Someone changed my question (for spam)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Undecided
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Bug Description
I just received a mail containing the following information:
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: Re: [Question #339969]: How to rebuild after "Could not be uploaded correctly"
> Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:40:59 -0000
> From: rajni_kant66 <email address hidden>
>
> Your question #339969 on Launchpad itself changed:
> https:/
>
> Description changed to:
> Help Usa@ +1-800-
The bug report itself as stated in the link above was terribly abused for spam. Now my question:
- The most important: PLEASE REVERT THIS TO THE ORIGINAL
- The history is incomplete, it doesn't show any change
- Does the incomplete history mean that someone hijacked a privileged/admin account?
- The quoted mail above shows rajni_kant66 which is probably the user (spam account)
- Or did someone hijack my own account? Just for case, I just changed my password. But the old one was a safe random one, so that bruteforcing is not easy.
summary: |
- Someone changed my bug + Someone changed my bug (for spam) |
summary: |
- Someone changed my bug (for spam) + Someone changed my question (for spam) |
Taking your points in order as the easiest way to respond:
- I don't have the original text so unfortunately can't revert it. Hopefully somebody who does will do so. In the meantime I've at least set it to relatively innocuous text.
- Questions unfortunately don't have sensible history, unlike bugs. So there's no account hijacking involved or anything, just the questions system being a bit subpar.
- The account in question has been suspended.
- We have closed the loophole which the spammers used to gain edit privileges, so this shouldn't happen again.