It's 2010 not 1998 - really shouldn't have to say this - but nonetheless I guess people never learn?
This is not related to HBGames.org however it doesn't hurt to keep up with the greater rm community.
It's come to our attention that someone in the RM community is butthurt enough to hack user's accounts, gaining their passwords. Okay, it was a quick reaction, on further inspection while some people from the same community were hacked it doesn't appear to be someone from the RM community. False positive.
Whenever you register on somebody else's website, you are providing them with your password. Their system may encrypt it, but that does not stop the admins having your password if they really want to find it.
I would trust the administrators of HBGames.org with my life - but you shouldn't. This is the Internet, and bastards exist. The simple solution is what is always said, everywhere:
Never use the same password for more than one website
You could probably break this rule (but it's silly to risk it), if your accounts are not worth anything to, but there is an even more pressing issue:
Never, ever, use your e-mail password anywhere else, not even for other e-mail accounts
Your e-mail account is sacred
Your e-mail account provides any hacker with access to your entire life. As I said, bastards exist. If you use your e-mail password on someone's forum, you are handing over everything.
Think about the amount of websites you are registered on. Any one of them is accessible to an e-mail hacker with the click of a "forgotten password" button.
It's silly that I feel need to make this announcement but apparently more than one person has been hit. So! Do something about it! Learn something about online security and how the web works.
What if I trust the person?
Ok, but what happens when you fall out in five years time?
Are you saying you hack e-mails?
No. However my point is it is silly to trust anybody when it comes to important shit like this. Just change the password to your email account to something you don't use on any website and keep it that way.
If you start branching people into ones you trust and ones you don't, you just leave so many open holes.
Why would somebody do such a thing!
Bastards exist; this is the Internet.
Could someone really do damage with a password?
Think of all the places you are registered. Your email. Your paypal account. Your ebay passwords. Your online bank. Your facebook page - which is linked to your friends.
It will never happen to me anyway!
Okay!
You're making a big deal out of this dude, chill
Meh, never hurts to be safe.
Simple fact of the matter is that if you think someone managed to hack your email from a website, well, it shows your shit isn't secure enough.
This is not related to HBGames.org however it doesn't hurt to keep up with the greater rm community.
It's come to our attention that someone in the RM community is butthurt enough to hack user's accounts, gaining their passwords. Okay, it was a quick reaction, on further inspection while some people from the same community were hacked it doesn't appear to be someone from the RM community. False positive.
Whenever you register on somebody else's website, you are providing them with your password. Their system may encrypt it, but that does not stop the admins having your password if they really want to find it.
I would trust the administrators of HBGames.org with my life - but you shouldn't. This is the Internet, and bastards exist. The simple solution is what is always said, everywhere:
Never use the same password for more than one website
You could probably break this rule (but it's silly to risk it), if your accounts are not worth anything to, but there is an even more pressing issue:
Never, ever, use your e-mail password anywhere else, not even for other e-mail accounts
Your e-mail account is sacred
Your e-mail account provides any hacker with access to your entire life. As I said, bastards exist. If you use your e-mail password on someone's forum, you are handing over everything.
Think about the amount of websites you are registered on. Any one of them is accessible to an e-mail hacker with the click of a "forgotten password" button.
It's silly that I feel need to make this announcement but apparently more than one person has been hit. So! Do something about it! Learn something about online security and how the web works.
What if I trust the person?
Ok, but what happens when you fall out in five years time?
Are you saying you hack e-mails?
No. However my point is it is silly to trust anybody when it comes to important shit like this. Just change the password to your email account to something you don't use on any website and keep it that way.
If you start branching people into ones you trust and ones you don't, you just leave so many open holes.
Why would somebody do such a thing!
Bastards exist; this is the Internet.
Could someone really do damage with a password?
Think of all the places you are registered. Your email. Your paypal account. Your ebay passwords. Your online bank. Your facebook page - which is linked to your friends.
It will never happen to me anyway!
Okay!
You're making a big deal out of this dude, chill
Meh, never hurts to be safe.
Simple fact of the matter is that if you think someone managed to hack your email from a website, well, it shows your shit isn't secure enough.
