I know H.A.M.B. is no longer affiliated just wondered if I'm being scammed? You can Delete if not relevant . . Notice of Data Breach You may have heard reports recently about a security issue involving VerticalScope. We would like to make sure you have the facts about what happened, what information was involved, and the steps we are taking to help protect you. VerticalScope owns and operates a number of community websites. You are receiving this email because you are a registered user of the following community website(s) involved in the data breach: www.jockeyjournal.com What Happened? On June 13, 2016, we became aware that February 2016 data stolen from VerticalScope was being made available online. What Information Was Involved? Community member usernames, email addresses, hashed p***words, community userIDS, community website, and the IP address the username originally registered with. What We Are Doing We have invalidated p***words of all VerticalScope user accounts. We have posted a site security notification on each site updating users on the potential risk to certain accounts, the p***word reset and steps we are implementing to improve security. We have implemented stronger p***word rules (p***words now require a minimum of 10+ characters and a mixture of upper- and lower-case letters, numbers and symbols) along with automated account p***word expiries to encourage more frequent p***word changes. We will remind our users to use good p***word practices (not using the same p***word for multiple online accounts and using unique strong p***words). We are in the process of implementing additional safeguards to detect, alert and mitigate any future brute force attempts, and have notified our third party vendors that interact with our various forum API's of the February breach to allow their own security teams to investigate. We are continuing our investigation and will be collecting information to provide to the appropriate law enforcement authorities. VerticalScope is taking steps to strengthen account security. We were already using encrypted p***words and salted hashes to store p***words, and our new p***word controls are intended to further strengthen user security. We are taking steps to investigate and test new encryption and security technologies to further protect our users. What You Can Do To keep your account as safe as possible, we recommend that you regularly change your VerticalScope community p***word, and that you use a unique p***word for each of your online accounts. Using the same p***word for multiple online accounts significantly increases your chances of being compromised. Even though the p***words stolen in February were hashed, we recommend that if you were using (or are currently using) your VerticalScope community p***word across multiple online accounts, that you change your p***word for such other online accounts. We encourage you to regularly review your accounts and report any su****ious or unrecognized activity immediately. For More Information If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our Community Management team by email at cmsupport@verticalscope.com or on the website that you frequent. A support thread has been created on each website, and our support teams are on there to help you through the process and answer any questions you may have. A Notice of Data Breach is also available on community websites involved in the data breach. This email was sent by VerticalScope Inc., 111 Peter Street, Suite 700, Toronto, ON, M5V2H1. If you have any questions regarding the communications you receive from us, please contact us.
hmmm, didnt get that sent to me, but my log in name since 2005 and pw are no longer good like they said.
Not spam according to my online search. See link. http://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker...reds-of-verticalscope-car-tech-sports-forums/ Did you receive this by email or through the Hamb?
I got that notice for another forum I am registered with. I am not particularly su****ious of it, but haven't yet responded to changing my log in data. Ray
Got the same message in an email as well. I am also registered on another forum. The H.A.M.B. was not on the list. Mtw fdu.
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