NATS hacker?

[tigermom]

What exactly is it that they can retrieve about me? There's nothing I give out to a nats sponsor that's too secret, I think. It's not fun, for sure, and a breach of my privacy, but I'm not sure how it can hurt me exactly.

I never use the same login/password for anything, so they can't access my epass or paypal accounts or my servers or anything.

[JustRobert]

Originally Posted by tigermom

What exactly is it that they can retrieve about me? There's nothing I give out to a nats sponsor that's too secret, I think.

I thought the same as I was going thru my sponsors last night. I came across a couple that show your social security number (US webmasters) on the same page as your address, name and epassporte info (if you use them). That is enough info to make someones life miserable in the wrong hands. Sorry, but I do not remember which ones.

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by tigermom

What exactly is it that they can retrieve about me? There's nothing I give out to a nats sponsor that's too secret, I think. It's not fun, for sure, and a breach of my privacy, but I'm not sure how it can hurt me exactly.

I never use the same login/password for anything, so they can't access my epass or paypal accounts or my servers or anything.

Did anyone answer this? I'd like to know this too. If they change my payout info to someplace they can get my money, then I figure they can be easily tracked.

This probably sucks if you have bank wire info in there (but doesn't that just go one way?), but other than that what else can they do?

Between NATS and Epassporte it's amazing anyone stays in this business longer than the first month they start

[tickler]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

I'm not overly concerned if some devious fucker logs in and changes my payout info. |shocking|

Originally Posted by Charlie

If they change my payout info to someplace they can get my money, then I figure they can be easily tracked.

|shot|pcwins|
Go ahead , and try playing with my account.
I bet I know a merc living not too far from you!

100s of sponsors, and a lot of them are NATs. This is going to take awhile.

[Trixxxia]

Originally Posted by Charlie

Did anyone answer this? I'd like to know this too. If they change my payout info to someplace they can get my money, then I figure they can be easily tracked.

This probably sucks if you have bank wire info in there (but doesn't that just go one way?), but other than that what else can they do?

Between NATS and Epassporte it's amazing anyone stays in this business longer than the first month they start

Charlie,
If someone changes your payout - depends on your payout - yes, they may be trackable but the chances that you get your money back are slim.

If they have your epassporte account and manage to get your password (not going to give ideas on possible ways to get that) but let's imagine they do, well your money will be gone and there's no way you'll be able to recover that. One way to help prevent that is that you all go into epassporte and apply the new security features they've put in place.

If they have your banking details - there are ways they can get your money, all depends on how your bank works and the security measures they have in place.

As for what is available - from what I see, it's your name, address, SSN (if you're in the US) and your payout method. If you are a foreign webmaster, the SSN isn't a concern.

As for members - depends on the postback from billing companies but example - we only see name, email & postal code with one biller and only email & postal code with the other biller we use (the two billers we prominently use). No creditcard details are received by us, therefore, not stored on our servers - hence no possibility of it being compromised.

**Hope that helps**

[Charlie]

Originally Posted by Trixxxia

Charlie,
If someone changes your payout - depends on your payout - yes, they may be trackable but the chances that you get your money back are slim.

If they have your epassporte account and manage to get your password (not going to give ideas on possible ways to get that) but let's imagine they do, well your money will be gone and there's no way you'll be able to recover that. One way to help prevent that is that you all go into epassporte and apply the new security features they've put in place.

If they have your banking details - there are ways they can get your money, all depends on how your bank works and the security measures they have in place.

As for what is available - from what I see, it's your name, address, SSN (if you're in the US) and your payout method. If you are a foreign webmaster, the SSN isn't a concern.

As for members - depends on the postback from billing companies but example - we only see name, email & postal code with one biller and only email & postal code with the other biller we use (the two billers we prominently use). No creditcard details are received by us, therefore, not stored on our servers - hence no possibility of it being compromised.

**Hope that helps**

Yes, it does. Thanks. Sounds like the biggest threat would be them getting into your epass account since names and social security numbers aren't very hard to get without going to these methods.

Thanks again