Modern Vespa

I signed up as a member of Modernvespa.com forums last night and like an idiot used the same password as my gmail accout and had that email as my email for my user name. Someone from Modernvespa.com hacked that gmail account and used it to send spam. Considering this is the only forum I signed up for and the only time I did something that dumb, the hacker obviously either belongs to or has access to modernvespa.com personal information. protect yourself I reported it to FBI.

I highly doubt that. Passwords on mv are stored in hash form that makes it impossible -- even for me -- to see the actual password. Even if Modern Vespa were hacked -- which it does not appear to have been -- an attacker couldn't retrieve any passwords at all.

I'm sorry but did you say you'v reported it to the FBI lol?!

Oh noes!

When I signed up on Modern Vespa, my teeth got whiter, my IQ went up by 10 points and my feet no longer stink. I guess I was lucky.

But the password is sent in cleartext so some l33t hacker sitting at the starbucks you you log in from could see it.

Not lucky, just hacked by a white hat

Even more likely would be that the OP has a compromised Windows machine, and every keystroke is logged.

But even that's unlikely, making me think this whole report is a hoax.

What's funnier....the FBI bit or Starr's picture! Sorry...totally useless post on my part, but I loved Starr's picture!

Has the spam email been sent from your Gmail account?
If you log in and look at the sent items, is it there?

It's trivially easy to send messages with a fake "from" field and what usually happens is that someone else has their PC compromised by malware and it uses random addresses from the address book to send out spam messages. The first you will know about it is when undeliverable reports come back to you.

It's far more likely that this has happened than someone has hacked MV's forum database.

Key logger would be my guess.

Ive been on MV since 07 and never had an issue.

Im still waiting for my 5k post toaster and my autographed moderators swimsuit calendar for 6k post.

I have filed a claim with the MV compliant department but only received the automated response "thank you for complaint, at this we dont care or were on a ride, please try again later".

If we offered those, no one would post beyond 5999.

Nicely played Michael

SDG

Now I know why my feet began to stink. Right up until that time I didn't have a problem, and then all of a sudden I noticed my feet beginning to stink. Well, actually more than normal.

Everybody is. The moderators hijack them.

Now you know.




I love toast.

Nice foil hat.

I did it.

I hacked your intertubes.

I planted CP on your hard drive and called the FBI.

So there.

That's the mirror view, Benny, PDX, and Genie would be sweet for more than a few!

It's apparently incredibly easy and common to hack email accounts on Gmail and Yahoo. I learned about this the hard way as well. Just change your Gmail password, and the spam emails will stop. Now, how are people getting the passwords? I don't know. Maybe Yahoo and Gmail are just not very secure. Or maybe there are a billion China men using a billion computers to crack the passwords, so that they can send spam for porno and erectile dysfunction meds. Try searching on the web for hacking Yahoo or Gmail accounts, and you will find lots of legitimate links. I even saw a ton of complaints about this on the Yahoo help forum.

Yup. I regularly get spam supposedly from my own yahoo account. Have for years. What bugs me is that other people are probably getting them, too and think I'm the jerk sending them.

I didn't realize what happened until someone forwarded me one of the spam emails from my account. Apparently, it sent spam to people, maybe everyone, that were in my Yahoo address book. I felt really bad, but it wasn't my fault. I haven't had any problems, since I changed my password. I guess I will have to keep changing it everytime it gets hacked. I just hope it doesn't happen often.

You know, it's more than likely someone's just spoofing the SMTP sender than your acct being hacked. After all it is literally just a text field in the message data.

If genie was in it people would keep posting.

I thought about that. If that's the case, then how do you explain them emailing most, if not all, of the people in my Yahoo address book. I don't use Outlook, so they weren't stealing it from that address book. The spam that was forwarded to me included about the top third of my Yahoo address book in the to line, in alphabetical order according to user name, not email address It just seems that the only way to do that is to either get my password or to actually hack into Yahoo's system. I was actually a little amazed myself, especially since one of our closest friends is a security expert, so we know about a lot of the hacking techniques. I just figured no one would waste the time, money, or energy to crack or obtain my password.

Mmmmm.... 22 responses... and no further response by the OP? Me thinks this is a hoax.....
His first post starts this fray?

Love the picture too!

BTW, does the FBI actually TAKE phone calls?

+1

They would probably take a phone call from Osama.

Dear Snapshot.
Congrats on achieving 6k posts.

Please find enclosed an exclusive preview of the MV Moderators Swimwear Calendar 2011

Yes...especially on Saturdays.

You'll pay for that, Marty.

Those are pretty sweet nipple protectors though, ehh?

Marty made us laugh, Marty gets a raise.

Remember Jess you only pick on the ones you love.

SDG

I'll pay for, and split the proceeds, for a hi-res version for t-shirts.... to benefit Scooter-Relief of course

I received an e-mail yesterday from a fellow rider who succumbed to cancer a year and a half ago...is nothing sacred?

cant wait to see Jimc's page.

Foiled !
Bionic

hi brian
welcome to mv
nice of you to introduce yourself
what do you ride is that what we call a beverly

my wife keeps sending me spam

or is that puttingg spam on my sandwiches i get confused

He has a lot to answer for!!

Don't know why, I flashed on a quote from one of my favorite movies: The worst part is that Walter goes all PC on The Dude about the use of 'chinaman' and then goes on to use it himself.

I'm sorry, what were we talking about?

Great one Snapshot!
...But my experience has been different--I've had issues that sure looked MV forum-based

Perhaps you guys could have a bit more compassion
for a wrong, but understandably upset member??

And many thanks, Boulty!
I just love this:

and am hoping to collect the other 11 soon

(However...
MV-Bot can keep the toaster, considering where it's probably been )