Spamcop Security Breach - Customer information briefly exposedCustomer information briefly exposed (old news - 12:09PM Saturday Aug 14 2004) tags: security · spam Several users of SpamCop have been informing us they've been notified by e-mail that their e-mail addresses were briefly vulnerable due to a security breach. According to these two threads over at the SpamCop forums, the problem, which allowed spammers access to SpamCop user e-mails, was quickly fixed. -------- Hello SpamCop user (or recipient of SpamCop reports), We appologize for this email, but we felt it was important to let you know of a recent security bug in the SpamCop codebase. This problem was fixed within hours of its discovery, but unfortunately your address was among the very small number that was revealed before we were able to resolve the problem. We want you to know that security remains our highest priority. We are always working to ensure that your account information remains secure. Please accept our sincere appologies for this serious oversight. If you have any questions, comments or concerns you may reply to this email to reach a SpamCop representative. Thank you for your understanding, - SpamCop management -------- |
said by antiphishing:
Now these would explain why I have been getting three to four times as much junk email in my account the last two weeks of so. Say it isn't so but the people who believe in the service have to face the fact that Ironport doesn't care about the people who pay for the service. Likewise, this is not personal vendetta from me against Ironport. This was was posted in another forum and real is not a true fact. I just disagree on how Ironport runs the service as a whole. In a two year period I have found the service to be inaccurate, prone to technical problems, and at times the service sent complaints directly to spammers.
This was after spending countless hours checking the logic beyond the service using centralops.net
A lot of naive people on the internet real believe in the service, but this new information is wake up call to user who use Spamcop.net and think it's infallible. If you like the service,then keep using it but keep in mind that it has limitations that could cause you to get more junk email.
said by antiphishing:
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Oh move along people!
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Just because you don't like my opinions doesn't give you the right to tell other people to move on. Some people just might agree with my opinions towards a online service. A lot of online services get trashed in the forum, but that doesn't give someone the right to unfairly steer a forum topic. Lets please stick to the forum topic.
I am not trying to start a flame war here, but some people in this forum go to far.
Thank You.
said by Kim Jong:
No I'm just pointing out that your opinion might be biased.
said by antiphishing:I would think 24 hours is plenty of time to respond to a thread that YOU started, but in any case . . . you could respond now.
..and that was because I was not given enough time to respond to peoples opinions.
said by dbmaven:
I'll leave this open for 24 hours after the initial post (roughly 1PM EDT Friday). If no response by the thread starter by then......locked or jailed.
said by Piobaireachd:
The originator of this thread has a long history (and an axe to grind) with Spamcop. Just do a search for "John Senchak".
said by BangBang:
This guy has become a trolling menace on the spamcop newsgroup
said by madylarian:
What I find kind of interesting about the original poster is the antihotmail.com website being hawked in his or her sig. Just for the heck of it I took a look at it's privacy policy and found this, which happens to be located on everyone.net:
Through our Everyone Benefits program customers can receive information about third party services that are likely to be of interest. Users of our free service will initial be opted in to this program while customers signing up any of our paid service can choose to opt in. Customers can opt out of our Everyone Benefits program by clicking on the link provided in the email or by visiting our site and opting out.
We may also use personally identifiable End-User information to provide targeted content and commerce opportunities to End-Users based on their demographic and behavioral information.
said by antiphishing:
[If people where intelligent enough to do a WHOIS lookup on the domain, you would in find that I run the site. Now lets move on, and stick to the topic at hand. I am done on this issue.]