To my knowledge, the list hasn't been hacked, nor has anyone subscribed and sent phishing attempts through the list. It is being mirrored/archived via Nabble and a couple of others, I believe, which may be the source of the email harvesting.
Larry Hiscock Moderator -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Porter Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 5:28 AM To: U2 Users List Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked I was about to mention that... his email address appears in 3+ dozen pages in google. So unless there's some other evidence, I'm not worrying about the list being hacked. Robert >>> George Gallen <[email protected]> 4/19/2011 7:26 AM >>> not to mention that the list is on search engines as well.... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:u2-users- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Jeffrey Butera > Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 7:27 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [U2] Mailing List Hacked > > On 04/19/2011 07:22 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I just received a phishing attack addressed to my U2 Mailing list > > email address. > > That doesn't mean the list was "hacked" (eg: found a way to scrape > addresses from the outside). Anyone can join the list, harvest email > from it and then use it for bad things. I've seen this before on other > high-traffic lists I'm on. > > > -- > Jeffrey Butera > Manager of ERP Systems > Hampshire College > 413-559-5556 > > _______________________________________________ > U2-Users mailing list > [email protected] > http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users _______________________________________________ U2-Users mailing list [email protected] http://listserver.u2ug.org/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
