Quote from: inBitweTrust on May 25, 2015, 09:05:22 PM

Quote from: slurpit on May 25, 2015, 08:57:37 PM

>Yeah I've seen some old accounts just started posting again today after years of not being used Sad.

How is this going to change above? The hacked accounts make it pretty clear that either the passwords weren't salted, or the hackers managed to do much more than garb a db of password hashes & emails. Theymos did say he was rooted :

You cannot assume Theymos is lying and the database wasn't salted. We don't know if the security question was encrypted and salted as well.
Any old accounts compromised likely used easy passwords or easy security questions.

Forcing a password reset where the recovery must happen through email will protect all those accounts unless the user were ignorant enough to use the same password for their email account as here.

Quote from: tarsua on May 25, 2015, 09:02:24 PM

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.

Most of those are probably shill accounts... what type of idiot doesn't spend 5 minutes to create an extra throwaway email for security or spam? Any person that doesn't do this and fails to reset in a week deserves to become a newbie again.

I am sure there may be 1-2 anonymous heroes accounts who have to become newbies again. That is a small price to pay for good security.

well its either using a fake non-existent email or using a fake email which u wont remember the credentials for or arrange an hour a week to clear spam out of your email, the first is the obvious winner

Quote from: qwk on May 25, 2015, 09:12:40 PM

Quote from: tarsua on May 25, 2015, 09:02:24 PM

What hacked accounts?

This.
That.
Probably more. Roll Eyes

for the first you are just paranoid that he doesnt have a username and that he hasnt posted in some time, if you look at his post history, a few years ago, most of his posts were in the german section, although he speaks english now, if you look closely, it is obviously not his first language, he probably received the email today and decided that he will come back