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Feedback Potential account hack - BoilerUP

CStroud

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I believe this account has been hacked due to the PM’s I received with typical scammer lingo. Yes I did report it to the mods just want others to be aware.
 

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Evidently the same piece of shit lowlife scammer has control of my account, despite me changing the email and password used. They are messaging people with WTB ads, offering to sell them shit and requesting paypal or venmo payment. They conveniently aren't offering a name.

THE POSTER WHO HAS BEEN KNOWN FOR OVER A DECADE AS BOILERUP DID NOT SEND THOSE MESSAGES.

I've messaged Lowlight, alexj-12 and the site in general requesting to have this account nuked/banned. I've been a member of SH for well over a decade as BoilerUP but I want my history & posting reputation to have nothing to do with members getting scammed.
 
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Lol.. I reported an account that had the same post for the Garmin Xero for $440 with the same external link and photo that has been going around and the admin responded "Any proof?"

Somebody is getting into accounts, scamming guys for $400-$450 with these long term accounts and then deleting the posts.
 
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Yeah, whichever piece of shit has control of my account replied to Thebiglebowski's WTB 25 Creed brass thread with a DM, wanted Paypal, and once I replied "DO NOT SEND ANY MONEY" the entire conversation got deleted.

Wish I'd have screenshot it...

This sack of dildos starts their fuckery around 1900EDT and continues it "overnight" US time...have to think its somebody in eastern Europe or Asia.
 
Have to wonder, if this is a widespread thing does the scamming hacker somehow have control/access to SnipersHide's underlying code and/or member database, like global admin level access????

I still can't figure out how I can change my SH email and password, yet somebody still has access to my account. I do note when I try to turn on 2FA it says my password (which is valid everywhere else on this site) doesn't work....

I've seen zero unusual activity on any other forum/website I'm on, so it seems to be isolated specifically to SnipersHide.
 
...and now the raving douche has changed the screenname again from Jointshooters to BurgtJackman66...

Which is interesting, because it said just this morning I couldn't change my screenname until August.

I swear either a mod/admin is behind this, a mod/admin has been compromised by a hacker, or a hacker has penetrated the entire backend of this website.

@Lowlight
 
I assume the problem might be with the token system.
When you log on here, it usually gives your device a "token" that bypasses the need for the password again for an amount of time (30 days or such), and that "token" often continues working even if the password is changed, unless the system is setup to explicitly reject all previous tokens after a password change.

The biggest single "hacking your account" problem is caused by using the same password / username / email address on multiple sites.
One site gets hacked, it goes into the database and then they try it on every other site they can find.

Something to look into and check is have you ever used the same password and username and e-mail address (or even just the same password) on ANY other site at ANY other time? If you have, well that's going to be a problem...

There is also spyware on your browser software issues.

Those are the first 2 things that are the most likely culprits.
 
I assume the problem might be with the token system.
When you log on here, it usually gives your device a "token" that bypasses the need for the password again for an amount of time (30 days or such), and that "token" often continues working even if the password is changed, unless the system is setup to explicitly reject all previous tokens after a password change.

The biggest single "hacking your account" problem is caused by using the same password / username / email address on multiple sites.
One site gets hacked, it goes into the database and then they try it on every other site they can find.

Something to look into and check is have you ever used the same password and username and e-mail address (or even just the same password) on ANY other site at ANY other time? If you have, well that's going to be a problem...

There is also spyware on your browser software issues.

Those are the first 2 things that are the most likely culprits.
I deleted all cookies, unfortunately that didn't solve the problem.

I evidently had an OLD password here, one not used anywhere else...that was a problem that has since been rectified.