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Why is gaf asking me to change my password?
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SteveWinwood
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So even if a admins account was accessed they still *IN THEORY* shouldn't have access to our passwords right? They're hashed and whatever techno babble to be safe? This is purely precautionary?
LiquidMamba
Member
2920 days old, about 5X my post count. lol
Is it possible for me to have my e-mail changed to my Gmail? I'm currently using my school e-mail but I know that I won't have it forever and I'd rather just use my Gmail.
I always thought that people should be able to change their e-mail to a free provider after signing up because most people would rather keep their work/school e-mail for just that.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Yeah I'd say so, just to be safe.
They might still have access to the CP, depending on how its set up. *shrugs*
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Well, this is all I get when I try to change passwords. Even did a password reset.
reptilescorpio
Member
I wonder if the automated attack had anything to do with that spike in guest users 6 or so hours ago.
criesofthepast
Member
Men shit doesn't phase me as I use last pass and all my passwords are different. This kind of stuff happens all the time nowadays no matter how good (or bad in most cases) the security of a site. If you aren't using a password manager nowadays then you are just asking for trouble.
Oh I've been banned before, you certainly do not.
Tesseract
Banned
what's a good manager? i'm w7.
Only one solution then: Unban every account ever.
clay_ghost
Member
Guys I no longer have access to the email I used to sginup for GAF and I can't change it to my Gmail. 
Will this affect me if there is a force password reset?
Will this affect me if there is a force password reset?As I understand it, yes. Very few sites are stupid enough to save passwords in plain text, and I highly doubt this site is one of those (I think the forum software controls it anyway). It is possible to brute force a hashed password list, though (they feed it simple ones like "password1" and see how many matching hashes they get). In order to "steal" the password, they would have to successfully enter it and match it, which is no different from brute forcing any other type of account. But the more complicated your password, the less likely they are to do that (I wouldn't imagine most of these people even bother continuing once they've gotten matches on the usual "stupid" passwords like 12345). And if your password is unique to this site (as mine is), then it wouldn't help them anyway.
Well, this is all I get when I try to change passwords. Even did a password reset.
Click "remember me".
Might have been stump! I PMed him after this happened to me and before I saw this thread and have yet to receive a response or notice a post from him.
GhaelonEB said:
That game was so forgettable people don't even notice it below the sign in box.
Got that too, just try it a few time eventually it will work.Well, this is all I get when I try to change passwords. Even did a password reset.
It is weird cause about an hour earlier I was thinking about what if Gaf got hacked... and here we are.
Was wondering about that. It was easily 30+K viewing gaming. It usually dies around 15K.
fake edit: well there you go
Most users ever online was 56,201, Today at 03:37 PM.
I'm curious about this as well. I had to register through our ISP email, and that is literally the only thing I've used that email address for and that was oh, about 8 years ago? I just had to jump through rings of fire and two phone calls to get that email account unlocked so I could reset my password. It kept saying my current password wasn't correct when I'm 100% sure it was, especially since I could log in and out of GAF on my phone using it, but I think it maybe was something weird relating to my name change a couple of months ago since some of the pages were showing my old username when it reloaded.
But yeah, I totally get and agree with having a non-free email account to sign up with, but once you've signed up and are no longer a junior member I think you should be able to switch it. If we had moved sometime in the last 8 years I would have just been totally boned.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
I will always 'remember you' DrForester. You broke photobucket.
The hilarity that would ensue...
RatskyWatsky
Hunky Nostradamus
Changed the password. Wouldn't let me sign in for about 5 minutes, so I almost started to have a panic attack.
criesofthepast
Member
Lastpass or 1password are the most well known and trusted. One is free and one isn't. Keepass is another I hear good things about.
DrForester
Kills Photobucket
Still get the error, but the PW change seems to have gone through.
Count Dookkake
Member
It's like when the EPA makes the Ghostbusters empty the containment unit.
DietRob
i've been begging for over 5 years.
Gromph said to PM him for email changes.
And send the unbanned accounts an email asking them to come back and post because we missed them.
Can you imagine the likes of Costanza, ioi, Sean Malstrom and the like all returning in one day? Chaos.
Yep, exactly what I was thinking.
Hasphat'sAnts
Member
lol 1,037 days since I last changed password.
Good night sweet prince.
Good night sweet prince.
I just got uber scared for like ten minutes.
I changed my password and it would not work. My old college email, as it turns out, was deleted, so I couldn't even recover my password Was seriously starting to panic, even sent an email to support.
Then I realized.
I had Caps Lock on when I made my new password.
DAMN YOU SALTYBET TWITCH CHAT FOR MAKING ME TYPE LIKE THIS!
(I will be sending a PM along shortly to change my email, I apologize to anyone who reads the support@neogaf.com email for bothering you.)
I changed my password and it would not work. My old college email, as it turns out, was deleted, so I couldn't even recover my password Was seriously starting to panic, even sent an email to support.
Then I realized.
I had Caps Lock on when I made my new password.
DAMN YOU SALTYBET TWITCH CHAT FOR MAKING ME TYPE LIKE THIS!
(I will be sending a PM along shortly to change my email, I apologize to anyone who reads the support@neogaf.com email for bothering you.)
Same here. Like you, it worked after I tried to log-in again with the new password.
RoadHazard
Gold Member
I, too, was surprised at this sudden turn of events. Perhaps even a smidgen concerned, since it has never happened before. Oh well, password changed, all is well. And since I'm one of those smart guys who use a password manager I have different passwords everywhere, so no need to worry about changing it anywhere else.
This also made me (like many others) think about changing the e-mail address associated with my account. I use my old Uni address, and while I still have access to it I don't really use it anymore, and I also don't know if I'll always have access to it. I sort of understand the reasoning behind not letting people sign up with free addresses, but I think that after you've been granted Member status you should be trusted to change it to whatever you want. Oh well! (Yeah, I saw that I can PM a mod about this.)
This also made me (like many others) think about changing the e-mail address associated with my account. I use my old Uni address, and while I still have access to it I don't really use it anymore, and I also don't know if I'll always have access to it. I sort of understand the reasoning behind not letting people sign up with free addresses, but I think that after you've been granted Member status you should be trusted to change it to whatever you want. Oh well! (Yeah, I saw that I can PM a mod about this.)
a secret-boss
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