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We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

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We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

2 years 6 months ago
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Since April our members have been receiving ransom emails. from someone/ group who appeared to have hacked the server.

None of us kept the email thus no information is available.

However, none us want to use the Website until assure it is clean.

Looking for advice on what to do and next steps.


Anton 

 
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Re: We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

2 years 6 months ago
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1) We will always require your club number.
2) Which members?
3) Do you have the email headers so we can see the real source of the emails?
4) Subjects? From email address?

Without the full information there is nothing we can do to even begin to research.
Thank you,

Brian McDonald DTM
Silver and Wiser Online Toastmasters Club #777940

Technical Support Consultant for FreeToastHost
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Re: We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

2 years 6 months ago
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Brian thank you for the quick response:

In answer to your 4 Q
1 Club #1609
2 all members
For 3 and 4 no information - all was deleted as mentioned.

Thanks
Anton
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Re: We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

2 years 6 months ago - 2 years 6 months ago
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For 3 and 4 no information - all was deleted as mentioned.

 
If you didn't 'Delete Forever', headers can be viewed in deleted emails that still reside in gmail's trash.

support.toastmastersclubs.org/doc/item/email-headers
Richard Taylor
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Re: We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

2 years 6 months ago
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Unfortunately, this happened in early April and all of us deleted "forever"
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Re: We have been Hacked and are receiving black mail emails

2 years 6 months ago
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So a thought - how can we easily change our user name - we have moved to a much longer password from the standard.

Or is it not worth changing our admin user name?

Anton.
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