WARNING: Hacking attempt

[Jos Elkink]

l33t? I know many internet terms, but this one I don't

Besides, I didn't mean to say that people should not try to help, of course ... all help / suggestions are appreciated. I only wanted to make clear that we are working on this and, as I said, a few steps further than the above. We could easily have forgotten that step, though, so suggestions are still always welcome.

[Shaderon]

Good luck in getting them. Hackers make me sick, they go on about freedom of the web and they are the ones that are making the web an unsafe place TOO be free. If they didn't hack, the web probably WOULD be free.

[Sho]

The host looks like a dead end - I checked out their service, and it looks like anyone can get a Web site there almost instantly and without giving any personal information.

Looking at the e-mail headers is a good idea. Were the e-mails spoofed (falsified From: address), or were they sent from a real e-mail address? I'd assume spoofing, since that's what most phishers use. In that case the headers should be very useful. If the phisher used an e-mail address he or she actually owns, that would be another starting point.

[Peanut]

The bigger question is where he get's the email adresses.

Probably from the forum.

People should really remove the email adress from their personal information.

[Wolf]

Good luck in getting them. Hackers make me sick, they go on about freedom of the web and they are the ones that are making the web an unsafe place TOO be free. If they didn't hack, the web probably WOULD be free.

Ummmm hackers do other stuff, this was phishing, trying to trick someone into giving out information.
A hacker would not need to trick anyone into giving out information, at the most a hacker would need to trick someone into opening a certain file, or to go to a certain site/webstorage owned by an intended victim, or stuff like that so the hacker would see where he needs to go.
Chances are, though, that who-ever's behind this attempted scam is a scriptkiddy, that's a wanna-be-hacker who thinks that he (or she) is a "|337 |-|4××0|2" just because they found stuff on the internet which helps them to perform some kind of shady acts, which ironically, the true hackers (on both sides on the fence) frown upon.

[Wolf]

The bigger question is where he get's the email adresses.

Probably from the forum.

People should really remove the email adress from their personal information.

Peanut, that might be the case... but also, MySQL isn't exactly the most desirable db where security is concerned... I learnt that myself the hard way about a year ago, cost me two of my websites...
MySQL is to hackers/scriptkiddies what a crackwh[you-know-the-word] is to a crowded bar...

[Peanut]

The bigger question is where he get's the email adresses.

Probably from the forum.

People should really remove the email adress from their personal information.

Peanut, that might be the case... but also, MySQL isn't exactly the most desirable db where security is concerned... I learnt that myself the hard way about a year ago, cost me two of my websites...
MySQL is to hackers/scriptkiddies what a crackwh[you-know-the-word] is to a crowded bar...

Yup...

[Savanik]

l33t? I know many internet terms, but this one I don't

j00 r n0t l33t?!!!1!!1

More seriously: Type in 'l33t' into Google and hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky'. Alternately, visit Wikipedia's 'leet' entry.

p0wN3d!!!

Sav

[Racetyme]

l33t is a geek term for elite Jos.

[Peanut]

I still find 1337 speak very useless.

I'd rather use plain old english...

[formerly known as hf]

l33t? I know many internet terms, but this one I don't

Obviously not been around on the IRC when I'm bored...

The wikipedia entrry on leet is a real fun one - I remember using L337 heavily as a kid - simply because it just looked 'cool'

I still think it looks cool - but in an ironic way...