And of course some of those emails look to be from a trusted source
but those sources were very likely to have been compromised. So best bet
is, if it looks and smells fishy, it is.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
[email protected]
On 9/12/2014 10:54 AM, Todd W wrote:
It's certainly better to be safe than sorry. If an e-mail looks fishy,
even if it's from an address you know, it probaly is...
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 1:07 PM, The Believer <[email protected]>
wrote:
Deleting spam without further ado is safe.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
[email protected]
On 9/12/2014 9:48 AM, Eleanor Roberts wrote:
Very interesting to read all the different points on this. But just one
question, as someone who opened the e-mail but did not follow the link or
go onto the website or anything will I have exposed any of my information
to these potential hackers or not?? Just a bit concerned I may've done
something very stupid by even opening the e-mail. Any thoughts from those
of you far more experienced than me most welcome/appreciated.
Thanks.
Eleanor
Sent from my iPad
On 12 Sep 2014, at 17:24, Todd W <[email protected]> wrote:
Actually this one seems to be true. This leak has been reported by
several news outlets in the past several days.
Todd
On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 10:53 AM, The Believer <
[email protected]> wrote:
No, emails like this are never legit, never.
From The Believer. . .
. . . what if it were true?
[email protected]
On 9/11/2014 11:29 PM, Eleanor Roberts wrote:
Hi Andrew
I had exactly the same e-mail. I haven't tried the website, but share
your concerns completely. Could anyone else who is more in the know than
me please confirm if this was legit or not?? As with Andrew, I too am
worried that I may have revealed my address to a hacker.
Thanks.
Eleanor
Sent from my iPad
On 12 Sep 2014, at 06:25, Andrew Lamanche <[email protected]> wrote:
Listers,
I think it was yesterday or the day before that I found among the
messages from the list an e-mail containing a warning of a possible leak of
e-mail addresses from gmail. The messaged contained instructions on how to
check whether one's e-mail was possibly compromised or not. The website to
go to was is leaked.com.
As I saw no reference to this by any other member of the group, I now
wonder whether it was spam. Has anyone else received this warning? Is the
website isleaked.com genuine? I connected to it to check my e-mail
address. It opened in Russian and from there there was a link to the US
version and Spanish version and possibly others as well. I now worry that
the whole thing was spam and I may have revealed my address to a hacker.
I'd be very grateful to hear whether anyone else has been notified by
this e-mail of a possible theft of millions of gmail addresses.
Thank you.
Andrew
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