Photobucket account hacked how?
30-11-2005, 07:10 AM
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Photobucket account hacked how?
i have had someone pm a picture out of my photobucket account telling me to be careful what i keep in there. The account is pasword protected how have they done this and what can i do about it?
30-11-2005, 07:20 AM
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They could have guessed your password if it is something easy (i.e. Any normal word) Try and make sure t is about 8 letters long and includes some capital letters, some lowercase letters, some numbers and some characters like $%^" etc.
Or, more likely, they have guessed the name of the picture and put it into the address bar of internet explorer. E.g. in your sig is this picture: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ompomotive.jpg
Now, say you had a picture called supersecretengine.jpg in your Photobucket, all I have to do is put http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...cretengine.jpg into the address bar and it will show me the picture. This is especially easy if you name the pictures engine1.jpg, engine2.jpg and say engine3.jpg where engine3 is a picture you don't want people to see. It i easy to spot the sequence. If you tick 'Don't keep my image name' or whatever it is in Photobucket when you upload the pictures it makes it some random long name whihc no-one will guess.
Or, more likely, they have guessed the name of the picture and put it into the address bar of internet explorer. E.g. in your sig is this picture: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ompomotive.jpg
Now, say you had a picture called supersecretengine.jpg in your Photobucket, all I have to do is put http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...cretengine.jpg into the address bar and it will show me the picture. This is especially easy if you name the pictures engine1.jpg, engine2.jpg and say engine3.jpg where engine3 is a picture you don't want people to see. It i easy to spot the sequence. If you tick 'Don't keep my image name' or whatever it is in Photobucket when you upload the pictures it makes it some random long name whihc no-one will guess.
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30-11-2005, 07:24 AM
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Originally Posted by Phil
They could have guessed your password if it is something easy (i.e. Any normal word) Try and make sure t is about 8 letters long and includes some capital letters, some lowercase letters, some numbers and some characters like $%^" etc.
Or, more likely, they have guessed the name of the picture and put it into the address bar of internet explorer. E.g. in your sig is this picture: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ompomotive.jpg
Now, say you had a picture called supersecretengine.jpg in your Photobucket, all I have to do is put http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...cretengine.jpg into the address bar and it will show me the picture. This is especially easy if you name the pictures engine1.jpg, engine2.jpg and say engine3.jpg where engine3 is a picture you don't want people to see. It i easy to spot the sequence. If you tick 'Don't keep my image name' or whatever it is in Photobucket when you upload the pictures it makes it some random long name whihc no-one will guess.
Or, more likely, they have guessed the name of the picture and put it into the address bar of internet explorer. E.g. in your sig is this picture: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...ompomotive.jpg
Now, say you had a picture called supersecretengine.jpg in your Photobucket, all I have to do is put http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...cretengine.jpg into the address bar and it will show me the picture. This is especially easy if you name the pictures engine1.jpg, engine2.jpg and say engine3.jpg where engine3 is a picture you don't want people to see. It i easy to spot the sequence. If you tick 'Don't keep my image name' or whatever it is in Photobucket when you upload the pictures it makes it some random long name whihc no-one will guess.
30-11-2005, 08:44 AM
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Yea hthe trick is not to go with the DCP012345.jpg style names you get from a camera, or better still sign up for a paid for photobucket account and have a subfolder for images you dont want public.
30-11-2005, 01:09 PM
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Martin next time your uploading pic to your account make sure the "keep orginal name" button isnt ticked. It will then generate a random file name for your uploaded pic in your account 
30-11-2005, 01:14 PM
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martin, i think you made some guys really desperate to find out what you have done with your amazing motor... 
envy is really a very bad thing...
i hope everything is ok now...
can't wait for more updates...
martin = cossie god...
envy is really a very bad thing...
i hope everything is ok now...
can't wait for more updates...
martin = cossie god...
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