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Msg # 6028 Dated 02-27-88 21:48:34
From: MICHAEL MURRAY
To: ALL
Re: LOOKS LIKE A HACKER
I've encountered a certain situation twice in the past week that leaves
me with a few questions. Upon connecting to my Telenet indial node, in
between attempts to connect to either a Telenet service or outdial
modem, I've gotten the following message:
CONNECTION FROM 301 18A
The first time this happened, whoever was on the other end began typing
several obscenities. Tonight when this happened, the person attempted
to generate a false "@" prompt. Whoever was doing this was trying to
lure me into typing in my PCP acct and password. Sure enough, when I fed
the prompt a made-up acct, hit return...I got back what I know was a
misleading prompt.
I don't think my acct/pw got to him/her, but it scares me that someone
can make such a connection. I called up the Telenet service number to
report this, but all I was told is that nothing can be done except to
change the password, at MY expense. Anybody else have this happen to
them?
Mike
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Msg # 6057 Dated 02-28-88 09:47:49
From: IMA HACKER-
To: ALL
Re: IMPORTANT
The *PCP HACKERS* are working to show PCP what we think of their awful
service and policies. We have been STEALING PCP IDs and PWs and using
them. We can HACK into TELENET and connect to your indial modem without
you even knowing it. Then we watch you hammer at a distant modem with
those dialing scripts and it fills our screen with your pw and id. You
don't see your pw but *WE DO* and we have hundreds of PCP IDs and PWs.
Your TELENET *CONTRACT* makes YOU responsible for all charges to your
ID, and PCP just sent out bills from back in September! We want more
outdial modems and less BUSY. We want responsive Customer Service. We
want a realistic CONTRACT, 300 and 2400 baud. SCREW PCP until then!!!
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Msg # 6062 Dated 02-28-88 12:59:42
From: TONY WADDELL
To: IMA HACKER-
Re: (R)IMPORTANT
I don't know if message #6057 is for real or not ( I find some of the
claims hard to believe ), but perhaps PC-Pursuit should make it just a
little easier for users to change their passwords. I understand it's
quite a nose bleed to get one changed.
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Msg # 6072 Dated 02-27-88 15:45:04
From: LEE RIMAR
To: TOM WADDELL
Re: PASSWORD CHANGES
TW> I don't know if message #6057 is for real or not (I find some of
TW> the claims hard to believe) . . .
(regarding a message on "hacking" PC-Pursuit)
