email hacked 1616 Responses

Last post: 7 months, 1 week ago | Thread started: Apr 17, 08, 12:23 p.m.

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• readyok

  alright, wtf! my email has been hacked. It is a mediatemple server. Somehow some spammer fuck got access to my email. They send out thousands of spam messages from my email. I get hundreds of "mailer daemon" returns a day. I change my password and it keeps them out for like 2 days, and then they are back in. What the fuck could be the problem?

  Apr 17, 08, 12:23 p.m. – Permalink

• madirish

  your mail server is being used as a relay. contact mt about it.

  • Please relay that message MT.– flavorful1/2

    See what I did there? I used madirish's relay again.– flavorful2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:24 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Hi there and welcome to the internet and the wonderful world of IT.

  In all likelihood they have not, of course, hacked into your MediaTemple email account and sent thousand of messages from your POP service - rather, your email address has been appropriated and used in the sender/reply-to field of a mass mailout, so that now you're getting lots of bounce backs.

  Don't stress it - happens all the time - my email's received a few this week too, and I'm with MT.

  Enjoy your stay and don't forget to utilise the minibar.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:26 p.m. – Permalink

• readyok

  So, what can be done about it? Am I just doomed to receive hundreds of returned emails every day?

  • Yup.
    
    'Woo'– detritus

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:30 p.m. – Permalink

• Daro

  yep, happens with my gmail too, i get spam from myself

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:32 p.m. – Permalink

• acescence

  yeah, what he said. old school spam trick of forging your address as the sender, your server is not involved. it's tough to stop without root access to your server.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  FCUK Media Temple, they are an overpriced worthless web host!!!

  • Why? It's got nothing to do with MT?– detritus1/3

    Everything to do with Media Temple.– utopian2/3

    frech connection UK them?– flashbender3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:33 p.m. – Permalink

• mistermik

  so true - waste of my time.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:35 p.m. – Permalink

• readyok

  So, wtf. I am doomed to this shit every day? Fuck. Can mediatemple fix it for me? They have root access to the server.

  • ask them to and see what they say. couldn't hurt.– acescence

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:38 p.m. – Permalink

• maximillion_

  ive had loads of this shit too.....and plenty of others i know

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:40 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  It's got nothing to do with MT or any host - somehow they've managed to get your email address (not from your site though - looks like you've already protected that from harvesting) and they've entered it into their DB, to automatically add in as the sender or whatever, and they're sending all these addresses from some other place.

  This lot will die down as all the recipients either reject you (with the bouncebacks you're getting now), add you to their spam list or just delete 'your' mails - tomorrow they'll use some other address, the day after - someone else's. This'll carry on ad nauseum until either a) we get the whole system fixed (God knows how) or b) the markets for Viagra, Cialis, auto insurance and Russian wives bottoms out.

  • MT mail servers along with a few other host recently had their mail servers compromised!– utopian1/2

    Link?– detritus2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:43 p.m. – Permalink

• sikma

  "(not from your site though - looks like you've already protected that from harvesting)"

  how does one go about protecting an email link from harvesting?

  • Using an image to contain your email is usually a good method.– ismith1/4

    You need to do more that that, ismith - doing that still states your email in the mailto: anchor.– detritus2/4

    Usually javascript will work.– ETM3/4

    hmmmm interesting– sikma4/4

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:46 p.m. – Permalink

• detritus

  Sikma, have a dig through here...
  http://www.google.co.uk/custom?h…

  • cool– sikma

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 12:54 p.m. – Permalink

• cbass99

  damn! this just happened to me too, sending spam to all of my contacts, even people i haven't spoken to in years. ex-girlfriends are like "what the hell is he contacting me for." To boot, my new business cards are now crap because of the old email address.

  Bummer. I just got a new account.

  • < that's different. Sounds like you've been hit by a virus or spyware or something.. :\– detritus1/2

    oh, either way it sucked.– cbass992/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 1:07 p.m. – Permalink

• ribit

  Your address isnt ruined... We have this happen too every so often on our main website contact addresess (like support@..), you just wait for it to die down. You can always use throw-away addresses for signing up to lists n stuff, either setup your own on your own webhosting account, or Hotmail, or .Mac lets you setup multiple aliases and recycle them...

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 1:17 p.m. – Permalink

• Mojo

  MT aren't really over priced.

  • No, especially for us Brits with the cheap dollar and our expensive homegrown alternatives.– detritus

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 1:36 p.m. – Permalink

• stoplying

  same shit started happening about two/three weeks ago to me. Annoying as all hell.

  

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  Dog-earApr 17, 08, 1:59 p.m. – Permalink