Will in never end? Vertical Scope hacking.
 

Drowning in BS from road tax issues - two cars needing ages of phone time to sort road tax, masses of other @$^@$ and then I see a warning from these folk who I've never heard of.
What We Are Doing etc., etc. And what I should do. Oh, @#$%#$ Will I fit that in after car maintainence, plumbing, doing woman's work, spending time on JB (which I'm not willing to stop doing :}) or just ignore it.

Almost certainly a phishing scam. Do not click on any links provided.

If you genuinely think you may have been affected by a data hack, log on to the service by manually entering the web address and check for advice or change your password from there.

Never, ever, click on links provided in these sorts of emails.

Are you talking about the links provide in the Rivets post above :confused:

I am a member of AVSForum and have received no notice.

Oddly, I have just received an email from an outfit simply called 'Patient' telling me they are changing their terms and conditons so I should be aware when using the service, whatever that is.

Never heard of them.
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It would appear to be a genuine alert:

Hacker steals 45 million accounts from hundreds of car, tech, sports forums | ZDNet

This is among dozens of similar reports all around 14-15 June this year.

SD

I belong to an American car forum and I thought the e-mail was a scam. However it
was genuine and all I had to do was change my password.

Try https://www.leakedsource.com/main/

Put in your user id, change search type to username and a list at the bottom of the screen will show sites that may have been compromised.

One of my other userids showed a few sites I had never visited but one I did. Not surprising as the ID was not that unique. Changed the password on the site I did use.

The Caddy forum in the US was a wondrous site, a bloke, sorry guy called Bobinski or somesuch told us things about the development of the N* or NorthStar V8 that left me sitting there with me mouth hanging open. The crush on bearings followed by hours at 6000 rpm before doing all again a tenth of a tho' up etc., etc. The Mercedes site had a load of people talking about how many times they'd polish their cars in a week. (Bloody things would probably be broke, so polishing them was one way of passing the time.)

My neighbour pal had a Viper, so it's possible I looked things up for him.

So, if one does not really care about the site - i.e., I don't care if someone knows I get turned on by the fact you mustn't used Helix but 'TimeCert' thingies to repair head-stud threads - I'll assume it doesn't matter much, relax and go back to my book on Head Up displays.

I paid for 1 day on https://www.leakedsource.com/main/ $4.

I then checked all my userids, email addresses and my friends email addresses.

Most seemed to be the LinkedIn hack of 2012 and something related to Adobe this year.

A couple showed emails used on the Ashley Madison site and something called Fling.com (NSFW).

I called those 2 friends and told them. I know neither of them would use those sites. But if those sites send an email for whatever reason, and the email address is shared with SHMBO, there may be some explaining to do.

I hope they have a watertight privacy policy because otherwise that sounds like a marvellous method for collecting valid userIDs and e-mail addresses for various websites... and have people pay to contribute them!

Did you ask your friends for consent before submitting their e-mail addresses to an online service?

Another good reason to use a unique e-mail address for each website to which you register.

El Bunto
 

I sincerely Hope So.

I was very nearly tempted to access the site(on a paid basis) too, after being hammered by Spam at my primary EM address.

It was only after a good nights sleep that it dawned on me that perhaps this was not a good idea.

I’m afraid that the OP heeds to approach his ISP and obtain a new a new default EM address.

Or alternatively: set up a set of G Mail addresses.

CAT III

haveibeenpwned.com enables a check of any email address or username for data breach. Had to change my Adobe & Tumblr passwords.

On another note, (in response to the OP's "will it never end" question), no.

As a penetration tester (someone who is paid to break websites to find the flaws before a malicious hacker is) I can tell you there are many companies that don't bother getting a security report and many more that once they've got one, don't act on the information within because it's going to cost too much etc. This is basically handing their website to hackers on a plate.

There is always going to be hacking/phishing/malware but steps can be taking to protect against it and minimise the impact. Unfortunately not everyone takes those steps which is why we end up with a lot of these breaches.