I just received an email to confirm my email address. It came to my correct mailbox and mentions my correct user name, but I never initiated the email confirmation request.
Should I be concerned? O_O
Hotbread said:
I just received an email to confirm my email address. It came to my correct mailbox and mentions my correct user name, but I never initiated the email confirmation request.
Should I be concerned? O_O
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I have flagged the admin ref above. Could you fwd the email you have recd to my inbox? (screenshot).
Thanks.
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Hotbread said:
I just received an email to confirm my email address. It came to my correct mailbox and mentions my correct user name, but I never initiated the email confirmation request.
Should I be concerned? O_O
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Just to follow up - this was triggered by some changes made to the wiki, which sent off a confirmation email when you must have clicked on a link on the wiki. I've since disabled this so it won't send out any more.
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Today, I received a scam email to the account I created solely to join XDA developers, eg [email protected]
My privacy settings do not allow other users to send me email., Are there any other users who have recently received a similar email (see below)? Has the email database of xda been compromised?
Greetings
It has come to our attention that your account is involved in illegal transactions. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
Terms of Use: (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.
You must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
STEP 1: ACCOUNT INVESTIGATION
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address.
Click on the link below to verify your e-mail address of the Battle.net account:
https://www.battle.net/account/d3/login-support.html (this link is falsified in the email)
If you can’t click the link above, copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.
STEP 2: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account, it may lead to further action against the account.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to enjoy their time in game. Thank you for respecting our position.
Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
Thary
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment 2012
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gnac said:
Today, I received a scam email to the account I created solely to join XDA developers, eg [email protected]
My privacy settings do not allow other users to send me email., Are there any other users who have recently received a similar email (see below)? Has the email database of xda been compromised?
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Yes, I received the exact same email
Title of email was Diablo 3 but email is about WoW? These scammers are getting more stupid
I haven't got the email
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I've had this before and suffered no ill effects because of it. It's a very common one.
Someone brought this up before and our server guy assures us that our database has not been compromised. If it's a Gmail account then set up the extra security features and view the log in info for peace of mind.
Obviously you shouldn't reply or anything but you already knew that...
Sent From My Fingers To Your Face.....
Is it by any chance hotmail?
They had an issue not long ago when loads of people got spammed with these, reporting them to blizzard themselves can help them bring them down
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2
I received the Diablo III email today to my customised account as well. It is using my own email server, not hotmail, gmail or any of the other online free ones and the format is [email protected] I don't use this email address anywhere else and I've never written it in a publicly viewable area. I've checked my XDA account and as far as I can see the email address is not publicly visible. I use customised addresses like this for each site I register with so I can tell where spam email is coming from, so exactly this kind of situation.
Just got my first email spam (also a diablo III phish) to my specific xda email address. The only other gaming related phishing emails I get is to a email address that was forum compromised several years ago. This is also not generated from a dictionary attack to my server.
Your email address database may not have been compromised, but I would not be surprised if one of your moderators / admins or such that has visible access to visible email addresses on the forums is being screen scraped by a virus.
Could be although the last time I posted here (besides in this thread) was months ago, in March.
othermark said:
Just got my first email spam (also a diablo III phish) to my specific xda email address. The only other gaming related phishing emails I get is to a email address that was forum compromised several years ago. This is also not generated from a dictionary attack to my server.
Your email address database may not have been compromised, but I would not be surprised if one of your moderators / admins or such that has visible access to visible email addresses on the forums is being screen scraped by a virus.
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We have checked our own logs to look for any kind of suspicious activity like scraping, and I believe none was found. The list of privileged accounts is checked regularly, along with removal from anyone no longer requiring it, to prevent this.
We continue to investigate. I've got a number of accounts on XDA registered with different email addresses though, and haven't seen anything like this. I'll continue to look into this.
Thanks for your diligence. As we all know the email account listing swipe/accrual/etc didn't have to be anything recent. This could be from anytime between 2010 and now, somebody has just managed to monetize/find usefulness in the data currently.
There's another thread about this with more replies over here.
Same here
Got the same email today.
I'll flag the server admin, though I'm not sure it's on our end as our database is secure and we don't share any contact details.
Also, another thread exists on this so let's just use one: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835116
I tried to update my e-mail address some days ago, from my old domain to my one, but couldn't get your Web site to send me an activation e-mail to verify the new e-mail address for the life of me. I'd submitted the contact form with all information requesting manual assistance/intervention to facilitate the re-activation/verification of my account. However, no reply has been received.
As such, I was forced to update my e-mail address back to my old domain and received the verification e-mail there (which, by the way, forwards to my new address/domain). There was a bit of a delay from the time that I submitted the e-mail address and when I received the e-mail, but at least, it eventually arrived.
Can somebody please offer some assistance in getting my new e-mail address associated with my account and activated? I have no issue receiving mail from anywhere else at my new address, and yes, I checked the junk/SPAM folder for it.
stew721 said:
I tried to update my e-mail address some days ago, from my old domain to my one, but couldn't get your Web site to send me an activation e-mail to verify the new e-mail address for the life of me. I'd submitted the contact form with all information requesting manual assistance/intervention to facilitate the re-activation/verification of my account. However, no reply has been received.
As such, I was forced to update my e-mail address back to my old domain and received the verification e-mail there (which, by the way, forwards to my new address/domain). There was a bit of a delay from the time that I submitted the e-mail address and when I received the e-mail, but at least, it eventually arrived.
Can somebody please offer some assistance in getting my new e-mail address associated with my account and activated? I have no issue receiving mail from anywhere else at my new address, and yes, I checked the junk/SPAM folder for it.
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To change the email in your xda account, just login to xda, then navigate to "Control Panel" (at the top - right, under your "Welcome, ..." your xda-name).
Then navigate to "Your Profile" > "Edit Your Details" > "EMAIL & PASSWORD" click on the bttuon "Edit EMAIL & PASSWORD".
Alternatively you can navigate to "SETTINGS & OPTIONS" > "Edit EMail & Password".
You should also check your general options under "SETTINGS & OPTIONS" > "Edit Options" > "Messageing & Notification".
stew721 said:
I tried to update my e-mail address some days ago, from my old domain to my one, but couldn't get your Web site to send me an activation e-mail to verify the new e-mail address for the life of me. I'd submitted the contact form with all information requesting manual assistance/intervention to facilitate the re-activation/verification of my account. However, no reply has been received.
As such, I was forced to update my e-mail address back to my old domain and received the verification e-mail there (which, by the way, forwards to my new address/domain). There was a bit of a delay from the time that I submitted the e-mail address and when I received the e-mail, but at least, it eventually arrived.
Can somebody please offer some assistance in getting my new e-mail address associated with my account and activated? I have no issue receiving mail from anywhere else at my new address, and yes, I checked the junk/SPAM folder for it.
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I have changed your email address, and sent you a test email. You do not need to activate the address, but please ensure you can receive emails, or you'll lose features like password reset, and subscriptions.
pulser_g2 said:
I have changed your email address, and sent you a test email. You do not need to activate the address, but please ensure you can receive emails, or you'll lose features like password reset, and subscriptions.
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Thanks for that. I'll check my e-mail later when I get a chance.
It's weird though as XDA has been the only place that I'd not received e-mail from directly. All other activation e-mails were delivered almost instantly. That, and I heavily depend upon e-mail for my business. My clients have never reported any issues either.
With that said, my old domain forwards to my new one. And, I know that e-mails from XDA to it are forwarded on to my new address without issue.
Perhaps, if you have an administrator who could check your mail server at some point when they have a chance for any frozen mail to the new address or any other failures. Offhand, at the moment, I'm not sure as to why there are issues with XDA only.
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stew721 said:
Thanks for that. I'll check my e-mail later when I get a chance.
It's weird though as XDA has been the only place that I'd not received e-mail from directly. All other activation e-mails were delivered almost instantly. That, and I heavily depend upon e-mail for my business. My clients have never reported any issues either.
With that said, my old domain forwards to my new one. And, I know that e-mails from XDA to it are forwarded on to my new address without issue.
Perhaps, if you have an administrator who could check your mail server at some point when they have a chance for any frozen mail to the new address or any other failures. Offhand, at the moment, I'm not sure as to why there are issues with XDA only.
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I'll ask him to check the outgoing mail logs, but AFAIK our servers are set up correctly (else I think more than one person would have issues! )
pulser_g2 said:
I'll ask him to check the outgoing mail logs, but AFAIK our servers are set up correctly (else I think more than one person would have issues! )
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I'd meant to reply here a few days ago, but have been busy with work. However, I'm now receiving e-mails from XDA to my new domain. Please thank whoever did whatever to fix the issue.
I only use the email registered on XDA for XDA forums. Received a Spam email to that email about 12 minutes ago.
I'd like to help make sure this doesn't continue to happen as I don't appreciate receiving spam.
Greetings
It has come to our attention that your account is involved in illegal transactions. As you may not be aware of, this conflicts with the EULA and Terms of Agreement.
Terms of Use: (http://www.worldofwarcraft.com/legal/termsofuse.html).
It will be ongoing for further investigation by Blizzard Entertainment's employees.
If you wish to not get your account suspended you should immediately verify your account ownership.
You must complete the steps below to secure the account and your computer.
STEP 1: ACCOUNT INVESTIGATION
We now provide a secure website for you to verify that you have taken the appropriate steps to secure the account, your computer, and your email address.
Click on the link below to verify your e-mail address of the Battle.net account:
https://www.battle.net/account/d3/login-support.html
If you can’t click the link above, copy and paste the entire URL into your browser.
STEP 2: VERIFY YOUR SUBMISSION WAS RECEIVED
We will contact you with further instructions once we have received and processed your submission. If you do not receive a reply within 48 hours of submitting this form, please resend it from the address listed above.
Please be aware that if unauthorized access to this account, it may lead to further action against the account.
We understand that these policies may seem harsh, but they are in place to ensure that every player is able to enjoy their time in game. Thank you for respecting our position.
Please do not reply to this email as you will receive an automated response.
Regards,
Thary
Account Administration Team
Blizzard Entertainment 2012
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I got the same one a few days ago.
There was a topic on this before recently too.
If Pulser or any of the Admins want, I can forward the email on to them.
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Just another guy from Potato Land™...
I also use an email address here that is used nowhere else, and got the same fake Blizzard account spam. The email came from an IP in China. I would have to assume the forum's email addresses have been compromised.
Anything?
One of the admins mentioned in a previous thread about this that they're trying to find the source of the problem, but they're confident that there's been no breach of personal data or that the system has been comprised at any point.
''Evil corrupts the mind of the weak but fails to feed off the mind of the strong''
Here is the "official" thread on the subject:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1835116
An administrator there says, "We feel that there are enough of these to indicate that at some point in the past there was some sort of information disclosure which exposed these email accounts."
Hi guys,
recently I am having these Delivery Status Notification (Delay) mails flooding my inbox
and all of them are from XDA. How can I get it to stop?
TIA!
noobhero said:
Hi guys,
recently I am having these Delivery Status Notification (Delay) mails flooding my inbox
and all of them are from XDA. How can I get it to stop?
TIA!
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Try shooting a PM to an admin (try @svetius), you're much more likely to get help that way.
thanks mate, i'll park for a while and see if they reply. ")
You can try contacting an admin.
vanessaem said:
You can try contacting an admin.
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Thank you, will do..
Please post the header of the emails so we can see where they are coming from. You shouldn't be getting anything like this from XDA unless you are sending emails to us to emails that don't exist.
We'll need the headers of the email in the body of the emails you are getting, and the headers of the email you are receiving.
It is also possible these are spoofed mails of some sort.
hi sir, the type of emails, and spam mails are as followed.
Delivery Status Notification (Failure)
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
[email protected]
Technical details of permanent failure:
The recipient server did not accept our requests to connect. Learn more at http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?answer=7720
[(0) doubleshot.php.va.us.xda-developers.com. [2604:9a00:2010:a080::1500]:25: socket error]
[(0) doubleshot.php.va.us.xda-developers.com. [207.244.72.15]:25: socket error]
----- Original message -----
DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed;
d=gmail.com; s=20120113;
h=to:from:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references:subject:mime-version
:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition
recedence:auto-submitted;
bh=/K1K4POLYAOVqwQFWyc/FLbNxQSDftC2naliJo5vomg=;
b=K8Sa5BmULLw8lB1qhbbycbE53GlhUjbrD+XjJXkkBm0HSBnTk+rLlVkypvWAEPu2+I
lQKZ2SIbi5mfsriKNw012NbJ9v4b6LxVSbKMqB/QIf+yNLr4JNamAE/BDy89uRL0/yY7
X3B3wBMwN38ZbIQFN3AVeGq/4w97l+ZHGFCLPK5rkat+Typ3GSg98qesKqSpidX2hneP
cCYwXA4zFZCFiKtrwESsawJx3DKZYxDP8qgFCrb63hPrVIta9aubS0rFtq+TVbXGCRt/
yccu5onfspdnPfn9pZIhYKPYd99dAesRo3U7rTH3ANIi+DYAMLQ2kj7hstXs+OX9vKEa
Gq0w==
X-Received: by 10.220.124.4 with SMTP id s4mr9017457vcr.38.1414954541964;
Sun, 02 Nov 2014 10:55:41 -0800 (PST)
To: [email protected]
From: "MY NAME AND EMAIL
Date: Sun, 2 Nov 2014 10:55:41 -0800
Message-ID: <[email protected]om>
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Reply to thread '[APP][4.0+] Nova Launcher'
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Precedence: bulk
X-Autoreply: yes
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
----- End of message -----
the reciepents are usually different. some examples are
www@saga.php.va.us.xda-developers.com
www@vision.php.va.us.xda-developers.com
www@supersonic.web.va.us.xda-developers.com
www@magic.php.va.us.xda-developers.com
bump up for @bitpushr
Emails from our servers for new replies are sent from [email protected].
There is a return path for the server... Return-Path: <[email protected]>, which changes depending on which server sends. However, these are not valid email addresses as these servers do not accept email.
Due to the following headers:
Code:
X-Autoreply: yes
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
it seems like you have some sort of auto reply or a vacation away message set up that is automatically responding to these emails at the wrong address. Do you have something like that set up on your account?
bitpushr said:
Emails from our servers for new replies are sent from [email protected].
There is a return path for the server... Return-Path: <[email protected]>, which changes depending on which server sends. However, these are not valid email addresses as these servers do not accept email.
Due to the following headers:
Code:
X-Autoreply: yes
Auto-Submitted: auto-replied
it seems like you have some sort of auto reply or a vacation away message set up that is automatically responding to these emails at the wrong address. Do you have something like that set up on your account?
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Oh my gosh!!
I've totally overlooked that.
Thank you so much @bitpushr for the help..
It was really a pain to deal with those mails....
I had accidentally turned on the vacation responder.
Hi all,
Suddenly I have stopped receiving email notifications for subscribed threads. I think my email provider maybe the cause.
Rather then wait for someone to reply to a thread that I'm subscribed to is there a way to send an email from xda-developers? Like changing something is ones profile or sending self a private message etc?
TIA
Greg
ghines said:
Hi all,
Suddenly I have stopped receiving email notifications for subscribed threads. I think my email provider maybe the cause.
Rather then wait for someone to reply to a thread that I'm subscribed to is there a way to send an email from xda-developers? Like changing something is ones profile or sending self a private message etc?
TIA
Greg
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This actually happened to me once as well. What worked for me as a quick solution was to create another gmail account for xda.