p.p.p.paranoia

[cdave]

Did anyone else get an unsolicited "Lost Password" email from Livejournal, and/or other web services last night?

Comments

Ahem.

[fiat-knox.livejournal.com]

"To lose one password may be regarded as a misfortune - to lose two looks like malfeasance."

:D

[chiller.livejournal.com]

No. Oh dear, have you been H4X0RZ0R3D?

[cdave]

I presume not, as I still have access to the accounts. I'm concerned that it was a clumsy attempt to do so though.

I don't use the same password on different accounts, and the emails I received don't include the password, just a link to change it.

For this reason, I'm quite annoyed with Tacheback, who sent me my password in plaintext in the welcome email.

[feorag.livejournal.com]

One of the things LJ does, if you (or anyone else) attempts to change your password, is to mail the account owner (you) a link to do it. If should mention that if you didn't try to change your password, you should do nothing.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

> For this reason, I'm quite annoyed with Tacheback, who sent me my password in plaintext in the welcome email.

This is the sort of thing which should be banned. To people who do this "YOU ARE TOO IGNORANT TO BE TRUSTED!"

[cdave]

I did send them a snotty email, and they responded saying they'd do better next year, but wouldn't change anything in the middle of this year's monlth long campaign.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

no

[cdave]

JSpam IP: 110.132.116.84

[surliminal.livejournal.com]

Actually I asked for one but didn;t get it! maybe you have mine :)

[sinboy.livejournal.com]

Nope. I usually forward those to the relevant abuse teams if it's for a service I actually use, and then report is as a phishing message to gmail.

[cdave]

They would appear to be genuine, not phishing messages. My working theory is that someone clicked on the "lost password" options on these sites, trying to see if they could guess my security questions and access my accounts. fortunately that doesn't seem to be the way these sites work.

I should check all my other online accounts. *Sigh*