There might currently be a security breach on EAforum. Please don’t share sensitive information, especially names or contact information, until the situation is resolved.
Forum dev here. The author of this comment has privately communicated to me that they believe someone is creating fraudulent Forum accounts. If someone DM’s you, please consider that they might be a journalist looking to quote you uncharitably, a scammer trying to get personal information, etc.
We have no evidence that we have suffered a breach of our security in the traditional sense of the word (e.g. database being hacked).
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There might currently be a security breach on EAforum. Please don’t share sensitive information, especially names or contact information, until the situation is resolved.
Forum dev here. The author of this comment has privately communicated to me that they believe someone is creating fraudulent Forum accounts. If someone DM’s you, please consider that they might be a journalist looking to quote you uncharitably, a scammer trying to get personal information, etc.
We have no evidence that we have suffered a breach of our security in the traditional sense of the word (e.g. database being hacked).
How do you know this? Also what kind of information would be sensitive on an public forum anyway?