Site been hacked?

[Sir-Fritz]

So i just got some email from costello (who i now know his real name

) saying gbatemp has been hacked and my pass was stolen. How did this happen and do we get compensation

? Also more importantly did this happen or is this some sick hoax

 

[playallday]

No Christmas presents for Costello this year!

(j/k, i don't blame him. I wonder who did this though.)

I see you got hacked as well. In your PM the one Costello sent you it says all the people who got hacked. Seems that the people who have 200 posts or more that got hacked.

ALSO GOT HACKED!!...

Not true, a few zero posters got hacked.

 

[playallday]

I got the same email from Costello 3 times... What's up with that?

 

[BiscuitBee]

So were the users picked at random, or was it the cool dudes only?

Spoiler

On Topic: I'm with p1ngy on this one, just change it rather than keeping one that is compromised.

 

[ZeWarrior]

No Christmas presents for Costello this year!

(j/k, i don't blame him. I wonder who did this though.)

I see you got hacked as well. In your PM the one Costello sent you it says all the people who got hacked. Seems that the people who have 200 posts or more that got hacked.

ALSO GOT HACKED!!...

I have well over 2000 posts and I didn't get shit. Unless.. is my name on that list? Can anybody who has that PM Costello sent, post all the names that he is aware that got hacked?

 

[Veristical Blaze]

Is there some kind of sequence in the numbers from the people who gotten 'hit' by this? I luckily am not 'hit' by this. It's nice to know though the staff is busy with it!

 

[apd]

I was hit and can see the other users who have in the mass pm we got.

Its random usersname A-Z no real pattern to it.

Do we get a we was hacked medal?

I hope so.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

So Costello, is it possible to get a username change as well?

 

[Chaz.]

Unfortunately I did too. IF YOU DID NOT GET A PM OR EMAIL YOU ARE FINE!

That means I have had to change my hotmail gbatemp and facebook passwords! Oh well.

 

[Elritha]

Yea, I changed mine just in case. Even though I didn't get any email. Better safe then sorry.

 

[The Catboy]

I didn't get an email or a PM, but I changed everything just to be safe.

 

[ProtoKun7]

Looks like I'm alright for the time being

 

[alidsl]

So Costello, is it possible to get a username change as well?

Read one of the stickies

 

[Deleted-167431]

Changed it.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

So Costello, is it possible to get a username change as well?

Read one of the stickies

That sticky is locked, and was locked before this. I'm asking him a question about right now, if I can. Not about sometime back in September.

 

[playallday]

As if my password wasn't already long enough, it's almost a short story now.

 

[dinofan01]

I iz Hackezed!!!! But seriously I was hacked and I got the email in the middle of the night when I was sleeping. Saw it said Costello and thought "What the deuce." Read GBAtemp got hacked and panicked but I wan't going to do anything till morning since my computer is off and hope for the best. I log into the temp expecting a front page warning saying "WATCH OUT! WERE UNDER ATTACK" and instead see nobody talking about it till now. I changed most of my passwords around the internet. For now I feel safe but still....you never know really. This really is BS but I dont blame anyone here. Oh and yeah does anyone know if it was random people? I'd post the list of people affected by I think that goes against people's privacy.

 

[FluffyLunamoth]

I iz Hackezed!!!! But seriously I was hacked and I got the email in the middle of the night when I was sleeping. Saw it said Costello and thought "What the deuce." Read GBAtemp got hacked and panicked but I wan't going to do anything till morning since my computer is off and hope for the best. I log into the temp expecting a front page warning saying "WATCH OUT! WERE UNDER ATTACK" and instead see nobody talking about it till now. I changed most of my passwords around the internet. For now I feel safe but still....you never know really. This really is BS but I dont blame anyone here. Oh and yeah does anyone know if it was random people? I'd post the list of people affected by I think that goes against people's privacy.

The people know who they are. Everyone who was affected got an email and PM about it.

 

[ProtoKun7]

I iz Hackezed!!!! But seriously I was hacked and I got the email in the middle of the night when I was sleeping. Saw it said Costello and thought "What the deuce." Read GBAtemp got hacked and panicked but I wan't going to do anything till morning since my computer is off and hope for the best. I log into the temp expecting a front page warning saying "WATCH OUT! WERE UNDER ATTACK" and instead see nobody talking about it till now. I changed most of my passwords around the internet. For now I feel safe but still....you never know really. This really is BS but I dont blame anyone here. Oh and yeah does anyone know if it was random people? I'd post the list of people affected by I think that goes against people's privacy.

List's already been posted

in the other thread.

And I'd lol if there was an all-out temper-hacker war. Pick your side, choose to be allied with Ace Gunman, or join the dark hackers...

 

[MadClaw]

Well what an inconvenience, i have to change my pass nao

 

[megawalk]

oh my god

what the (Beeeeeeeep)!!
OH MY LOLLERPOPPING GOD. this frightens me....ah well better keep myself on the look-out

luckily i have a word database of 703 words
so i changed it.