Site update - update passwords

x posts, Lara, I'm sorted thanks!

I cannot put another password into my life. I just can't.

I read somewhere on mumsnet, that the people who have got hacked and had their passwords hacked into, the hacker can see the persons' postcode. Not sure if that is true or not.

Not sure why that would matter, soontobe. Sometimes hundreds of houses share the same postcode.

You seem to be determined to spread alarm and panic!

Mine is 8 houses Ana

54 share my postcode.

Plus I am trying to persuade jingl and others that it might be a good idea to do it.
As I posted on the other thread last week, I dont think I need to as I have a seperate email and password just for gransnet, as I am aware that hackers like to target mumsnet.
And there was a thread only yesterday, concerning Facebook, that showed that posters can get upset by this type of thing.

How could they deduce a postcode from a password unless the account that had been hacked had the owners name, address and postcode listed on it? If it were, they would have not only the postcode but the entire address, right down to the house number and the note "If no-one is in, leave deliveries in the open conservatory at the back" - from which they could break into the house unobserved.

I think anyone hacking in to get a password is more interested in what they can gain from knowing that password than in exactly where the owner lives.

True probably, on all of that.

I think I'm going to use 'nasty little hacker' as my new favourite expletive!!

I'm revisiting Gransnet after a long time away, so have just created a brand new password.

Lara

Just reset my password, no problems at all.

I too was sorry to read in today's Daily Mail Justines story.

I hope both she and her family are OK. Horrible experience.

DH's gran had two useful sayings, one of which was They're not all locked up.

We are not likely to be targeted by a hard done by (in their opinion) Dads' group.

Don't know what's the matter with GN this evening, it keeps becoming 'unavailable'...

For me too.

They are coming I tell you...!

They have been under attack on mumsnet again this afternoon.
I dont know if that made any difference to getting onto this site or not.

It is such an utter mess over on the mumsnet site, that I am going to log out until it is sorted.

You should be in bed anyway, soontobe!

No, soontobe! You must stay over there and help them to sort it out.

You would never desert them in their hour of need, would you?

Don't go to bed. You are needed.

I think soon is worried about infestation! By viruses or Angry Dads...

I'm not surprised this has happened to Mumsnet. For years Mumsnetters have been very ready to urge each other to leave rocky marriages, rather than work at it. Only a matter of time before cast-off dads started hating the site.

That's not to say I agree with what they are doing. Just not that surprised.

Lara I changed my password for Gransnet earlier - so how come I just managed to log in when I absentmindedly used my old one?

I have re-done it and it seems to be sorted now again