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Public Service Announcement - Big Footy data leak

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I have an account there, but haven't been contacted yet.

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I heard nothing either from Big Footy
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As I understand it, private messages were accessed and leaked.

Unless you posted important personal details such as email addresses, phone numbers, bank details or other sensitive information then a BF user wouldn't be concerned.

Nevertheless, it's massive incompetence by BF in being unable to guard against such a breach.
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Jezza wrote:As I understand it, private messages were accessed and leaked.

Unless you posted important personal details such as email addresses, phone numbers, bank details or other sensitive information then a BF user wouldn't be concerned.

Nevertheless, it's massive incompetence by BF in being unable to guard against such a breach.
No Idea where they where Leaked Too.

Just shows how Unsafe the Internet is
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Lesson: don't post on BF when you could post on Nicks instead!
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I have an account, but haven't posted there for many years now.

Certainly PM is not something I really ever used anyway.
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Always thought big footy was not legitimate a lot of trolls and hackers go on bigfooty no surprise
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Mate, they let Carlton supporters on there! CARLTON SUPPORTERS!

Like they're legitimate, useful members of society!

They only have themselves to blame...
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90 nice wrote:Always thought big footy was not legitimate...
Don't worry; the Pies BFers think the same thing about Nick's.
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90 nice wrote:Always thought big footy was not legitimate a lot of trolls and hackers go on bigfooty no surprise
There are also some very good Posters on Bigfooty.

Trolls are on Facebook and Twitter now
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Post by David »

And we thought the Ashley Madison hack was bad. Imagine what will happen when people's clandestine support for St Kilda is revealed!
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Well if my pms get out I don’t care, people will think I’m a bad ass, I’ve had so many unplanned holidays there!
You cant fix stupid, turns out you cant quarantine it either!
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think positive wrote:Well if my pms get out I don’t care, people will think I’m a bad ass, I’ve had so many unplanned holidays there!
I have plenty of Day Holidays on there over the Years
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Dave The Man wrote:
think positive wrote:Well if my pms get out I don’t care, people will think I’m a bad ass, I’ve had so many unplanned holidays there!
I have plenty of Day Holidays on there over the Years
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