Security breach

[timewarptickers]

Hmm, guess I won't store vital personal information like social security number in my Winamp Forums profile

[onlyquality2011]

FAQ...

7) What happened?



Does that suggest they weren't employing a full range before they were hacked?

You can say nobody is perfect. How many staff do you need to have? 1? 2? 1000?

[JolietJake]

FAQ...

7) What happened?

As a result of our continuous security monitoring, we identified and blocked this attack. Additionally, new security measures have been deployed to help keep this type of breach from happening in the future.

Does that suggest they weren't employing a full range before they were hacked?

[jaromanda]

haha jaromanda, before I even looked at this thread I knew thered be a sorry sod who'd fight to death for "his" precious company. Winamp messed up on this one period. Now maybe you should stop crying and accusing others of being chickens while you are a company loving sheep...

PS: I just saw you're from AU. That sheep comment was't meant racist...

Sheep thing is New Zealand and I aint fighting to the death for winamp ... I'm fighting to the death for common sense

Why worry about accidental racist connotations when his signature is completely racist anyway?

My signature is factual

labratofel: French people aren't a race, but you're right, it is offensive, and was clearly changed to goad Kaminari (who is from Paris).

bur2000: Llamas aren't sheep.

goad Kaminari? the french knuckle made threats beyond his station ... he should expect a little fun at his expense

[osmosis]

labratofel: French people aren't a race, but you're right, it is offensive, and was clearly changed to goad Kaminari (who is from Paris).

bur2000: Llamas aren't sheep.

[labratofel]

Why worry about accidental racist connotations when his signature is completely racist anyway?

[bur2000]

haha jaromanda, before I even looked at this thread I knew thered be a sorry sod who'd fight to death for "his" precious company. Winamp messed up on this one period. Now maybe you should stop crying and accusing others of being chickens while you are a company loving sheep...

PS: I just saw you're from AU. That sheep comment was't meant racist...

[VonZipper]

I'm fairly certain that my email has been compromised by the security breach, since I got a large spike in spam since the breach. I'd kept this email account largely spam-free until now.

[Batter Pudding]

I think it is just a clever way to get all the old users to come back and visit the forum.

[Tsuyo]

Well, it's in fact not the best what ever could happen.
I changed my passwords except this here on winamp.com. I don't care about someone who is using my account here. If you see some posts like "Blahblah penis blahalbhablahb", remove the post
Anyway. It teached all of us, that we should NOT use the same passwords on every website.
Every software does have some safety failures. The best example would be Windows, Mac and Linux. Deal with it.

[DrO]

it's due to all of the hits on the forum server.

-daz

[labratofel]

Tried but got: This webpage is not available
The webpage at http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=327366 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

The site has been doing that to me all day.

As an extremely regular member of the site (twice in my life) I cannot say if this is a recurring problem.

did you read the FAQ link posted in the email?

Tried but got: This webpage is not available
The webpage at http://forums.winamp.com/showthread.php?t=327366 might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
Error 101 (net::ERR_CONNECTION_RESET): Unknown error.

[NiceguyRK]

LOL haven't used my winamp forum account in YEARS last login was 2007 :P
even my password was 1234567
Why on earth would someone bother stealing it is beyond me

[joebloggscity]

nothign is full proof, and I respect that Winamp has notified us all of the situation, hopefully in time before someone posts on here with our usernames and spams etc...

As for sending us spam emails? Already happens with others, just empty span bin regularly.

Hope you can sort out further protection in time.