[SAC] Excessive or fatal bounces from hotmail accounts

[Seven (aka Arnulf)]

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On 09/12/2013 08:11 AM, Markus Neteler wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> please note that contemporarily hundreds of spam accounts are
> being registered in our mediawikis. Saw this also elsewhere. The
> point is that most of the confirmation emails go to hotmail and
> outlook.com accounts (on the GRASS wiki Martin Landa and me get a
> cc email of each of them, local hack).
> 
> I guess that they cracked hundreds of the email accounts.
> 
> Markus

Hi Markus,
thanks for this new bit of information. For now I will do nothing and
wait how things evolve.

Frank,
I temporarily activated "Should administrator get notices of
subscribes and unsubscribes? = Yes" in the hope that I can see a
correlation of new accounts which will after some time bounce. I'll
turn it off in a week if it does not render useful information. Sorry
for the extra load of mails.

Cheers,
Arnulf


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