LadyMilla Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 A good practice is: - sign up for a free e-mail account at Yahoo.co.uk (not sure about yahoo.com, they might offer the same service) - create a main email address that you don't use anywhere (reserved for logging in to Yahoo's mail service) - Go to Options and create disposable e-mail addresses (e.g. if you want to sign up to nexus, create a disposable email address like "[email protected]"). The benefit is... if you start receiving spam, simply by looking at the recipient in the message you will figure out which website that you have signed up to has been compromised. Also, you can simply create a new site-specific email address and then delete the compromised one (after going through the email address change procedure at the site in question). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pushkatu Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 I used to be a regular there a couple of years ago. I rarely/never visit the site anymore. It's sad to see that hackers find it funny to hack video games related sites, it's just not cool. I'll go ahead and change my password just in case. Thanks for the info. Cheers and beers, Pushkatu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexScorpion Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Precicely how is stealing account info going to force Beth to speed up the release of Skyrim? If anything it could slow it down because they have to pull developers off of Skyrim to fight the feces storm caused by these idiots Actually, that's very unlikely. Reassigning GAME developers to something that can be and should be fixed by WEB developers and WEB security experts would be a plain stupid move. It seems hackers launched a worldwide campaign against various gaming companies: first it was Sony Online Entertainment, then Codemasters (I received a mail message from them a week ago, saying that due to hackers obtaining certain personal information they shut down several websites related to their games), now it's Bethsoft... The only positive side effect that I can think about is that companies will pay more attention to securing their websites in the future.i'm sorry it was to funny not to quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ub3rman123 Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 Although fighting hacking attempts costs money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urbex Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 They're just script kiddies that use known sql exploits on sites that are too lazy to update their security. They have nothing to do with the initial PSN hack. And just for the record, anonymous is nothing more than a scapegoat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XJDHDR Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 A good practice is:- sign up for a free e-mail account at Yahoo.co.uk (not sure about yahoo.com, they might offer the same service)- create a main email address that you don't use anywhere (reserved for logging in to Yahoo's mail service)- Go to Options and create disposable e-mail addresses (e.g. if you want to sign up to nexus, create a disposable email address like "[email protected]"). The benefit is... if you start receiving spam, simply by looking at the recipient in the message you will figure out which website that you have signed up to has been compromised. Also, you can simply create a new site-specific email address and then delete the compromised one (after going through the email address change procedure at the site in question).I recently discovered that you can do something similar in Gmail as well. Basically, you can add a + sign followed by a string between your Gmail user name and the @ symbol (eg, my TESNexus profile uses <my Gmail user name>[email protected] as the email address). When an email is sent to that address, it will still arrive in your inbox but it's "To" line will contain the address that was originally used. You can then create filters that can forward the emails elsewhere, move them to a different folder or even delete them based on a search of the "To" line. In my case, this means that anyone that acquires my TESNexus email address and doesn't know about this trick will send it to <my name>[email protected] . At that point, I would simply change the address under my options to something else then tell Gmail to delete anything that is sent to the [email protected] address Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scot Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 (edited) They attacked 3 more gaming sites.(http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/06/14/minecraft-survives-hacker-attack-eve-online-the-escapist-still-down.aspx) I´m really afraid that they find out about nexus and do some nonsense since it seems to be their area of expertise. Edited June 14, 2011 by scot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted1744345User Posted June 14, 2011 Share Posted June 14, 2011 It's a good thing I never had an account on the Bethesda forums; I never saw a need for one. Thanks for the heads up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regi8401 Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 I may be wrong but... I think it might be some kind of boycott against releasing The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim in November 2011. You know, it will have been only one month and one year since New Vegas has been released... Then again, the games aren't being developed by the same people. Maybe that's not the case and it's just some idiot hacking popular sites for the lulz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regi8401 Posted June 15, 2011 Share Posted June 15, 2011 (edited) Notice they're all gaming sites/networks that are being hacked lately? ...Who will be next? Edited June 15, 2011 by regi8401 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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