Potential Database Breach

[Badger1967]

Thank you, I appreciate the transparency. And thanks for all the great work.

[Eolath]

Perhaps it would be a good idea to tell us which mods had a .dll loaded into them yesterday.

 

As for password/email changes, I'll wait until we have more information, any attempt to do that right now would be useless if Nexus is indeed breached.

Edited December 6, 2015 by Eolath

[katleigh93]

In response to post #31560095.

Eolath wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to tell us which mods had a .dll loaded into them yesterday.

As for password/email changes, I'll wait until we have more information, any attempt to do that right now would be useless if Nexus is indeed breached.

I agree with not changing the email, but a password change as described by Dark0ne for those who didnt use "special characters" is not a bad idea, it will slow the hackers down. It may not stop them, but it will give them a headache trying to hack them.

[sejobas]

Its heartening to see this kind of transparancy in your efforts! Keep it up!

[Eolath]

In response to post #31560095. #31560240 is also a reply to the same post.

Eolath wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to tell us which mods had a .dll loaded into them yesterday.

As for password/email changes, I'll wait until we have more information, any attempt to do that right now would be useless if Nexus is indeed breached.

katleigh93 wrote: I agree with not changing the email, but a password change as described by Dark0ne for those who didnt use "special characters" is not a bad idea, it will slow the hackers down. It may not stop them, but it will give them a headache trying to hack them.

Of course, in that case it wouldn't be a bad idea to change the password.

In general however I'd be more worried about other websites that someone might use the same password on. Just presume they got into our accounts on the Nexus and that they have the capability to continue doing so, even after a password change. Edited December 6, 2015 by Eolath

[Halliphax2]

The outsatanding service you provide modders and mod downloaders alike as well as the transparency and informative attitude you adopt eclipses any broken trust that could ever even arise.

 

Keep up the good work

[katleigh93]

In response to post #31560095. #31560240, #31560385 are all replies on the same post.

Eolath wrote: Perhaps it would be a good idea to tell us which mods had a .dll loaded into them yesterday.

As for password/email changes, I'll wait until we have more information, any attempt to do that right now would be useless if Nexus is indeed breached.

katleigh93 wrote: I agree with not changing the email, but a password change as described by Dark0ne for those who didnt use "special characters" is not a bad idea, it will slow the hackers down. It may not stop them, but it will give them a headache trying to hack them.

Eolath wrote: Of course, in that case it wouldn't be a bad idea to change the password.

In general however I'd be more worried about other websites that someone might use the same password on. Just presume they got into our accounts on the Nexus and that they have the capability to continue doing so, even after a password change.

Thats true Eolath, you can try and try to tell people not to use the same password for all accounts, but that doesnt always work. I have the luxuary of being at home, so I keep a log of all my passwords and I change them at least once a month. But even then, if hackers get into the sites data base, with the proper programs and equipment, no one is 100% safe. Its just part of being in the technical age we live in.

[mokaiba]

im not worried about anyone getting into my email since I dont even know my email password. I have it written down because its just a bunch of randomness. eg, SJDHF&yhfsdhgf&*^#&*$TGFg375r2hdehfbghus <- like that lol

[katleigh93]

In response to post #31561115.

mokaiba wrote: im not worried about anyone getting into my email since I dont even know my email password. I have it written down because its just a bunch of randomness. eg, SJDHF&yhfsdhgf&*^#&*$TGFg375r2hdehfbghus <- like that lol

Hehehehe, thats the best kind to have mokaiba :D

[umiluv]

In response to post #31559215.

sydney666 wrote: I love your site, and what you do for the community Dark0ne.

I have been installing well over 5-6gb of mods in the last week, and I noticed something odd when I installed a mod via NMM. My UAC said something was being installed and I, being tired just clicked on yes. Unfortunately I had installed about 10-15 mods and have no idea which mod caused the issue.

When I checked to see "what" was installed, it said it was Synaptics Pointing Device Driver. I googled it and it is something to do with the laptop mouse pad "thingy". I am on a pc and don't have this device at all. So I tried to uninstall it via Control Panel and it stated that the system could not uninstall the program because it was not installed. I ran a virus scan with Avast, used TDSkiller, Malwarebytes, ESET online scanner and many others and nothing was found.

Since this program installed, I get delays when typing in web browsers and oddly enough I have even lost 10-15 fps when using mods that alter the fallout 4 exe such as post processing mods using Reshade. Prior to this issue, I had no issues at all downloading any files or with any fps lags, even with the same presets using this method.

I am concerned that maybe one of the reshade template/preset mods may have had a virus "dll" in it, possibly a keylogger. The dll file is synlSDLL.dll

If you need more info, feel free to contact me.

I'm sorry to hear that happen. Good luck to you on getting it off your system. And thank you for your story to help others.