NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails • Hacker News Board

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

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Post by cortic » Tue, Feb 14, 2023, 7:09 PM UTC

galleywest200 wrote: post #95

cortic wrote: post #68

NameCheap have been training their customers to be vulnerable to this for years. When your account gets suspended (in my case for using VPN to login) they send you an email telling you to go to a privately registered domain (not referenced on their site) and do a cam show with your credit card.. Support is so slow they have already shut down your account before you get a response. I lost a domain and only got a parti…

I am fairly certain I have used a VPN to connect to namecheap.com and I have never had this issue. This sounds as if you got scammed by another actor or made this up.

validation.com was the site (still anonymously registered domain) they were sending me to, and they confirmed from a support ticket that the email request was sent by them, you can see on the site an example of the credit card cam show they require.

The support ticket took 5 days and they shut down my account later that day, actually while i was trying to get a buggy old webcam to work.

They actually mention validation.com now; https://www.namecheap.com/id-validation/ though i couldn't find any reference to it at the time.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

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Post by foverzar » Wed, Feb 15, 2023, 12:30 PM UTC

anaganisk wrote: post #110

foverzar wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is a very wishful assessment of my identity, ironically given that I've never ever even discussed quantum mechanics on HN. But yeah, I do act bashing when discussing politics. Do you feel this is somehow undeserved? I don't really see anyone else acting friendly - it's all just one ignorant two minutes hate after another. Besides, English is obviously not my native language.

English is not a first language for many people on this site. The tone of conversation is what's important. > I don't really see anyone else acting friendly - it's all just one ignorant two minutes hate after another I just dont understand why you frequent a site that constantly raises your blood pressure so easily and considers the entire userbase as ignorant, unless you want to push a narrative. You can engage in a…

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Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

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Post by mysteryalias » Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 12:25 AM UTC

foverzar wrote: post #105

neoromantique wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Well sorry for being an individual That's rich. >this is you grinding your teeth over the fact that some people may discuss points you don't like. This is me stating directly that you are a bad person for consistently spreading the Russian propaganda( https://www.martenscentre.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/russ... ), I don't know why you are trying to paint it as some sort of "gotcha".

> That's rich. Haters gonna hate. > This is me stating directly that you are a bad person Okay. I don't take people who label every other random sampled inconvenient piece of information or opinion as "consistent spreading of propaganda" seriously anyway. Don't suppose anyone actually does, this isn't really a healthy thing, seems kinda Orwellian.

You’re a troll, one hundred percent and you are now arguing in bad faith. Calling out propaganda for what it is isn’t a bad thing and I'm happy most people here are seeing through your lies. Maybe stop watching RT news so much.

Re: NameCheap's email hacked to send Metamask, DHL phishing emails

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Post by joshka » Mon, Feb 20, 2023, 2:10 AM UTC

NamecheapCEO wrote: post #18

To be clear, the issue was with a 3rd party provider that we use to send our newsletter. None of our own systems or customer accounts where breached. I sent a follow up email to all users that were affected. The domains linked in the original phishing emails were also disabled. I apologize for this issue and to anyone it may have affected. We have also taken immediate steps to insure it will not happen again.

I never received an email, but just today received spam on an email address only used with namecheap. You might want to check your logic for what was impacted.