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tmuir · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 1:38 pm Post subject: Change your photobucket password

I logged onto photobucket tonight and got a message pop up telling me to change my password. On a bit more investigating it would appear photobucket suffered a security breach (It got hacked).
They say they stopped it before any harm was done but as a precaution they recommend everyone change their password.

Probably not a bad idea to change it just to be safe
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Nick · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject:

I had it pop up a few days ago, but I hate changing passwords, so I kept mine.

bessytractor · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:37 pm Post subject:

I had that but cba to change it, so left it
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steamgranny · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject:

Same here but chose to keep my old one too, otherwise I forget

johnreid · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject:

They have no financial information of mine, if they did they would feel sorry for me

What information is there to be worried about? I even have the original photos on my hard drive and a CD. Photobucket is one place I wouldnt store private info
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tmuir · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject:

I'm just paranoid as I was done twice by credit card fraud over Dec Jan to a total of $2000, got it all back but it took a while and I think that was spywear on my PC. Could not detect any but to be safe bought a new HD and Vista and did a clean install.

I also got wierd emails from my ISP, 289 emails to be exact saying I was logged on with more than one instance at the same time.
This got me worried especially when I got the photobucket message but I eventually figured out my ISP messages were due to my modem going flakey after a big rain storm and every few second dropping out and then logging in for the entire day whilst I was at work.
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CCairns · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

I tried to keep the same password, but when I next logged in I got the same message again. So I had to change it to stop getting that warning message each time I logged on.

Graham-Jilly · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject:

got the same message here so just changed it.
we have to change our passwords monthly at work so wasn't a problem for me as I am used to it
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alan2525 · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:18 pm Post subject:

As far as personal information getting into the wrong hands.

I once had a fraudulent transaction on my credit card - it was actually a refund of a hotel bill!

a credit of about $250's! There were also another couple of small transactions and another for another hotel a couple of weeks after the refund! I was still actually in credit though! But obviously cancelled the card and questioned those transactions so they were taken off of my account.

Odd to make fraudulent credits onto peoples credit cards though!

johnreid · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 10:48 pm Post subject:

But so any of you have that kind of information on Photobucket? If it was PayPal I would be the first one to jump and change the credit card. I just am not that worried about photobucket.
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redryder · Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 11:00 pm Post subject:

I did not change mine when the request came. If you use the same password as you use for financial purposes, ebay, paypal, etc, you might want to change the rest of them and leave photobucket alone.
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Mister Occlusion · Posted: Fri May 16, 2008 2:17 am Post subject:

I don't even remember my password... Got it in an off-the-network text file somewhere...

flash drives, etc, are great for storing such things.
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