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WARNING: WatchUSeek / Watchtalkforums owner Verticalscope Hacked

  1. dsio Ω 2

    dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jun 15, 2016

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    http://motherboard.vice.com/en_ca/r...ith-over-40-million-passwords-from-1000-sites

    This is quite serious, according to the article VerticalScope are keeping rather quiet on it at the moment and not telling the press very much, which is understandable given the potential legal problems involved as you can see in the quote from the WuS thread at the bottom of this post.

    http://forums.watchuseek.com/f530/attention-password-security-update-3303954.html

    In this thread WuS have forced a full password reset of all WatchUSeek users, which means its likely one of the sites that has been hacked. If you are currently doing a watch deal through Watchuseek, I would suggest you take EXTREME care as you could be dealing with someone who appears to be a legitimate member but is having their account used by a scammer.

    This problem gets bigger as I know many of our members have accounts on WatchUSeek, Watchtalkforums, and probably also use the same password from those sites on Omegaforums. As a result we extremely strongly recommend that anyone with accounts on both consider their password potentially compromised and change their password where ever it is used (Including but not limited to Paypal, eBay, and your email account). If you don’t re-use passwords or use different passwords for different sites that’s fine but you should still change your password on all VerticalScope owned sites, which are not limited to watches but also encompass a huge number of car, motorcycle and other hobby sites.

    I’m sticking this as its extremely serious, and everyone needs to take serious care when dealing with money or watches online at the moment until this settles down which could take some time as we still don’t have a whole lot of information from the company. The last reply from Verticalscope on WuS is the following:

     
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  2. ulackfocus

    ulackfocus Jun 15, 2016

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    Phew, glad I'm banned there! :eek: :D:D:D:D
     
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  3. dsio Ω 2

    dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jun 15, 2016

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    Banned or not your account(s) are still there, both WatchUSeek and Watchtalkforums as is the password hash.
     
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  4. Trev Ω 2

    Trev The Architect Staff Member Jun 15, 2016

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    Shit, what a mess. RIP VerticalScope.
     
  5. dougiedude Ω 1

    dougiedude Carpe horologium! Jun 15, 2016

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    I just visited WUS, and didn't get any 'notifications' regarding this. I changed my password anyway.

    I get over there so very rarely now, but eventually, I'll need to sell off a few micro-brands on their site... that is, if it survives the hack House caving in!.gif
     
  6. oddboy

    oddboy Zero to Grail+2998 In Six Months Jun 15, 2016

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    thanks for the info. sux to see another Toronto company take a hit.
     
  7. OMGRLX

    OMGRLX a RolexBear in disguise Jun 15, 2016

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    Btw, if anyone here has a twitter account, even if dormant, ditto-change pw asap!
     
  8. leetse2

    leetse2 Jun 15, 2016

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    Wow, just changed all my passwords, thanks for the heads up.
     
  9. noelekal Ω 2

    noelekal Home For Wayward Watches Jun 15, 2016

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  10. WatchVaultNYC

    WatchVaultNYC Jun 16, 2016

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    Thats why VerticalScope keeps calling.
     
  11. Jonatan

    Jonatan Jun 16, 2016

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    I got an e-mail from my University yesterday referring to this hack. Is not limited to VK as you can see below. Reading the article, it says that it was data stolen in 2012 that is now for sale on the web.

    They highly suggest that I change all of my passwords.

    "Nous avons reçu des informations importantes concernant votre compte
    email. Celui-ci se trouve parmi les adresses dans les fuites
    récentes de données de sites comme LinkedIn, MySpace, Tumblr, Twitter,
    VK, etc.    Vous trouverez plus d'information concernant ces fuites en
    suivant ce lien:
    [http://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/articl...inkedin-pirates-a-vendre_4921784_4408996.html]."
     
  12. dsio Ω 2

    dsio Ash @ ΩF Staff Member Jun 16, 2016

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    That's a separate hack, the VS data supposedly came from Feb or March this year from memory.
     
  13. Jonatan

    Jonatan Jun 16, 2016

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    Apologies::facepalm1::
     
  14. flw Ω 2

    flw history nerd Jun 16, 2016

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    I received a password change notification from Netflix last night. I have no idea if it's related, but it was legit and Netflix customer service said it's related to a mass hack of some kind that potentially compromised all of their accounts. Just a heads up.
     
  15. ulackfocus

    ulackfocus Jun 16, 2016

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    Man, when I was young "hacking" meant you were coughing like crazy or a bad golfer. But then again, there were only two types of water back then also: "tap" and "hose".
     
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  16. Mr Bing

    Mr Bing Jun 16, 2016

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    ....and when I were a lad 'hacks' were cough sweets/candy.

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  17. glownyc

    glownyc Jun 16, 2016

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    Verticalscope has lots of sites. Might want to change passwords if you go to any of these. It's a really long list.

    Hobbies & Collectibles Web Sites
    Technology Web Sites
    Home Improvement Web Sites
     
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    glownyc Jun 16, 2016

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    glownyc Jun 16, 2016

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