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  • SFWA personal member data leaked

    From Gary McGath@21:1/5 to All on Sat May 21 20:13:30 2022
    File 770 reports that someone using SFWA login credentials has scooped
    up member data, including "email, telephone, websites, social media
    accounts, and mailing addresses." and published it in an unspecified
    place. Only information which members chose to share was leaked, and the article says it didn't include any confidential or financial data.

    The information could be used for harassment, spam, impersonation, or
    targeted phishing. Members have been advised to change their SWFA password.

    https://file770.com/sfwa-members-only-directory-info-exposed/

    --
    Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com

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  • From Someone Else@21:1/5 to Gary McGath on Sun May 22 11:58:58 2022
    In Message-ID:<t6bv7c$3hg$1@dont-email.me>,
    Gary McGath <garym@REMOVEmcgathREMOVE.com> wrote:

    File 770 reports that someone using SFWA login credentials has scooped
    up member data, including "email, telephone, websites, social media
    accounts, and mailing addresses." and published it in an unspecified
    place. Only information which members chose to share was leaked, and the >article says it didn't include any confidential or financial data.

    The information could be used for harassment, spam, impersonation, or >targeted phishing. Members have been advised to change their SWFA password.

    https://file770.com/sfwa-members-only-directory-info-exposed/

    If a SFWA member did it, chances are no laws were broken. But that
    doesn't preclude SFWA penalties (nor fan reactions).

    Proper logs may make it possible (or even easy) to trace this to the
    account which hoovered the data. Then comes the tricky part of
    figuring out if it was the member or a cracker. Finding the identity
    of a cracker could be anywhere from trivial to impossible.

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