[TheLastSuperman]

Originally Posted by motorhaven

Put away your lame assumptions about someone's experience and your weak lessons before you embarrass yourself. I know what social engineering is - I was dealing with people doing that stuff back in the 1980s, when I wasn't busy coding in assembler. That was well before I started one of the first enthusiast groups on the Internet.



Macrumors has nothing to gain by saying they were hacked. They have credibility to lose, as a matter of fact.

Hey bud, welcome to 2013... this is not the 1980's so continuing to spread rumors when you're not up to par on the situation and apparently do not know the full details or extent of said situation is simply not the right thing to do in my opinion... why do I say that?

Originally Posted by motorhaven

There is a big difference between "making stuff up" and not having information which agrees with yours.

^ Case in point... I don't know the full extent of the situation and if I don't then neither do you so it does not matter if other information does not agree with "yours". Paul would know more then either of us - assumptions and justifications to what you see are fine but continuing to post them as rumors is not because at the time of your initial posts the most info we all had on this was that released by the so-called "hackers" and does everyone take what they say at face value? Pffffft I hope not so neither should you have see my point?

Originally Posted by Digital Jedi

So wait, they went ahead and sent out emails to change your password just to sate hacking paranoia?

Apparently because Paul already stated they hacked a QA server... so yes ladies and gents if it was an old copy of vb.com database on that QA server and your passwords had not changed then common sense tells us that you need to change your passwords, do that regardless of what you read.

DO NOT USE THE SAME PASSWORD FOR EVERY SITE! Buy a cheap black ledger book from an office supply store/wal-mart etc and write down the passwords for each site, keep in your desk drawer for easy reference. You can also have your broswer remember passwords, I do the ledger book because if the right virus hits your pc then all that info is known as well.