The Erotic Highway
Unfair
No problems for me. I had 4 viewed, 2 favs and one message. Sent a reply, plus a new message to one of the profiles that favorited me.
Hope they fix this shit ASAP!
Life is good
The Cat
And Seeking must have invoked some type of "bad actor" protocol without investigating. I wonder if they punched the kill button before they processed your support request?
Questions:
1. When did you last change your SA password?
2. Do you use your SA password on any other site?
3. Have you tried a google search of your user-name, a search of your password? (This can often tell you if your credentials have been stolen and posted)
4. PC ani-virus up to date?
5. Any recent POT's that acted suspicious or scammer-like? This totally sucks and will put a serious dent in your sugar life. Wondering if you can find some other communication vector to a senior exec at SA who can bypass the bullshit "no response" teams?
I'd say Life is good, but this sucks! The Cat
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Looks like using a VPN is now your most important tool. Fortunately, there are inexpensive VPN apps for PC's and phones available.
As to your answers to my questions, here's my feedback/speculation:
1. Seeking as a platform probably was not hacked. If it was, many more users would be reporting odd behavior and SA would have sent a (legally required) notice to all user who may have been impacted.
2. More likely, your login and password were compromised, probably some time ago, and were sold as part of a list of "cracked" accounts on the dark web. It's unlikely that a potential "pig butcher" would do this to you since there is no money in it for them. They probably would not bother spending time on anything that doesn't lead to cash.
3. Along with now setting up a VPN on your device - you can set one up to start every time you power on your PC - you must keep your anti-virus updated and on at all times. Set it to auto-update virus definition and continuously scan in the background. In addition enable it to auto-scan any file you download, and to auto-scan any website you visit.
4. Change all your passwords now - even the non-sugar sites. If your Seeking credentials have been compromised, its likely the rest of your accounts are compromised as well. If possible, also change your user ID (i.e. If you use "sweetman" today, change it to "sweetman1", or "sweetdude" etc. I do this once every 6 months for all my online accounts. It takes me about 4 hours to crawl across all of my bookmarks, but it's time well spent.
5. Do a google search of your user ID's and passwords at least once every 90 days. If you get any hits, make changes. Tools I use:
1. Nord VPN
2. Norton Anti-virus. I have a 5-device license.
You will bounce back from this, I have no doubt!
Life is good
The Cat