Why is there a Membership list anyway?

[kh99]

Originally Posted by apsrfvb4

hmmm idk -having this latest attack is going on alphabetically - I predict just a few more emails from the D peeps tomorrow

Yeah, I agree that they most likely did get the names from the member list, I just think if it wasn't available and someone wanted to to look for passwords on this site, they'd just get the names another way. I could be wrong.

One thing that's interesting to me is that I've never heard of this happening on other sites (although I don't claim to have that kind of knowledge of a lot of forums), and even though it happens here every few months I haven't seen a lot of evidence of accounts being hacked.