I received 189 emails
half of them were a notification from daily click informing me of my password and username (all were the same)
the other half (also the same) were a message from stealhmessage.com
wtf
Same thing happened to me. Only I got about 20 emails from the DC informing me that my password is the same and my login name is also the same. After reading that Admin Shab had been hacked into I figured it was the hacker who sent me all these. What I would like to know is if I'll need to change my password. Ofcourse there could be another perfectly reasonable explanation for how I got these emials.
Hey
Those emails are generated by sendpass.asp, as Teapot said. Dont worry, it would be impossible for someone to actually hack your password using this method unless they somehow had access to your email inbox, or they were catching packets headed to/from your computer... but going about things that way would take longer than just hacking DC outright, so I'm sure no one has that much spare time.
The only reason why sending a million and one emails via sendpass would be done is to simply annoy the user anonymously, since no information is saved about the person who ran the script in the first place (i.e. their IP address). It would also slow down the server a bit, but it wouldnt make a huge difference since it doesnt require a lot of process or bandwidth to send such a small message, and the server can handle way more than that.
So, in other words, dont worry about it. You cant be hacked. If you dont want to receive the emails you can either remove your email address from your account (not good in case you lose your password or your account IS hacked, because it makes it harder to return your account to you).
You can also have Outlook remove emails from that address automatically (no matter which version you are using, be it Express or otherwise). Simply click Tools → Message Rules → Mail and create a new rule which automatically deletes any emails from robot@create-games.com.
Mike
"Now I guess we're... 'Path-E-Tech Management'" -Dilbert
Actually I was talking to Club about that earlier.
I want to put a limit on the number of password attempts to prevent brute-force attacks, and I want to restrict the number of "send pass" accesses per user to one or two per day to prevent spamming.
Either club or myself will implement these in the near future.
Mike
"Now I guess we're... 'Path-E-Tech Management'" -Dilbert
JULI@N we obviously have a common enemy, the same thing happened to me. I only got about 30 or so though.
Show me the power child,
I'd like to say,
That I'm down on my knees today,
Gives me the butterflies,
Gives me away,
'Til I'm up on my feet again,
I'm feeling outshined.
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