Jeremy Parish
patreon
A quick note on cyber blackmail
🕑 Added 2015-11-21 13:23:18 +0000 UTC Hi everyone, this morning I received an attempt at email extortion relating to the recent Patreon database leak. As patrons, this is not something you should need to worry about, as you won't have tendered critical information to Patreon like your social security number and tax documentation—only creators have to do that. Still, on the unlikely chance you do receive any sort of threat, blackmail, or extortion attempt relating to Patreon, please report it immediately to the FBI:https://www.fbi.gov/report-threats-and-crime
And this probably goes without saying, but don't pay blackmailers.
Comments
pimento
I am a mere patron of users (and I'm not in the US) so the email I just received from someone claiming to have my tax details and SSN shows how much of a scattershot approach is being taken here.
Gord Allott
I'm a software developer and a patreon account holder, so when the leak happened i grabbed it and checked it for any truly problematic details. the general gist of it is that it contains your email, some generic information no one cares about like your avatar and a hashed password. if you changed your password at all you are fine. there is nothing else people could of gotten from the leak
Eric Plunk
I thought this was going to be a post about Jax from Mortal Kombat.
