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Re: FYI: forum seems to have been hacked
by Sven Laux - Tuesday, 7 April 2015, 9:33 AM
 

Hi Sue,

thanks for letting us know.

I noticed that there were two spam posts in the last four days and have removed them and the user accounts on the site this morning. Both posts came from the same IP address so if need be this could be blocked in order to prevent any further spam.

On reflection, I am glad that we have had hundreds of threads and thousands of posts, which were all on topic - so a massive thank you to the community for that! I believe that this was an isolated occurrence and feel that the measures we have in place on the site will mean that we (hopefully) won't get much spam in the future (i.e. you have to have a valid email address to sign up for an account and can only post when logged in).

It's good to know that the Adapt emails have defaulted to the spam box for you - hopefully this won't be the case in the future.

Many thanks,
Sven