For a few days i’ve been trying to get to Practical Fish Keeping but i keep getting the message below
“Practical Fishkeeping is currently offline for maintenance and should be back up and running shortly.”
Practical Fishkeeping
They have also sent this email out to all registered users, its a shame as the whole website is down and has been for at least 3 days.
“Dear Practical Fishkeeping website user
Why are we contacting you?
You have received this message because you are a registered user of our website practicalfishkeeping.co.uk.
We have been made aware that hackers have breached our website security. This is a criminal offence, and information on our register about our readers (usernames, passwords, email addresses, postal addresses and in some cases telephone numbers) may have been viewed or taken.
What are we doing?
We have taken immediate action to preserve the privacy and security of the data held by us, and are doing all we can to investigate exactly what has happened and to ensure that it cannot happen again. We have notified the Police and the Information Commissioner.
Practicalfishkeeping.co.uk is currently offline until security has been restored. You will be notified as soon as Practicalfishkeeping.co.uk is live again, and we are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience, but the security of our users is of paramount importance to us.
What should you do?
It is possible that the hackers might seek to use the information they have to commit identity fraud. You should be extra vigilant about checking for unexpected activity on your credit cards or bank accounts, and follow Home Office advice when using the Internet:
see http://links.special…zYS1&mt=1&rt=0.
If you used your password for practicalfishkeeping.co.uk for other websites, you should change those passwords.
How can I contact you?
Further information please contact matt.clarke@bauermedia.co.uk
It only remains for me to say how very sorry I am about what is a very upsetting and disruptive situation for us all.
Matt Clarke
Editor-in-Chief
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Richard Tucker says:
I may have been the first person who discovered this as my wifes details were used to hack in our email account ( shared the same password as PFK ). I searched for her email address on google and found the user /password list on a website. I spotted many of the passwords were fishy related and notified PFK.
The user account / password list has since been removed from google. I notice that the site is still down. I sent repeated emails and finally Matt Clarke sent the email to all users. He had known about this for a number of days before the email was sent.
Cheers
Richard
Richard Tucker says:
I recommend you change all related passwords. If you have a paypal account and it shares the same password as your PFK password, then it may be used by hackers.
Rory Lofthouse says:
Very interesting to read your comments.
anemone-clown says:
Hi, we relate this bad news in France. Have you any notice that the site will be up one day?
Richard says:
Does anyone know when/if the site is coming back on line?
I really miss the forum, it had some of the UKs most knowledgeable fishkeepers on it.
Rory Lofthouse says:
Not sure the website has completly gone, try http://www.ultimatereef.net