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I got the same, I thought I'd come here to find this thread...

It seems to me that some one/group has been sold a database of 'older' user names & password combinations for various sites/forums etc... most likely gleaned some years ago due to past hacks, key-loggers, infected email accounts and probably a raft of other exploits which all exact the same purpose... to ultimately fund organized crime through spamming which results in revenue generation sadly, they just don't want to sell you sex-aids and cheap trainers and then live a life of access themselves... there's a reason to the madness, it's prevalent and widespread and it's organized, racketeering bodies are sold on databases of such information over and over, year in year out.. the older they get the more useless they become (and cheaper to the gangs) so they take the data and do a sweep to see what falls... any monies made go's back to the source, in years past it was drug trafficking and such & such.. today the internet and such data the public pass through their keyboards is used both commercially by the sites themselves and illegally by criminals if they can get at it... you've all heard of the high-profile attacks on 'steam' accounts for example... well guess what happens to all those accounts? yup that's it... sold on and used not right away but some years later... they'll be due to pop-up soon... i think this round of attacks shows that either the vb.org database was compromised some years back and no-one told you about it... or it's just a collection for username/password combos from an older collection of data... so all of us in this thread is on some kind of older database being sold on to gullible new gangs in the hope of making some illicit funds, i bet it wasn't just vb that was hit recently...

oh and twitter was hacked, apparently... tell you what, that's old data again... old account longs since setup lost to a gang, ripe for spamming and making some money from... all go's back to the same people... Kim Dotcom or whatever he calls himself these days made a million or 20 out of hosting ripped off content... he didn't make that kinda money selling space to students making maps for games or for people to hold their music files online... no, it was rife piracy... he still has lots on the boil... they hack the sites, share the content amount the higher echelons of their content-mules then dish it out multiple times across many forums... all going back to a pay download option...

anyhew if you have an older account... bet you had a little bit-tickle recently... silly sods.