Recently we have received a couple of reports from customers who have been receiving spam on email addresses that they use exclusively for their abbywinters.com accounts.
We have traced the leak to a breach earlier this year in the 3rd-party software we use for these discussion boards. The nature of the vulnerability was such that members' email addresses could have been exposed to attackers. We were aware of the breach when it occurred and repaired the vulnerability immediately. However, at that time it was not clear whether the attackers had been successful in acquiring any email addresses.
We recommend that those of you who have email address that you set up specifically for use with your abbywinters.com account should switch to a new email address and close your current ones.
As a further measure to prevent further such incidents, we will soon remove email addresses from all forum accounts that are not subscribed to any threads. If you are not already subscribed to any forum threads and you wish to use the thread subscription feature in future, you will need to add your email address to your forum profile, which you can do here.
We are also bringing forward plans already in place to unify the main site and forum logins.
We have traced the leak to a breach earlier this year in the 3rd-party software we use for these discussion boards. The nature of the vulnerability was such that members' email addresses could have been exposed to attackers. We were aware of the breach when it occurred and repaired the vulnerability immediately. However, at that time it was not clear whether the attackers had been successful in acquiring any email addresses.
We recommend that those of you who have email address that you set up specifically for use with your abbywinters.com account should switch to a new email address and close your current ones.
As a further measure to prevent further such incidents, we will soon remove email addresses from all forum accounts that are not subscribed to any threads. If you are not already subscribed to any forum threads and you wish to use the thread subscription feature in future, you will need to add your email address to your forum profile, which you can do here.
We are also bringing forward plans already in place to unify the main site and forum logins.
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