Hi Brian,
Thanks, definitely not my old computer going too wonky just yet then.
R.E. alleged data breach - Looking for edaboard info about outage yesterday, stumbled upon a Spanish page associated with a totally reputable telecoms provider which is I think about their cyber security unit, it's called Eleven Paths. It has this entry regarding the alleged matter:
(edaboard data breach) fuga de informacion de edaboard.com
Took liberty of translating with Google Translate to save you time:
"This electronic forum has suffered an information leak. How many users have you affected? We tell you all the details of this latest case of data leakage in the hand of our team of intelligence analysts.
On July 20, access credentials to the forum specialized in electronic edaboard.com appeared. This platform, which currently has more than half a million members, was affected when the access data of more than 459,000 users was published. The information disclosed is personal and includes the alias used in the forum, the email and the access password. Due to the technological profile of the users, there is a large number of members that seem to belong to international organizations or governmental entities.
Among the organizations affected have been identified corporate email accounts of the US space agencies (nasa.gov) and India (isro.gov), in addition to eighty accounts belonging to the domain thousand reserved for military use in the US or critical infrastructure of the sector energetic. The leak was made through the Twitter account @imtolame, which was removed from the MEGA exchange platform where it was hosted the day after its publication."
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Can't say I'm that worried in an age where you can't seem to keep anything private anymore and electronic snooping is listed among most children's hobbies.