Ulath92 Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 If you are able to you should mess around with him now you have his IP. If not, you should hand it over to 'lovely' people at 4chan. I'm sure they would love to help out and create some havoc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadMansFist849 Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 No, that would make us no better than him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted1744345User Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 I only got one spam email and that is why I'm not making too big of a deal from this. I could see where others are coming from when they are receiving tons of spam, but punishment is best left to the authorities. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legoless1 Posted December 27, 2010 Share Posted December 27, 2010 I was wondering why I was getting so many viagra emails. They are, of course, no match for the spam protection of Gmail. Glad to hear this has been sorted out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
setiweb Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Dear addons.mozilla.org user, The purpose of this email is to notify you about a possible disclosureof your information which occurred on December 17th. On this date, wewere informed by a 3rd party who discovered a file with individual userrecords on a public portion of one of our servers. We immediately tookthe file off the server and investigated all downloads. We haveidentified all the downloads and with the exception of the 3rd party,who reported this issue, the file has been download by only Mozillastaff. This file was placed on this server by mistake and was a partialrepresentation of the users database from addons.mozilla.org. The fileincluded email addresses, first and last names, and an md5 hashrepresentation of your password. The reason we are disclosing this eventis because we have removed your existing password from the addons siteand are asking you to reset it by going back to the addons site andclicking forgot password. We are also asking you to change your passwordon other sites in which you use the same password. Since we haveeffectively erased your password, you don't need to do anything if youdo not want to use your account. It is disabled until you perform thepassword recovery. We have identified the process which allowed this file to be postedpublicly and have taken steps to prevent this in the future. We are alsoevaluating other processes to ensure your information is safe and secure. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact theinfrastructure security team directly at [email protected]. If youare having issues resetting your account, please contact[email protected]. We apologize for any inconvenience this has caused. Chris LyonDirector of Infrastructure Security Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoryKing Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Dox please Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hashime72 Posted December 28, 2010 Share Posted December 28, 2010 Great, this is why my mail accounts are full of spam. I managed to keep the one spam free for 5 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KMA Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 It is good to hear he did not bother to put some pressure on the forum server. So far I have only received one piece of Spam from this, and it was of the blatant type that is easy to recognize and box. I would estimate his ago to be 13-15 based on these facts (gave up early, and lewd spam), so I would just contact his parents. If you do a little mining of social/school sites you could probably get all his details. Then just contact his parents and let them know that they are legally responsible for his actions, and that if this were taken to the FBI it would mean federal charges (against them as his legal guardians). Then politely ask them to make sure their son (presumably) behaves in the future, so you can forget about reporting this to anyone unless there is a repeat. If this is not in the US then you have less ability unless you want to press charges. If it originated in Canada, I can help you out if you need it (PM me). Cheers, 4Aces Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deceded Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 **SNIP**, thats the 7th website I see reports of hackage in their forums between dec. 9th and dec. 16th!as well as reports of sites major websites misworking in the same period, such as Delta airlines website, and American airlines too EDIT by LHammonds: Watch the language please. And yes, there are more hacks around the holidays because of more commerce happening around that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balagor Posted December 29, 2010 Share Posted December 29, 2010 With all theese complaints about spam, the little kid thinks he´s close to an medal of honour (since he probably reads all this). Let me take that away from him when I speak on behalf of hundreds of thousands of silent members who never recieved one tiny little e-mail that did not belong in the mail box. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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