It appears that a lot of users of the hugely popular Irish message board site, boards.ie have been getting spammed with malicious links through PM’s and to their direct email (as a result of PM notifications)
There’s hundreds of posts currently in the discussion thread with many people reporting receiving the spam messages too
“Mr E”, one of the sites Admins explains:
Not hacked, but it’s a spam attack.
Thousands of accounts created since last night to send tens of thousands of private messages. The office are looking into ways to stop them or slow them down.
We’re deleting the private messages, but that’s after you’ve received the email notification (which is why the PM may not be there when you go looking for it).
Your account is safe and your email address has not been compromised.
It goes without saying – please don’t click any links from this PM, or from the copy of the PM in the PM notification email.
Source: https://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=110950019&postcount=17
Boards.ie has posted an official announcement confirming the issue, and emphasising that this wasn’t a ‘hack’ or a ‘data breach’
We would like to reassure users that there has not been a data breach. This is the Private Messaging service being abused and the email notification system working as it ordinarily does.
Will update when further details are available
