Re: Warning: OutsourcingRoom.com

On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 20:49 -0700, Steve wrote: > Daniel Brown wrote: > > Just as a heads-up, in case you guys weren't yet aware (cross-posting): > > > > Elance.com was the victim of an SQL injection attack earlier this > > summer (they apparently missed our billions of threads on sanity). > > According to their folks, only names, company names, phone numbers, > > and email addresses were taken. Whether or not that's true, I don't > > know, but that's beyond the scope of this warning. > > > > The most recent attempt to get more of your personal information > > comes from a (*possibly* legitimate) website named > > OutsourcingRoom.com. If you have been a member of Elance, you may > > have already received the message from OSR that claims that you signed > > up with them, and gives you a username and password. Now, I'm not > > here to tell you guys and gals what to do, but taking the facts into > > account - the stealing of private information by breeching the > > security of a competitor - it's entirely up to you as to whether or > > not you'll consider OSR a trustworthy business. Chances are, they'll > > not only charge you for using the service, but will also be so kind as > > to reuse (or redistribute) your private and financial information, > > should you be willing to give it to them. > > > > We've already received numerous hits on our network for > > OutsourcingRoom.com and one or two other shoddy attempts to gain more > > information. Today the emails seem to have picked up significantly, > > and appear to be not only valid, but professionally-crafted. > > Thankfully, we were anticipating such, after being alerted to the > > attack by Elance themselves. Perhaps a bit embarrassing for them, but > > it was a good move to mitigate the damage post-fact, in my opinion. > > > > That's it. Just trying to keep everyone from getting scammed and > > screwed. For more information, check Google, as always. ;-P > > > > > > I got that email. I was wondering what that was about. Thanks for the info! > Well, I try not to give out my details to too many people each month, and this month they were beat to it by a nice fellow in Nigeria who I'm helping out by letting him put some money into my account. Next month I had originally planned to invest in those berrys everyone is talking about and some watches, and then after that, I need to update my account details on Ebay (I forgot I even had an account with them!) as they keep asking me to go and do it because of a security update they've made. Ho hum... Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk