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| Real estate portal attacked by hackers
RealEstateGates.com officially announces of the hacker attack
that took place last Friday, December 3. Portal's Security
Systems detected the intrusion of at least 6 fraudsters
throughout the day using different IP-addresses but presumably
having the mutual purpose. Fortunately, the confidential
information on the portal stood the intrusion and remained
inaccessible. However, the mailing system used was broken in.
Real Estate Gates uses the mailer to regularly send information
to its members who are subscribed to the service. Users are
usually subscribing for receiving daily news and articles, as
well as the information on the portal's new offers and services.
The fraudsters managed to bind their own databases and totally
screw mailer's regular functioning. Thus, about 30,000 people
having no idea of what was actually going on received the
fraudulent letters that were considered to be spam. But the main
problem occurred when they tried to unsubscribe and apply for
being removed from the spam-database. Hackers' rude virus
attached to letters would resend all the replies around their
database again and again. Some of the people received about 200
letters with "Unsubscribe Me" or "Remove Me" content. Many
others would receive letters with some obscene phrases produced
by those who badly wanted to stop receiving those letters they
never asked for before. RealEstateGates.com started receiving
hundreds of letters of dissatisfaction and even containing
threats to claim the corresponding authorities to prevent from
spamming again. The team of programmers supporting Real Estate
Gates launched a campaign on preventing the real threat that the
portal faced. In the course of the campaign the IP-addresses had
been detected and the necessary measures taken. Within the
framework of the campaign, the mailer that had been used before
was modified and will from now detect any intrusions and quit
functioning at once, so that people received no fraudulent
letters. RealEstateGates.com regrets about what happened and
presents thousands of apologies to the people who received the
letters and considered the portal to be a spammer. We hope that
will never happen again. And even if it does, we will do
everything to keep our users, as well as those throughout the
internet on the safe side. George Barrows Security Service
Manager Real Estate Gates ( http://www.realestategates.com )
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