DV Doctor hack and just how safe is your web access login
Posted: Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:26 am
For those who do not frequent it, the DV Doctor forum is where the old Computer Video mag forum was hosted, since the mags' demise the forum has expanded greatly is is a great source of material.
Just over a week ago the forum was hacked and it is expected to be down until next week.
I can sort of understand why hackers can attack a business but certainly not why they would attack a forum for helping others and for sharing information.
The Administrators state that they do not think that passwords were hacked (I take there comment that they actually have no idea).
This in turn leads on to me offering aquestion that I suggest you answer to yourself....... just how many web sites do I log on to with the same user name and same password?
Now just how many of those sites hold information about you that could be valuable about cloning your identity.
I often have the same user name and password on forum sites but on any where financial details are held then they are totally different, despite this I have had a problem.
Something seems to have happened to one of my credit cards with three transactions totalling over £800 being charged to my account............good luck to the idiot who used my credit card to pay a parking fine in London and for two other transactions again in London.
The last time I was in London was last May, my car stayed outside the charging zone in the hotel car park for three nights and I did not use the credit card once so no joy there as to where my card was cloned; and no, it never goes out of sight when in a shop.
So just where did my data get stolen from?
Just over a week ago the forum was hacked and it is expected to be down until next week.
I can sort of understand why hackers can attack a business but certainly not why they would attack a forum for helping others and for sharing information.
The Administrators state that they do not think that passwords were hacked (I take there comment that they actually have no idea).
This in turn leads on to me offering aquestion that I suggest you answer to yourself....... just how many web sites do I log on to with the same user name and same password?
Now just how many of those sites hold information about you that could be valuable about cloning your identity.
I often have the same user name and password on forum sites but on any where financial details are held then they are totally different, despite this I have had a problem.
Something seems to have happened to one of my credit cards with three transactions totalling over £800 being charged to my account............good luck to the idiot who used my credit card to pay a parking fine in London and for two other transactions again in London.
The last time I was in London was last May, my car stayed outside the charging zone in the hotel car park for three nights and I did not use the credit card once so no joy there as to where my card was cloned; and no, it never goes out of sight when in a shop.
So just where did my data get stolen from?