Per the latest announcements we will be resetting everyone's passwords. Shortly you should be receiving an email directing you how to change your password. It will look like this:
Your password has been reset by an administrator. Your new details are as follows:
Username: *username*
Password: *Randomly generated temp password*
To change your password, please visit this page: *link to password reset edit page from USERCP*
If you suspect this email is a scam, you can confirm the legitimacy of this email by manually navigate to the forum URL yourself and use your new password to log in.
I understand that you are probably extremely overwhelmed with having to deal with an issue that you are not really equipped to handle but is there any idea of when this email will be sent out?
We wanted to give you an update on the reset password emails that went out yesterday. Due to the high volume of emails going out and some service providers blocking them as spam, users have either been getting them late, or not at all. If you have not received your password reset email please use the password reset function "forgot password". These emails will go through a paid provider and should show up instantly.
To do so just go to log in >> once it redirects you click forgot password >> follow the steps provided.
If you do not remember the email address associated with your account you can use the contact us tab at the bottom of the page to email us for assistance. Please select the "other" option and add subject "security password issues"
We apologize for any disruption this has caused to your forum experience.
I must be behind the 8-ball, because I missed the announcement. Where can we go to see the announcement and any others in the future? In this particular case I'm specifically interested in learning what precipitated such an extreme move. Was JF or its parent company hacked? Or something else?
Deacon, a LARGE number of forum/websites were hacked, most of which are owned by the same parent companies.
See the article link below.
Visitors to many popular car, sports and tech websites including VWVortex, The Truth About Cars, Pirate 4x4, Focus Fanatics, EvoXForums, and AutoGuide should change their passwords ASAP, reports ZDNet. 45 million accounts hosted on VerticalScope's 1,100 sites have been compromised by hackers.
I FINALLY got to reset my password.... Now my new issue is, anytime I click a topic, as I did to come to this topic after logging in, I have to RE-log in to reply......
The requirement of 10 characters I don't mind, but they're really sticking it to their users when requiring one of ALL of the various characters (upper, lower, numerals, specials). And they don't say how long the passwords can be, the limit, only the minimum. Ugh.
I strongly recommend everyone consider using something like mSecure or LastPass to securely keep track of passwords and generate new complex ones for each different site.
They should require that you reset your password on first login so that it's only a temporary password. Or really, the proper way to do it is a one-time URL that validates your email and prompts you to choose a new password.
But it's a Jeep forum, not your bank info. If your email is hacked you have bigger things to worry about than your login on JF probably
This is a huge PITA! I had to create a whole new account because I never got the email,couldn't use the email address I originally used to sign up on here, was never redirected to the "forgot password" screen. I've tried the various steps that have been put out to reset my password...nada. I would rather just be able to use my old account than have to redo everything...ugh.
yeah, it was not handled well at all. They could've and should've simply required you to change your password on next login if they were that worried about it. Or maybe don't ignore their responsibility to keep their software updated, use HTTPS, and protect their customers' info.
Okay, I reset and after multiple attempts, I am here. Now, how do I REMOVE all the OLD Login Names and PSWDS that were created by default to get HERE?
Before the change, I could click on my name and I'd get ONE name and ONE passwords. Easy!
Can I get my original account back please Bill8Bud? I have not received an email to reset my password and my email for the site may be diffrent since I signed up awhile ago. I have sent various request for help and any help will be appreciated.
I ended up deleting my Cache files (Mac) and going into the System Preferences (Safari) and deleting ALL duplicate password keys for JF in the "PASSWORDS" tab.
After restart, I logged in to this JF site and entered my user name and NEW password. (clicked the "Remember Me" box) - It seems to be doing fine now.
As I stated above; on my system, it was conflicting with my previous passwords.
Go to your homepage preferences and remove the previous SAVED keys.
RESTART!
If you still experience issues, REPAIR PERMISSIONS!
I'm not pleased with this, at all. Being forced to use all the various characters changes my password into something that I'll never remember. That's how accounts get lost. It isn't my bank information, for christ sakes.
Trying to reregister and now it's saying e-mail is already in use. If I put in another e-mail address, can I change it back to my old one once I'm back in?
I do not [post much here and I have gone through the channels of changing my password via that link but for the life of me I cannot seem to change it again?????
I never got any email to reset, and when I go to the reset password page, it is telling me that my email is not recognized... which as you know... or dont know..., does not allow me to go any further down the support chain... I have a feeling after reading some of this, that I'll be out for a while... or have to start a new profile.
Got to ask... As a tech company, you never contingency plan for things? Just winging it? Sitting back and collecting ad rev? Also your use of ads on the "prove you are a human" thing is maddeningly annoying.
Wait... I just logged in today and now see a message that passwords will be reset (again?!) between 21 and 23rd?! I JUST got a password that is long as **** that matches all the now requirements... and i have to do it again?!
Relax people, that message was intended for those who have not yet reset their passwords. For those of us who have already reset our password this past week we will not have to do it again.
I like that in the notice they finally posted publicly at http://www.verticalscope.com/about-us/notice-of-data-breach.html they seem to put the onus on users, implementing extreme and draconian new password policies even banks and PayPal and such don't have. They make it sound like it was their users that caused the problem. And they make no mention of actually updating their often outdated (and thus vulnerable) forum software for their thousand+ sites or their infrastructure design behind it or any other strategy to stop hacks in the first place, only increasing detection once hacks have already taken place and maybe trying to keep hacked data encrypted better. It's very frustrating.
so I cant get into my old account because I dont even know what email I used 8 years ago when I started here.. I sent a question to someone on here but have not gotten an answer back as of yet on what to do...have I lost my old account and are forced to use this one because of the breach or is there another way to get to my old account?
I switched the email addresses between your two accounts so your old account now has the new email, and then I sent you a password reset notification that should allow you to regain access.
Let me know how it goes and sorry about all the confusion.
Well, after two weeks or so fighting with this I was finally able to get my password reset. I've never had any issues with 67-72chevytrucks.com or RCGroups.com, or any other forum. Oh well, I guess that it's a small price to pay when a website gets upgraded and hacked. :wink2:
Nothing to do with the upgrade, and dont kid yourself, if you have a VB site with the plug in we had on it (which looks like you do) then you are in jeopardy of getting hacked. The upgrade we did to this site is actually safer. A third party plug in is what caused it.
Helena
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