monitoring” sounds more like a virus or some sort of phishing attack.


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[kenofpace]

Not sure which service OP is using but I use MyIDcare and IdentityForce. MyIDCare was provided free of charge from the government when they had that big dataspill years ago. IdentityForce was recently provided by Ticketmaster when they got hacked. Both do a good job of monitoring the web for my private info.

[brandrea]

I’m not sure what the OP is referring to.

If anything is funky with your account, you should report it to the moderators

[ArtNouveau]

I usually browse this forum on Chrome via an Ipad. Last week I got a couple of screens with weird error messages, a refresh brought everything back to normal. I didn’t think much of it, random interweb stuff.

[lencap]

I've checked again with GEICO ID Protection and they confirm that there was indeed a recorded attempt to gather my ID, password and other personal information on September 12 shortly after visiting this website.

[0nly5iv3Digits]

2FA is a MUST! As long as you don't sync your authenticator with the cloud-computing network or anything stupid like that, you'll always be fine.