AIM normalizes passwords - were your new passwords variants of old passwords using non-alphanumerics or changes in capitalization?
On Tue, March 14, 2006 1:02 pm, Jeff Britton, Monitored Security said: > Has anyone else even noticed that (at least in the older versions) you can > use previous passwords to login? As of right now, I can log into my AIM > account with 3 different passwords...was wondering if anyone else noticed > this too? > > -----Original Message----- > From: CISO [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:34 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Possible AIM Hack? > > > > The new edition of AIM has this issue because the product is still > technically in BETA. > > The older edition of AIM typically doesn't have this problem. > > Remember that AIM is a free service so there are no real SLAs to end > users unless you are using the enterprise edition of AIM. > > The inability to log on (authenticate) or create new accounts is because > that piece is controlled from the same mechanism (servers). > > James > > On 14 Mar 2006 15:57:03 -0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >> Here is the gist of what happened: >> >> March 8th, while using AIM, it logs me off. When I try to log back in, >> it tells me my password is incorrect. When I try to rest the password, >> I >> receive no password rest message. It is as if the hack changes the >> account e-mail at the same time to prevent password rest. Lastly, I >> went >> to create a new AIM account -- but without success. The error message >> tells me that the service is temporarily unavailable. I tried from >> several computers, and from different places, to no avail. As of 09:11 >> CST (-6GMT) AIM will still not allow new accounts to be set up. >> >> I haven't seen any news from any source about an AIM hack, but I have >> heard anecdotally from my college aged kids that several of their >> friends >> were also affected around the same time period and most have not been >> able to establish new AIM accounts. >> >> Is any one else seeing any kind of similar activity/results surrounding >> AIM? Or am I just a victim of a series of unfortunate events? >> >> Thanks >
