Woman Shot at Barisone Farm

[trubandloki]

@MorganSercu

Okay - so how do I go about changing my password?

There is a thread Here where the breech is being discussed. Not much information there yet but there is instructions on how to change your password.

[Christa_P]

@Jealoushe

details?

A NEW poster showed up relatively early in thread with some posts about some XXX related behavior with horses and trying to find a job in NJ that allowed for those activities. Quickly banned, then they returned once or twice with new usernames. Apparently the mods manage to permanently block them unless the hack was related.

[x-halt-salute]

@Scribbler

I hesitate to search a name because who knows, if they have nothing that search might trigger their bots to go running to fill in the gap? Also, they may rely on individuals being offended by their wrong information and voluntarily offering corrections which is a genius model of how to grow the data bank.

I don’t think these reputation score sites are that sophisticated. They’ve got some bots scraping public information and aggregating based on name, relationship (probably deduced algorithmically, based on how many errors are in that data), and proximity.

I found reputation score entries for myself when I googled myself during a recent job search to see what prospective employers would see. They knew my address and my name. From that they inferred who my relatives and “associates” (i.e. neighbors) are, and assigned me a score. A score that reflected that some people who share my last name (but happen not to be related) and some who lived then in proximity to me (a category populated entirely by people I have never actually associated with) have debts or arrest records. There’s much better evidence out there for anyone’s reputation, especially someone so forthcoming with public posts as LK!

FWIW, they did try to cajole me into providing updated information when I reached out to them. It took a verbal threat of getting get an attorney involved to get them to remove pages associated with my name without confirming my email or otherwise providing them with any identifying info. But I doubt that they’ve got a sophisticated way to suck up data about anyone who searches on a particular name.

[Christa_P]

@eggbutt

Wow! Of all the forums on COTH, you believe the system was hacked by a banned Dressage Forum person. Gosh, let’s go even further down that rabbit hole and say it was LK, SW, MB or any number of people!! Or, realistically it was some hacker somewhere trolling for sites with forums and hacked in!!!

I’m referring the poster early in the thread with the XXX horse related posts. If you came in late you might have missed that detour :eek::eek: (That’s a good thing - brain bleach would be helpful). I’m just wondering if it’s related.

[trubandloki]

@Christa P

I’m referring the poster early in the with the XXX horse related posts. If you came in late you might have missed that detour :eek::eek:. I’m just wondering if it’s related.

If you read the other thread (I linked above), it is not likely since the issue was not with COTH specifically but the platform the forum is on.

[Callista17]

Did you all pay for the reports?

Edit- I found a free one. Wow, was it WRONG!!! Haha I am ok with that. My income, value of my home, people I am associated with, kids…my personal value- all wrong. Only thing it had correct was my dob and address, and my political affiliation.

[Christa_P]

@trubandloki

If you read the other thread (I linked above), it is not likely since the issue was not with COTH specifically but the platform the forum is on.

I didn’t see that until after I posted.

[Jealoushe]

UGH sorry I asked.

[Angela_Freda]

@trubandloki

If you read the other thread (I linked above), it is not likely since the issue was not with COTH specifically but the platform the forum is on.

The same one that never seems able to spot spam? Ugh.

[vagabondrider]

@rockonxox

It was vbulletin that was hacked (v5+ and wouldn’t you know we are on 5.2.5). Programmers had a hay day with this one. Hopefully our information wasn’t stolen and they were just trying to exploit a vulnerability, but just in case change your passwords and if your email/password combo is used elsewhere never a bad idea to change those too!

I wonder why the whole Chronicle website was down yesterday, not just the forums? Did they shut everything down while they were dealing w/ the vbulletin hack?

[rockonxox]

@vagabondrider

I wonder why the whole Chronicle website was down yesterday, not just the forums? Did they shut everything down while they were dealing w/ the vbulletin hack?

The main site worked, but the forums were rerouting due to the vbulletin hack. COTH shut the whole show down. There was a patch made for vbulletin so I would guess that they shut it down to install the patch.

[vagabondrider]

@rockonxox

The main site worked, but the forums were rerouting due to the vbulletin hack. COTH shut the whole show down. There was a patch made for vbulletin so I would guess that they shut it down to install the patch.

Makes sense. Thanks for explaining! It was down for a long time- they tweeted that was down & then it was 16 hours before they tweeted that the main site was up again.

[eggbutt]

@rockonxox

The main site worked, but the forums were rerouting due to the vbulletin hack. COTH shut the whole show down. There was a patch made for vbulletin so I would guess that they shut it down to install the patch.

I truly appreciate the immediate attention to the resolution! Great job to the COTH techs!

[Mardi]

@TMares

@eggbutt was not being the least bit political @Mardi. She(?) (They?) were making a relevant point, using an example many readers would be aware of with regard to social media and whether it’s potentially going to be used for or against someone, anyone. Insert Bernie Sanders or Bernie Mac if it blows your skirts up.

Like Eggbutt, I also used examples of well known people who had their social media footprint used against them.
The difference is I chose not to name them. Here’s why:
A. they had nothing to do with the shooting
B. the topic was social media, not them
C. they are political figures, and I wanted to keep politics away from this thread.

But my post didn’t sit well with people, and the response was quite substantial.
So in an attempt to get us back to the subject of the thread, I decided to walk away and not continue the conversation. I conceded and left the table.
Lo and behold, now that is a problem, and I’m told what I should have said on my way out.

[MeisterMagnolia]

@Mardi

Like Eggbutt, I also used examples of well known people who had their social media footprint used against them.
The difference is I chose not to name them. Here’s why:
A. they had nothing to do with the shooting
B. the topic was social media, not them
C. they are political figures, and I wanted to keep politics away from this thread.

But my post didn’t sit well with people, and the response was quite substantial.
So in an attempt to get us back to the subject of the thread, I decided to walk away and not continue the conversation. I conceded and left the table.
Lo and behold, now that is a problem, and I’m told what I should have said on my way out.

Just let it go. It’s not like it’s a cover-up or anything.

[TMares]

I’ve never met what I considered to be a functional adult who thought “ok, you win” was a “grown up” response.

[eggbutt]

@Mardi

Like Eggbutt, I also used examples of well known people who had their social media footprint used against them.
The difference is I chose not to name them. Here’s why:
A. they had nothing to do with the shooting
B. the topic was social media, not them
C. they are political figures, and I wanted to keep politics away from this thread.

But my post didn’t sit well with people, and the response was quite substantial.
So in an attempt to get us back to the subject of the thread, I decided to walk away and not continue the conversation. I conceded and left the table.
Lo and behold, now that is a problem, and I’m told what I should have said on my way out.

@Mardi I sincerely apologize for offending you by my use of the name “Trump”. I am far from perfect but I will do my best to make amends somehow, someway. Please accept my apology. Now, can you drop this and move on, please? You win. I (and others) lose. I will try to learn from my despicable error. Okay???

[BunnyHugger]

Guys, the Trump stuff is super boring. I see there’s been a new post and I eagerly check it out hoping for some new info and then find… this nonsense.

Anyway, back to the main topic… I’m too busy to go back and double-check the source, but I thought @tryintogethere told us some new information was going to be announced this week. Tomorrow is Friday soooo???

[tryintogethere]

@BunnyHugger

Guys, the Trump stuff is super boring. I see there’s been a new post and I eagerly check it out hoping for some new info and then find… this nonsense.

Anyway, back to the main topic… I’m too busy to go back and double-check the source, but I thought @tryintogethere told us some new information was going to be announced this week. Tomorrow is Friday soooo???

Nope I did not say that. I do recall someone saying it, but not me!

[AnotherRound]

@eggbutt

Wow! Of all the forums on COTH, you believe the system was hacked by a banned Dressage Forum person. Gosh, let’s go even further down that rabbit hole and say it was LK, SW, MB or any number of people!! Or, realistically it was some hacker somewhere trolling for sites with forums and hacked in!!!

Maybe it was SLC2. See? I don’t say Trump. Um. Oh.