Not really a security issue, all that has happened is someone has signed up to Facebook (in the past linked-in as well) and they have put their personal email address in the site as [email protected] for some unbeknownst reason. This basically spams the mailing list with welcome to facebook emails and friend requests that the user should have received to their personal email address, then someone here has decided to stop it by going in and requesting a password reset (thereby getting the persons password and deleting the account). Other issues may occur when someone tells the varing facebook plugins to invite all their contacts to facebook, thus sending an invite to the auto-created [email protected] contact, but this will just be a friend request/invite to join facebook.
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 3:53 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > For what it's worth, several others received that Facebook bumph; some > several times. > > I don't know what it means, or how it happened. My own reaction was to > ignore (ie., delete) it. > > I suppose I should be concerned about it; presumably it means that some > part of SLUG's security has been compromised. Against this, I remind > myself that the subject matters of SLUG are not the things of which > Gunpowder, Treason and Plot are made. > > Anybody else have any thoughts? > > Regards, > > William Bennett. > > > > > I received this email also. What does it mean? > > > > Jill > > > > > > On 2011-01-03 13:43, Harrison Ghys (T.C) wrote: > >> On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 1:10 PM, Facebook > >> <[email protected]<password%[email protected]>> > wrote: > >>> Hi Sidney, > >>> > >>> You recently asked to reset your Facebook password. To complete your > >>> request, please follow this link: > >>> > >>> > https://login.facebook.com/recover.php?n=kPDQtNELy&id=100000141148643&s=100 > >>> > >>> Alternately, you may go to https://login.facebook.com/recover.php and > >>> enter the following confirmation code: > >>> > >>> kPDQtNELy > >>> > >>> Please note: for your protection, a copy of this email has been sent to > >>> all the email addresses associated with your Facebook account. > >>> > >>> If you did not request a new password, you may disregard this message > >>> or visit our Help Center at > >>> http://login.facebook.com/help/?topic=password_reset to learn more. > >>> > >>> Thanks, > >>> The Facebook Team > >>> > >>> -- > >>> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > >>> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > >>> > >> I don't trust or appreciate the etiquette, morale or vibe of this list > >> any longer. > >> So long SLUG. It's been a good 7 years. > > > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
