Receiving SPAM on e-mailadres used in this forum

[r.schreurs]

Hello all,

Since yesterday, SPAM is being send to one of my e-mail addresses. I used this address exclusively for this forum. Apparently, the address list of this forum has been stolen and is now being misused...

Regards,

R. Schreurs

[splitbrain]

Your email address is visible in the RSS feed of this forum. It's bubba2.user@ some dutch provider. So not much of a hack but more the stupidity of the forum software .

[Ubi]

indeed. Maybe related to the "Users can contact me by e-mail:" setting

[RandomUsername]

Am I being blind? I can't even see the RSS link. :S

[Ubi]

it's the orange icons on the homepage

[RandomUsername]

it's the orange icons on the homepage

Found them, thanks. I was looking on this page.

[r.schreurs]

Well, visibility in the RSS feed clarifies how the address was found. Still I think the forum owner, Excito, should not publish email addresses. This discussion on the phpBB community site could help preventing this in the future.

[tor]

Hi all,

I have read that thread mentioned above and manually changed the rss.php. Please let me know if this solution is working out.

/Tor

[r.schreurs]

The issue has been solved. I now see <author>forum@excito.com (r.schreurs)</author>, so not my personal email address. Thanks