Lyne opened this issue on Mar 27, 2007 · 35 posts
rty posted Wed, 28 March 2007 at 2:26 PM
This subject was discussed several weeks back (thread title was something like ' Renderosity hacked???
Yes, by me. And I was torn to pieces by people who don't even took the time to understand what the problem was...
Thanks people for chiming in so I don't look like the only one...
Just for the record, I changed 3 times my Renderosity mail address (Those are Renderosity-specific mail adresses on my own domain & servers), and each time it got the same type of spam (scams). I kept those scam mails for forensics.
The other mail addresses of the same domain never recieved any similar scam mail (regular spam gets eliminated on the server, nobody ever sees it - that's why I see scams, scams aren't caught by spam filters).
This means that "something" not only had access to (some/all) peoples' mail addresses, but that it continued doing so for almost a month, since new, freshly created addresses got spammed a short time after being put into service. Cool.
If Renderosity did not sell their client's addresses (which I don't think, there is usually a limit on how stupid you can be), it can only mean some fairly important computer at Renderosity/Bondware has/had a spyware running, which is even worse.
I could have helped (since it's my job), but , oh well, Renderosity got the defenders it deserves.