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PART 1: IMPORTANT!!! Pirate 4x4, JeepForum, WranglerForum, etc. etc. members, please read. This DOES NOT INCLUDE CJ-8.com (more on that in a second in Part 2)
VerticalScope, the company that's been buying up hundreds of online automotive (and many other) forums LIKE ours (BUT NOT OURS!), was massively hacked and 45 MILLION accounts were stolen, likely with the ability for the hackers to access the passwords attached to the usernames due to lax security practices:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker...reds-of-verticalscope-car-tech-sports-forums/
If you have any accounts on the major (ad-crippled) automotive forums you'll want to change your password there and if you use the same login/pass combination anywhere else (a bad idea), you'll want to change them all.
There's a good site run by a major security expert to check if your username (if you use one many times) and/or email is a part of any of the major public data breaches: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
PART 2: Again: THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THIS FORUM However, if you use a user/pass combination here that you used on any of the VerticalScope forums, you'll want to change your password here too: use this link to change your CJ-8.com password
Long time members have heard me talk about the fact that this particular company has tried repeatedly to buy CJ-8.com but that Matt (forum owner) and I have agreed that we won't let the lure of a payday compromise what we've worked so hard to build here over the FOURTEEN years that CJ-8.com has been around.
Anyone who's been on any of those sites knows that they cripple them with EVERY POSSIBLE type of ad, popup, text ad links, sponsored posts in the middle of threads, etc. etc. etc. to the point that they're essentially unusable in order to FORCE people to pay for memberships. They're banking on the fact that there's so much information on the site that people will have no choice but to pony up and will accept the ones that leave after they cripple the site. So they're generating ad revenue out the ying-yang WHILE forcing millions of membership payments that make our memberships look puny.
We want people to WANT to pay for memberships here to help defray the costs of hosting and ongoing software updates (we're on the most current VBulletin platform, btw). This is not a money-making operation by any definition, we just want to keep this place running and ad-free.
Our yearly memberships cost LESS THAN ONE TANK OF GAS! Think about the amount of fun, information, camaraderie, etc. that you get from this site on a daily or weekly basis and then think about what that's worth to you.
It would cost more to buy just one large fancy mocha/coffee A MONTH than it does to be a paid member here.
Please consider supporting the forum with a paid membership if you're not already. And to those who are, we thank you for helping us keep the forum out of the clutches of screwball companies like VerticalScope.
BECOME A PAID FORUM MEMBER, CLICK HERE
VerticalScope, the company that's been buying up hundreds of online automotive (and many other) forums LIKE ours (BUT NOT OURS!), was massively hacked and 45 MILLION accounts were stolen, likely with the ability for the hackers to access the passwords attached to the usernames due to lax security practices:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker...reds-of-verticalscope-car-tech-sports-forums/
If you have any accounts on the major (ad-crippled) automotive forums you'll want to change your password there and if you use the same login/pass combination anywhere else (a bad idea), you'll want to change them all.
There's a good site run by a major security expert to check if your username (if you use one many times) and/or email is a part of any of the major public data breaches: https://haveibeenpwned.com/
PART 2: Again: THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE THIS FORUM However, if you use a user/pass combination here that you used on any of the VerticalScope forums, you'll want to change your password here too: use this link to change your CJ-8.com password
Long time members have heard me talk about the fact that this particular company has tried repeatedly to buy CJ-8.com but that Matt (forum owner) and I have agreed that we won't let the lure of a payday compromise what we've worked so hard to build here over the FOURTEEN years that CJ-8.com has been around.
Anyone who's been on any of those sites knows that they cripple them with EVERY POSSIBLE type of ad, popup, text ad links, sponsored posts in the middle of threads, etc. etc. etc. to the point that they're essentially unusable in order to FORCE people to pay for memberships. They're banking on the fact that there's so much information on the site that people will have no choice but to pony up and will accept the ones that leave after they cripple the site. So they're generating ad revenue out the ying-yang WHILE forcing millions of membership payments that make our memberships look puny.
We want people to WANT to pay for memberships here to help defray the costs of hosting and ongoing software updates (we're on the most current VBulletin platform, btw). This is not a money-making operation by any definition, we just want to keep this place running and ad-free.
Our yearly memberships cost LESS THAN ONE TANK OF GAS! Think about the amount of fun, information, camaraderie, etc. that you get from this site on a daily or weekly basis and then think about what that's worth to you.
It would cost more to buy just one large fancy mocha/coffee A MONTH than it does to be a paid member here.
Please consider supporting the forum with a paid membership if you're not already. And to those who are, we thank you for helping us keep the forum out of the clutches of screwball companies like VerticalScope.
BECOME A PAID FORUM MEMBER, CLICK HERE
