Fellow Nairalanders,

We have observed an ongoing password guessing attack against Nairaland members. The perpetrators have obtained a list of thousands of usernames and passwords from hacked websites & are systematically trying those passwords on Nairaland to take over your accounts.

If you have used your Nairaland username and password on other websites, they may be able to log in to Nairaland as you, mutilate your profile and send spam messages with your name. To prevent this, please change your Nairaland password to a unique password asap.

For the dozens of Nairalanders whose accounts have been affected, you would have gotten an unexpected login notification from Nairaland. All you need to do to secure your account is to logout, reset your password with this form, and correct your mutilated profile.

For those who are affected, we may scramble your password and log you out to force you to change it. Don't be alarmed. Just logout and reset your password with this form to regain access to Nairaland.

We have taken measures to slow the perpetrators down severely, but it's up to you to make sure that your password is secure.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

Thanks Seun, hackers have become very sophisticated in their nefarious activities.

But why is updating of profile not working?

God1000:
Thanks Seun, hackers have become very sophisticated in their nefarious activities.

But why is updating of profile not working?

It was a temporary measure to stop profiles from being mutilated. We will undo it shortly.

Seun:
It was a temporary measure to stop profiles from being mutilated. We will undo it shortly.

Oh I see, thanks.

Happy new year to you and your family.

Modified
Profile update is working now

Seun, Nairaland needs a Redesign/Rebrand

It will go a long way in giving your platform the attention and credits it deserves in todays SocialMedia/discussion forum platform

Redesign/Rebranding is necessary over these years to ensure you’re capturing the new products, services, old/new members attention.

Seun:
It was a temporary measure to stop profiles from being mutilated. We will undo it shortly.

Oil dey your head

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

We have observed an ongoing password guessing attack against Nairaland members. The perpetrators have obtained a list of thousands of usernames and passwords from hacked websites & are systematically trying those passwords on Nairaland to take over your accounts.

If you have used your Nairaland username and password on other websites, they may be able to log in to Nairaland as you, mutilate your profile and send spam messages with your name. To prevent this, please change your Nairaland password to a unique password asap.

For the dozens of Nairalanders whose accounts have been affected, you would have gotten an unexpected login notification from Nairaland. All you need to do to secure your account is to logout, reset your password with this form, and correct your mutilated profile.

For those who are affected, we may scramble your password and log you out to force you to change it. Don't be alarmed. Just reset your password with this form to regain access to Nairaland.

We have taken measures to slow the perpetrators down severely but we can't totally stop them.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

Cc ibkayee

GloriousGbola:


Cc ibkayee

Cool, an explanation is all people wanted

silvoclaira:


Seun, Nairaland needs a Redesign/Rebrand

It will go a long way in giving your platform the attention and credits it deserves in todays SocialMedia world.

Redesign/Rebranding is necessary over these years to ensure you’re capturing the new products, services, members attention.

Redesign of what ?

Nairaland is a forum site not social media.

Seun, add some features to Nairaland and bring back contest

pls we are all in love with this site ....so na to protect our crip remain oo

Thanks for this

And please do not use incorrect password as your password.

Seun what do you do about the pro-tinubu bots who open numerous accounts for the sake of generating fake likes on pro tinubu comments like these accounts below?

What do you do about the rampant hateful tribal venom being spewed by pro-apc accounts. The ones that tag all opponents chinedu or Emeka and outrightly single out Igbo tribe? How do you tackle this seun?

aright

Seun:
Fellow Nairalanders,

We have observed an ongoing password guessing attack against Nairaland members. The perpetrators have obtained a list of thousands of usernames and passwords from hacked websites & are systematically trying those passwords on Nairaland to take over your accounts.

If you have used your Nairaland username and password on other websites, they may be able to log in to Nairaland as you, mutilate your profile and send spam messages with your name. To prevent this, please change your Nairaland password to a unique password asap.

For the dozens of Nairalanders whose accounts have been affected, you would have gotten an unexpected login notification from Nairaland. All you need to do to secure your account is to logout, reset your password with this form, and correct your mutilated profile.

For those who are affected, we may scramble your password and log you out to force you to change it. Don't be alarmed. Just reset your password with this form to regain access to Nairaland.

We have taken measures to slow the perpetrators down severely, but it's up to you to make sure that your password is secure.

Best Regards,
Seun Osewa.

Ahhhh

Gazelle garagara boys on the loose, God punish Tinubu punish buhari and apshit members join

Walaha be like covid 19, na china cause ham, na the rest of the world follow suffer ham

Lol. Who would have thought scammers are working this hard?

Be like say Oyinbo no too pay them again.

But lol, what would a scammer do with my nairaland account abeg, no be to dey beg money upandan?

Useless people that should have been prevented by ordinary withdrawal or month calculation method - you don't even need CD

Ok

Noted, thanks boss @ Seun more grace to ur elbows, cc mynd44 Nlfpmod dominique lalasticlala mukina more grace to ur elbows

Ok.. before they get into my bitcoin wallet connected to nairaland

Nice one Seun, pls work on the emojis as well

My signature is calling u

What if my password is already strong, do I still need to change it?

Log out every member automatically.

Let the real ones log in

Ok