RacingPost Hacked

betsmate

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You might want to change your username/password with any bookies where it is the same...
 
In slightly better news... if you don't have Member's club access, then they have had to remove the authentication from the racingpost site, so you can now access everything.
 
Dear Ben,

Despite our best efforts, the security on racingpost.com has been breached over the last 36 hours, in a sophisticated, sustained and aggressive attack. One of our databases was accessed and customer details were stolen.

Security is an area we take extremely seriously and our website has not been compromised previously. As soon as we were aware of the situation we did everything in our power to halt the breach. We have now established that a number of customer accounts were accessed. Although all the passwords are encrypted, we believe that there is still a chance that some passwords can be deciphered. As yours is one of the accounts involved, there is a risk of identity theft. Please be aware that we do not store your credit card details on our website and these have not been the subject of any theft.

As part of our efforts to resolve the issue, we have turned off the ability to register / log-on to racingpost.com. You will still be able to access the site safely. Members' club content will also be available.

However, we are contacting you now to request that you take all precautions and reset your passwords on any other site which uses the same password as the one you use on racingpost.com as soon as you can. If, for example, you use the same password for your bookmaker accounts, email accounts or for social media we advise you to reset them. Mine is one of the accounts involved and I will be changing my passwords. We understand how inconvenient this is - and can only apologise for any difficulty this causes - but feel it is necessary under the circumstances.

Once we are totally satisfied that using your account details on racingpost.com is completely secure, you will need to reset your password on our site. We will send you an email with instructions on how to do this. For security reasons, there will be no links on the email. You will need to visit the racingpost.com website to make the changes. For now, please proceed with changing your passwords (if the same as your racingpost.com password) on any other site.

If you have any questions, please contact Racing Post customer services on 01635 246505.

Please be assured that we are currently reviewing all of our security measures and will put in place even stronger protection to stop this happening again. Extensive changes have already been made overnight with the assistance of industry-leading cyber-security experts.

We are extremely sorry that this unfortunate incident has occurred and thank you for your patience and understanding.

We will be in touch in due course once we have re-established the registration / log-in part of the site.

Yours faithfully


Bruce Milllington
Editor
 
Very poor of the RP not to make users aware with an onsite message the moment they realized what was happening. An email 36 hours later is hardly damage control
 
I can't get the race cards into the format I'm used to and the site is so slow as to be near useless.
 
Desert Orchid said:
The email was in my junk mail.

B"gger. I'll have to change my password on a lot of accounts...

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Luckily I'd had a problem with my account a while back and changed to a new password which I don't use anywhere else. Otherwise I'd have the hump.
 
The RP is a shambolic webservice. A paid for site that has routine service issues and can't even look after log-in creditionals properly. Perhaps if they moved away from being the lap dogs of the bookmakers they might actually deliver something worth reading and using.
 
Their offices are in Canary Wharf so they are doin something right, I would love to work there, in the city working on racing 9-5. DREAM JOB!
 
The RP website is a clunky mess, and it comes as no surprise that someone has had their drawers down, because whoever runs it for them is clearly retarded to a greater than lesser extent.

The only good thing about the online RP is the form database. The rest of it is just a towering fountain of sh*it.
 
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The form database is genuinely good when it's working.

As you say, though, the rest of the site is hopeless. I've long since given up using it for anything else.
 
racingpost is not only the best web for horse racing
I think it is the best web in general

the service is superb and the price is quite cheap for the service they offer
 
The form database is, as I said, genuinely good and I'm prepared to pay for it.

On the other hand the news and comment sections are hopeless. I'd much rather use the Sporting Life and irishracing for that side of things.
 
Yep, the database is (mostly) great but is hemmed in by an absolute clunker of a site and search interface.
 
and the compensation for its members.............................a free Pricewise tip :lol::lol::lol::lol:
 
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