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[archcommus]

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
I keep getting logged out.

Ditto, my cookie expired overnight.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
I keep getting logged out.

Ditto, my cookie expired overnight.

Yup, 2nd time for me.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: The Green Bean
I keep getting logged out.

Ditto, my cookie expired overnight.

happened to me too

 

[jyates]

I wonder whose PM's I answered this morning with "I don't have a flip phone for sale!" ?

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: GuideBot
WHAT personal information? Check your profile. Nobody can steal your identity from the (lack of) information there. Also, your password is hidden, but that won't stop someone from changing the profile or password.

The answer to your secret question isn't hidden. And since you cannot pick a custom secret question, odds are fairly high that the question and answer are the same for the AT board as well as other things of yours.

And what about PMs? You could have a bunch of addresses (including your own) from doing for sale/trade transactions here. You dont always want to go and delete all those PMs, especially if you are in the middle of a sale.

 

[Smartazz]

Is everything back to normal?

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Jason Clark was online last night for a long time, so I supposed they were fixing the exploit that the douche Loke used, so when I had to login this morning I figured they did something, I was surprised to see this also. As it just started happening as I left for the night as the forums became really slow so I figured they were doing something to the database. If you guys added Jason Clark to your buddy list you can see when he is on, and maybe in this situation you would have figured out that it wasn't a hack, just an update gone wrong I guess.

Looks more like hack to me. Somebody loged in as "AnandTech Sodomator" yesterday. The thread was promptly deleted.

creating a new username does not mean hacking. Jason Clark is in right now probably doing stuff, hence why we keep getting logged back out. I really doubt it was a hack, due to the fact the problem had to do with cookies and the exploit that they are trying to fix also involves cookies.


EDIT: Anand himself has also been on more in the past few days then I have seen him in 4 months.

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor

Originally posted by: Number1

Originally posted by: F22 Raptor
Jason Clark was online last night for a long time, so I supposed they were fixing the exploit that the douche Loke used, so when I had to login this morning I figured they did something, I was surprised to see this also. As it just started happening as I left for the night as the forums became really slow so I figured they were doing something to the database. If you guys added Jason Clark to your buddy list you can see when he is on, and maybe in this situation you would have figured out that it wasn't a hack, just an update gone wrong I guess.

Looks more like hack to me. Somebody loged in as "AnandTech Sodomator" yesterday. The thread was promptly deleted.

creating a new username does not mean hacking. Jason Clark is in right now probably doing stuff, hence why we keep getting logged back out. I really doubt it was a hack, due to the fact the problem had to do with cookies and the exploit that they are trying to fix also involves cookies.


EDIT: Anand himself has also been on more in the past few days then I have seen him in 4 months.

Who is Jason Clark?

 

[iamme]

Originally posted by: sleepdragon
Why is there no official respond from the mods regarding what exactly happened?
Are our account/password/personel information in danger of been leaked?

i do hope there is some official announcement explaining what the heck happened.....

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: iamme

Originally posted by: sleepdragon
Why is there no official respond from the mods regarding what exactly happened?
Are our account/password/personel information in danger of been leaked?

i do hope there is some official announcement explaining what the heck happened.....

don't count on it.

 

[Bryank930]

this post is for dangtx.he tried to reset pass but the system told him that was already done,no email yet 2 days later.

 

[pkme2]

Just weird. I had someone else's profile on screen. Logged out and logged back in, everything was back to normal.

Oh well, AT has it in hand.

 

[Devistater]

Originally posted by: pkme2

Just weird. I had someone else's profile on screen. Logged out and logged back in, everything was back to normal.

Oh well, AT has it in hand.

I fail to see how they have it in hand. They didn't do anything besides expire the cookies a while AFTER the fact of everyone having access to another persons profile and any private information therein.

And I'm also dissapointed that they never really made any statements about the problem either (aside from telling people to log off/on).