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Stuart Smith
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I thought it was because they were getting more draconian and censorhappy. Saying you were hacked or it was a little brother after getting caught posting bad things is one of the older excuses. Not surprised if a company doesn't fix that. Is it really that big of a deal to make a new account though? -Stuart Smith |
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belvadeer
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Ah so that's what happened. I wondered what was going on. Sorry to hear some losers have nothing better to do than hack a site that simply brings lovers of anime, manga and games something fun to enjoy daily.
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Takamachi Ryoko
Posts: 332 Location: 東京, 日本 |
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I haven't been around lately so I didn't know. Why do I have a feeling the people behind this hack are the same Filthy Frank circlejerk that labels anyone who likes anime is a weaboo or anime is cringy and such.
Sad to hear things like this, do your best guys. |
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Ali07
Posts: 3333 Location: Victoria, Australia |
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But should it actually show my profile? Most services like that will just have fields to enter in the new details and wouldn't give options for linking social media accounts. I should avoid posting late at night, as I didn't mention the important part. On the password reset screen, has options to link social media accounts. If I had any linked to my ANN profile, would they be listed? Would find it strange that doing a password reset could expose details to social media accounts. That shouldn't be on a password reset page IMO. And, sure, they could look through the profile after resetting the password...but why just give up that info upfront? |
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Zin5ki
Posts: 6680 Location: London, UK |
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Cripes, sorry to hear that. At least everything has been amended in time for this weekend's fun! |
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yuna49
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I'm an active forum user, and after a few similar cases where I lost long postings I did some research. I use Firefox and have installed the Textarea Cache Lite add-on: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/textarea-cache-lite/. This keeps a record of what you type into forms. When the site crashed, you could have saved the content in a file for later use. I don't know whether there are similar add-ons for other browsers. |
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Shiroi Hane
Encyclopedia Editor
Posts: 7580 Location: Wales |
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That's a feature of the site so that if you are on the fast. server, for example, you don't get redirected back to www. all the time when someone else posts an internal link (also accounted for the .co.uk and .com.au editions before they were merged back into the .com domain with on-the-fly switching)
You cannot access Account Settings without manually authenticating ("You were automatically logged in using the "remember me" feature. In order to access this page you must first re-authentify.") and the point of the password reset email is to authenticate you. This does naturally expose a loophole, which is how the ANN Twitter accounts were compromised, but there has to be a balance somewhere between security and usability. |
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Usagi-kun
Posts: 877 Location: Nashville, TN |
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Whether or not this hack was personal, it is definitely methodical. Attacking this site is a crappy way to motivate some kind of gain, whether it is personal or just malicious. The fans are still here though.
I love you guys and use your encyclopedia every day, every week when I check my favorite columns like Shelf Life and The List, and every review I read for new series and new releases in anime and manga. Keep up the hard work and fighting the good fight. You guys are a huge staple in the anime and entertainment community for quality and accessibility, and you have our, and my, support. Sadness for all of those horrible commas. |
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TD912
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[quote="Shiroi Hane"]
With Twitter, you can turn on a feature to also send a text to your phone with a code to enter before being allowed change your password. This adds more security, but you have to have your phone with you or else you're stuck. It's not turned on by default though. |
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Juno016
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1) Thanks for working hard out of your way to bring back one of my daily joys~ I love this site and the effect it has on my world is huge. I'm sure I'm not the only one. 2) Having all the embarrassing things you've said in the past decade or so wiped can be refreshing. A blessing in disguise, even. But now, the question is, will you stop posting embarrassing things? =P |
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Parse Error
Posts: 592 |
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Isn't that what Twitter is for? |
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DangerMouse
Posts: 3984 |
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Yeah.
Yup. I love this place. |
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EleutheroMaster
Posts: 105 |
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I missed you guys! I read what happened to your site!
HOW THE HELL COULD SOMEONE DO THIS TO YOU!? Straight...up...EVIL!! Thank Heavens you're fixing this up! I love your website! I visit it about everyday! I bet the hacker(s) was/were some people who care about social justice! I'd like to give them a piece of my mind! My hearts go out to you guys! がんばろう、ANN! (Bounce back, ANN!) |
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doomydoomdoom
Posts: 278 Location: Michigan, USA |
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Good Lord. So about 10 mins ago I type in animenewsnetwork.com, press enter, and get a picture of black skies with the text "Anime" and a ticking clock and some garbage hip-hop song. And it took me all of one second to realize that ANN had been hacked.
I'm very pleased to see you guys quickly recovered though, and I wish you guys great luck in securing .com again and hopefully finding who did this or at least why. Meanwhile I'll be frequenting .cc. |
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Catseyetiger
Posts: 779 |
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For the first few days. I had no clue why the servers where down.
But checking Facebook of all places let me know where the new Web page could be found. Annoying there I no redirects set up. |
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