Yes, we have. This is a Ccommon hoax send as SPAM and the intention is to scare folks to pay.
SPAM is the problem here! On Monday 22 October 2018 07.50, ac wrote: > > Hi All, > > I will be repeating this post on four Mailman mailing lists.... > > I received one of these: "I hacked your account, here is your password > and pay me bitcoin" scam emails - to an...@ox.co.za with the password I > used on anti-abuse-wg@ripe.net (and three other Mailman lists only...) > > As I use different passwords, change my passwords (up to now, except > for mailing lists), every 7 to 30 days, I am usually able to know > exactly where, when so that I can go look for the how, etc. As > unfortunately I used the same email and same password on four lists, I > do not know which list data has been compromised. > > If anyone else receives similar email with a password used on > anti-abuse, please let us know... > > For abuse discussion purposes: With which frequency should one change > mailing list passwords? And, is it even that important? Compromising a > mailing list password allows whomever to change my digest options and > nothing much else, so, does it really matter? > > One should have one password for each mailing list (and not one for > four...) but, is it important enough, in terms of abuse itself, to > even change these monthly? or maybe yearly? or maybe not at all? > > Andre > > -- Peter Håkanson There's never money to do it right, but always money to do it again ... and again ... and again ... and again. ( Det är billigare att göra rätt. Det är dyrt att laga fel. )