New email security breach at Plusnet ? (Feb 2016)
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New email security breach at Plusnet ? (Feb 2016)
19-02-2016 10:01 PM
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In the UserGroup section of the website, there is a UserTools subsection, a collection of useful applications which I assume were all written and maintained by the UserGroup.
Within the UserTools, there is the very useful Service Status Email Updates subscription based mailing list, which emails Plusnet Service Status announcements to interested customers.
My question is, who is currently responsible for maintaining this mailing list, is it the UserGroup, or do Plusnet hold the email database ?
Re: Who maintains the email addresses used by Plusnet Usertools ?
20-02-2016 9:19 PM
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The MySQL server which holds the database is administered by Plusnet.
Re: Who maintains the email addresses used by Plusnet Usertools ?
20-02-2016 9:47 PM
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I have checked back though about ten years worth of emails, and can confirm that I have never previously received any messages to this specific address which didn't originate from the expected service status source.
In addition, looking at the SPAM message header, it contains other Plusnet customer's email addresses which have also been specifically used to receive this service status information.
i.e. typically along the line of <PnServiceStatus@AnotherPNcustomer.plus.net>
The message looks like fake "Tracking Information" supposedly from DHL.com,
however the source address is clearly an unrelated spurious domain in India.
I already have complex message filtering to trap the hundreds of daily SPAM caused from the previous Plusnet email security leaks, but this is the first appearance of SPAM to my unique service status mailbox.
Because I know the pattern and timing of how all the other SPAM arrives, it seems extremely unlikely that this new SPAM to my "Service Status" mailbox is in any way related to any previous Plusnet security leaks, as all the previously leaked mailboxes get hammered 24/7, so if this mailbox had been previously harvested then I would have expected that it would have been targeted before now.
Has there been yet another security breach at Plusnet ?
Re: New email security breach at Plusnet ? (Feb 2016)
21-03-2016 10:26 PM
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Re: New email security breach at Plusnet ? (Feb 2016)
21-03-2016 10:39 PM
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It's not like the staff haven't read this thread, as I've watched most of them visit this topic - by regularly using "Who's Online"
After the previous email leaks, and the following lack of interest from Plusnet, I wasn't really expecting a response,
but I just wanted to register my observations here, so as to be a heads-up to other forum members who may be affected.
Re: New email security breach at Plusnet ? (Feb 2016)
24-03-2016 4:42 PM
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In another browser tab, login into the Plusnet user portal BEFORE clicking the fault & ticket links
Superusers are not staff, but they do have a direct line of communication into the business in order to raise issues, concerns and feedback from the community.
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