Important Notice - Personal Information

[Pierce]

Hi Everybody,

I just want to remind you to be vigilant regarding your personal information.

Today we removed 2 threads that ask members for a long list of details. While this may seem like a fun activity it can also unfortunately end in tears.

If you remember when you register for different things online, such as bank accounts, emails, paypal accounts etc there is always a secret question.

These questions can be, names of good friends, colours, maiden names, favourite pet names, school's, favourite locations all of which are asked directly/indirectly on these kind of threads.

So once somebody knows your email, they just need to figure out what services you use, and then they have a list of personal information that they can use as a directory to reset your password on that service and then gain unauthorized entry. Some services like paypal do an excellent job of sending you an email if your primary email changes but other services may not do that.

Again we are just asking for people to be vigilant when giving out personal information. As it says in our rules, all content on this site can be googled and that is possibly how you even found MiniMins.

You are responsible for your own security and personal details on the internet.

Best Regards,
Pierce

 

[Pierce]

This is an interesting article:

Hacker break-in of Twitter e-mail yields secret docs

Pierce

 

[gaelic girl]

Thanks Pierce for the reminder and the links never looked at it in any other way than fun silly me x

 

[Pierce]

This is the full how it was done:

The Anatomy Of The Twitter Attack

 

[ladybird_gal]

Thanks Pierce - You are so right about being vigilent. x x

 

[lotsabeefy]

Cheers pierce for looking out for everyone

 

[BeaBea]

Thank you Pierce that's kind of you to let us know

 

[cherrydrop]

It's horrible to think there might be malicious types on here.

 

[BlueDiamond]

 

[LisaG]

Ooooh...that's how they do it! Thanks

 

[wannabeslimagain]

Thanks for keeping us on our guard, never thought of anything like that, but then nice people like us don't think of how nasty some people can be sometimes. Always best to be safe than sorry eh xx

 

[J-Mo]

Its certainly very scary how these people work!!

 

[Benrese]

They are constantly finding new was to infiltrate systems-so we must always be on the look out! Thanks for the thread.

 

[Beebs]

Thank you for the warning, good to have a reminder that although the vast majority of people in cyber space are honest & helpful, we still need to be vigilent.