has eqtraders been hacked (email attached)

[thugrok]

I got it too, but wow ****ed if I ever remember registering for these boards, lol guess I did, I spend alot of time checking stuff on this site though but never even browse the boards.

[etofso]

yet another "me 2" reply

Got it today, ignored it too. Replying to show when the last time I posted was - I'm a daily user of the Recipes section of the site, but I rarely post, so whoever suggested that the target of the emails were older, more inactive users may have something there...

[farsente]

I got it to but I didn't join forums till after about 4 years of using the site.

[Kaotix]

email

i got it too, n i was like OMG wtf! n the first thing i thought was i have to get on eq n make some pots lol. glad it was a fake message.

[Kaotix]

oh yeah and i just joined in nov 2007. so im not sure if they were just trying to get older users back together or not, but i dont think i would have been involved in the grand scheme of things!

[Craftylady]

Hacked

I got one too. My join date is much newer. Strange

[omarahtopaz]

Re

Seems more like a Farce to drive more ppl out of eq. People that are fairly new to the site might be wtf? but not really pay attention to anything other than the Text and totaly ignore the link.

As far as joining theories give it up this is post 5 on here and only been here 2wks tops.

Thanks again for the help Ngreth i finally got Tailoring to 300 anyhow after 500kp later lol.

Although one thing we could do I know wow sucks but Dang that Make all button on their Tradeskill Ui is the bomb soooooo much better than click click click other than that the game totally sucks =)

[Tiroon]

Hmm didn't get the mail and would feel left out if not for the nice mail informing me that I May Have Already Won $ 10,000,000 in the Sweepstake.

[Jubie]

I have recived this also, knew it was not from EQtraders so deleted it. Been a board member for about 1 month.

[Dawnlin]

Pie please!

I received the email as well. I've been in EQ2 for the last few years, and I was pretty sure Denmum hadn't sent that, so I just kept checking back in here figuring we'd see an update.

In case it helps, here are the full headers:

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From admin@mboards.eqtraders.com Thu Apr 10 18:55:57 2008
X-Apparently-To: **ME** via 66.196.97.58; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 18:56:03 -0700
X-Originating-IP: [64.202.189.90]
Return-Path: <mboardse@h30001.racknine.com>
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To: **ME**
Subject: TRADESKILLS ARE BEING DISCONTINUED
From: "admin@mboards.eqtraders.com" <admin@mboards.eqtraders.com> Add Mobile Alert
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[Bidaum]

I got this email as well; not happy with hackers.

[thipsycho]

i did get one email too

[Crabbit]

well this is nice maybe it will spawn a comeback tour for Eq Ive played just about every mmorpg out there but i still have a yearning to play Eq.Let's all bring Eq back to its days of Glory, where Mgbs happen every 15 min. 8)

[Arrelar]

changing passwords

sucky, hate people messing with sites
evil evil.

in response to changing all your passwords though... i assume the forum software doesn't store passwords in plain text, and so anyone with access shouldnt be able to reverse the hash? can you guys confirm?

hope it's all fixed now!

[KyrosKrane]

They don't have direct access to your password, but what they do is take a really long list of common passwords and encode each one in the same way your actual password is saved, then they compare each encoded word to your password. If they find a match, then they have your password. This is called a dictionary attack, because the first versions of it literally used a dictionary in the hope of catching people who used simple words as their password.