Phishing attack claiming to be Opengameart
Hi,
I've just had an email claiming to be from here about my account being disabled for suspicious activity that seems to be a phishing scam. Just wondering if they've got my email from here or if it's just a lucky guess...
Anyway, thought people should be on the look out.
On the off chance it's geniune... well I suppose I'd like to know what I need to do (though I really doubt it is geniune)
Here's the text of the email (minus the dodgy link at the end, just so no one accidentally clicks it)
___________________________________
Your Acount is disabled for the purposes of security
Dear Customer., While the audit team is reviewing your Acount,
they discovery strange activity or deceptive or fraudulent and based upon,
The team disable access to your Acount until your review for this strange activity and respond to it
What is the problem in detail?
1. You have more than one Peypal with a negative balance; or
2. You provided information that we believe was false, inaccurate, or misleading; or
3. You sent or received money that was potentially related to fraudulent activity; or
4. You are in violation of the User Agreement, the Commercial Entity
Agreement, the Acceptable Use Policy, or another agreement you have with us.
What is the solution?
To resolve this issue, you must log on to the site of the page devoted to verify
which is attached at the bottom of linked
and write your lnformation in a full
Thank you for give us your time
Apologize for any annoying
Kind regards
17/11/2015 03:40:06
I got this as well, to an email address that was unique to my account here on opengameart.com. In other words, someone got into opengameart's server and extracted at least a bunch of email addresses.
I got it too. Everyone change your passwords! The server has definitely been hacked, and this does not appear to be the first time...
I did a search on the server's ip address and found that it was hacked most recently in June 2015 or earlier. That hack is still there! Open link at your own risk: http://dnd.opengameart.org/memberal.php
I also got this. It was sent about 1 hour ago.
Yes, I got one too. This is the only account I have attached to this email (I lost access to my usual game related account) and the first time I've used it.
@andmyman404: Where are you searching for this stuff? That sounds useful.
I searched Duck Duck Go for the server's IP address. The first real hit was this: http://www.leetsmirror.com/ip_199.180.155.30.html
It says that hacker Memberal_Force hit the server back in June. I don't know if it is the same thing that caused today's email spam though.
Now that opengameart.org is back online, it looks like that Memberal_Force thing been cleaned up at least.
Very helpful information. I was unable to access the site this afternoon around 4:30pm EST, but I did not receive any emails. Will be updating passwords nonetheless.
My friend has informed me that the email he used exclusively to submit to the LPC has also received spam, so clearly they did get access to some restricted info (if that wasn't already obvious).
I got this email too.. Sooo shall i just ignore this?