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My boards.ie account has been hacked three times?

eskimo · 2008-10-18 18:46:15

A few weeks ago (it could have been a month or two ago) I tried to log in to my boards.ie account, but it kept saying I had the wrong password. Baffled, I merely had my password reset and emailed to me. A few weeks later, the exact same thing happened again. It has now happened a third time. I never change my passwords, so…

18-10-2008 07:46PM

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eskimo

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A few weeks ago (it could have been a month or two ago) I tried to log in to my boards.ie account, but it kept saying I had the wrong password. Baffled, I merely had my password reset and emailed to me.

A few weeks later, the exact same thing happened again.

It has now happened a third time. I never change my passwords, so how does my boards.ie password keep changing?

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#2 20-10-2008 09:44AM

seamus

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Short answer: it doesn't.

Unless someone knows your password and is going in and changing it, then there is no way/reason why your password would change.

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