[colug-432] Looks like Linux Mint Forum got hacked

[Jeffrey Cannell]

I use that forum all the time, ironically I'm in the process of moving from Mint to Ubuntu Cinnamon.

Jeff Cannell

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> On Sep 18, 2016, at 11:45 AM, Paul M Dubuc <work at paul.dubuc.org> wrote:
> 
> Hi Rob,
> 
> What software do you use for your own email server.  I've been thinking 
> about doing this also.  Does it support a caldav calendar server as well?
> 
> Thanks,
> Paul
> 
> 
> Rob Stampfli wrote:
>> I run my own email server so I can create many different email addresses,
>> which I do every time I have to give one out for some reason.  This makes
>> it easy to deactivate the occasional address which gets compromised.
>> This morning I had a spam message waiting in my inbox, offering to sell
>> me Samsung S6 Edges (individually or in bulk) at a presumably good price.
>> The mail came from "darkhack.su" -- no beating around the bush there --
>> and was delivered to an address that I only used to set up an account on
>> the linuxmint.com forum years ago.  I haven't been very active in that
>> forum, last posting in 2014 and last logging in in February, but a word
>> to the wise:  It looks like their database of users has been compromised,
>> so if you are a member of that forum, beware of any emails you may receive
>> from the Linux Mint community.
>> 
>> Rob
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