Over the next few days we will be implementing some changes to our forum password strength and password expiration policies. To make sure you continue having the best experience possible on the community, we regularly monitor the site and the Internet to keep everyone's account information safe. We've recently become aware of a potential risk to some accounts coming from outside of this community. Just to be safe, we are implementing the following changes to improve security even further:
1) We are asking everyone to change their passwords (and will force a one time reset). Along with every user on the forum, new passwords will need to be more complex, and can't be simple words (sorry, you can't have "fluffy" as your password anymore!). Please use a password unique to this community. Reusing passwords can expose your account indirectly when other websites (Twitter, Linkedin, Badoo, etc) are compromised; and
2) Your passwords will expire on a 365 day basis. When you login on the 366th day, you will have to change it.
We'll also be sending out an email to users to let them know about the changes, in upcoming weeks.
Would have appreciated notification about this hack in a more straightforward manner from VS. At least my financial passwords are incredibly Byzantine and wholly unrelated to this site.
Over the next few days we will be implementing some changes to our forum password strength and password expiration policies. To make sure you continue having the best experience possible on the community, we regularly monitor the site and the Internet to keep everyone's account information safe. We've recently become aware of a potential risk to some accounts coming from outside of this community. Just to be safe, we are implementing the following changes to improve security even further:
1) We are asking everyone to change their passwords (and will force a one time reset). Along with every user on the forum, new passwords will need to be more complex, and can't be simple words (sorry, you can't have "fluffy" as your password anymore!). Please use a password unique to this community. Reusing passwords can expose your account indirectly when other websites (Twitter, Linkedin, Badoo, etc) are compromised; and
2) Your passwords will expire on a 365 day basis. When you login on the 366th day, you will have to change it.
We'll also be sending out an email to users to let them know about the changes, in upcoming weeks.
To make sure you continue having the best experience possible on the community, we regularly monitor the site and the Internet to keep everyone's account information safe. We've recently become aware of a potential risk to some accounts coming from outside of this community. Just to be safe, we are implementing the following changes to improve security even further:
@Administrator excuse me if I'm coming across paranoid here, but I think this security breach posted by another user here is extreme enough to warrant further explanation from VS themselves than just "it's a potential risk":
The article fails to mention that the breach was for a third party plugin. This breach is on countless sites across the internet and not just limited to ours.
Their system was compromised and they grabbed user data for us and thousands of others. We cleared our part of the breach and went this route to further security. This is also in place as many members on the internet use the same or similar passwords across all things they use.
We cannot go into detail at the moment as it is being dealt with on a legal level.
If and when you do get an email your password will be reset again and you'll have to change it again I think. What I've been led to believe anyway.
I changed mine today but was told to just wait for the email as I'd have to change it again anyway after I receive that. They had a crash on their server so all the emails havn't been sent out yet. Apparently.
Yeah a lot of people, including me, havn't received their email yet. VS said their server crashed whilst trying to sending them all out so they are fixing that atm, we should get them at some point this week. Wait until you get that email before changing your password as that email will reset your current one anyway.
Many thanks @Headliner for fixing my junk, and to all the staff having to do all this to make up for VerticalScope's lapses. Fortunately the password I used on this site was unique anyway.
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