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<blockquote data-quote="Sterling" data-source="post: 2346119" data-attributes="member: 59029"><p><h3>As a result of Rob's actions, everyone's accounts have been pwned. I can not support this forum any longer knowing who runs the show now and what they stand for. This forum was a mess before he got here and now it's even more of a mess. This forum is a failure again. I used to love coming here and meeting others in the industry. Now it's a ghost town. I'm not here to argue. I'm here just to voice my opinion. Best of luck to all those that stick around, but I'm finally out. I have never and will never register a name with epik. It's not the hackers that gives domainers a bad name, it's people like Rob and his decisions that do. Karma hurts. He got what he asked for. This will not be the last time unless he stands for the right thing.</h3><h3></h3><h3>You've been pwned!</h3><p>You signed up for notifications when your account was pwned in a data breach and unfortunately, it's happened. Here's what's known about the breach:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table style='width: 100%'><tr><td><strong>Email found:</strong></td><td>sterling@*****.com</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Breach:</strong></td><td>Epik</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Date of breach:</strong></td><td>13 Sep 2021</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Number of accounts:</strong></td><td>15,003,961</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Compromised data:</strong></td><td>Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Purchases</td></tr><tr><td><strong>Description:</strong></td><td>In September 2021, <a href="https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/anonymous-leaks-gigabytes-of-data-from-epik-web-host-of-gab-and-parler/" target="_blank">the domain registrar and web host Epik suffered a significant data breach</a>, allegedly in retaliation for hosting alt-right websites. The breach exposed a huge volume of data not just of Epik customers, but also scraped WHOIS records belonging to individuals and organisations who were not Epik customers. The data included over 15 million unique email addresses (including anonymised versions for domain privacy), names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases and passwords stored in various formats.</td></tr></table></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sterling, post: 2346119, member: 59029"] [HEADING=2]As a result of Rob's actions, everyone's accounts have been pwned. I can not support this forum any longer knowing who runs the show now and what they stand for. This forum was a mess before he got here and now it's even more of a mess. This forum is a failure again. I used to love coming here and meeting others in the industry. Now it's a ghost town. I'm not here to argue. I'm here just to voice my opinion. Best of luck to all those that stick around, but I'm finally out. I have never and will never register a name with epik. It's not the hackers that gives domainers a bad name, it's people like Rob and his decisions that do. Karma hurts. He got what he asked for. This will not be the last time unless he stands for the right thing.[/HEADING] [HEADING=2][/HEADING] [HEADING=2]You've been pwned![/HEADING] You signed up for notifications when your account was pwned in a data breach and unfortunately, it's happened. Here's what's known about the breach: [TABLE] [TR] [TD][B]Email found:[/B][/TD] [TD]sterling@*****.com[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][B]Breach:[/B][/TD] [TD]Epik[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][B]Date of breach:[/B][/TD] [TD]13 Sep 2021[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][B]Number of accounts:[/B][/TD] [TD]15,003,961[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][B]Compromised data:[/B][/TD] [TD]Email addresses, Names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, Purchases[/TD] [/TR] [TR] [TD][B]Description:[/B][/TD] [TD]In September 2021, [URL='https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/09/anonymous-leaks-gigabytes-of-data-from-epik-web-host-of-gab-and-parler/']the domain registrar and web host Epik suffered a significant data breach[/URL], allegedly in retaliation for hosting alt-right websites. The breach exposed a huge volume of data not just of Epik customers, but also scraped WHOIS records belonging to individuals and organisations who were not Epik customers. The data included over 15 million unique email addresses (including anonymised versions for domain privacy), names, phone numbers, physical addresses, purchases and passwords stored in various formats.[/TD] [/TR] [/TABLE] [/QUOTE]
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