Bogus "account hacked" message

[alan at alanlee.org]

There is a special place in hell for spammers.  There is an even more 
special place lower in hell for web site builders that store plain-text 
passwords rather than a one-way salted hash of a password.  You know, 
the least a site can do for my password is use mid 1970s state of the 
art technology.  Some of the passwords given in these fishing emails, 
while unique and uncompromising, reveal the site I've used them on that 
was hacked.  Like Monster.com.  Every site is not immune from attacks 
and eventually compromise.  I can live with that.  I just hope there are 
no more that have !!!! USER'S PLAIN TEXT PASSWORD ----> HERE <---- !!!! 
in the middle of the breached data.

-Alan


On 2019-01-08 15:31, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> On 1/8/19 12:20 PM, Kevin Lee via cctalk wrote:
>> Delete it don’t respond and ignore it.. been getting them too.. change 
>> your password
>> If your that concerned.. it’s a fishing trip..
> 
> Yeah, I get the one occasionally that claims to have compromising video
> taken with my PC's webcam.   Except, of course, my computer doesn't 
> have
> and never has had a webcam.
> 
> About the most persistent spam that I receive on my cctalk email are 
> ads
> from an outfit offering cheap Canadian drugs.
> 
> --Chuck