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Re: Influx of Hacked Accounts
by
tarsua
on 25/05/2015, 21:02:24 UTC
Alot of people use fake emails since no confirmation is needed when you signup, and what if i lost the password to the email that i signed up with?

They have a week to manually reset and update their email address. It is very irresponsible to setup an account and lose track of your throwaway email credentials. Any other accounts will be lost unless its a known member who can prove its them to theymos directly.

This would be a good opportunity to clear off many garbage shill accounts as well as they are more likely using fake email accounts.

Its not the end of the world if a few old anonymous accounts get frozen either and is a much better alternative than a bunch of compromised accounts start scamming people.
its not a matter of having throwaway emails, its a matter of not having made an email at all, just putting something where you should put your email address.
The hacked accounts make it pretty clear that either the passwords weren't salted,

What hacked accounts?