Worrying fall out from Gun trader leak

This is a helpful tool of you would like to check which of your account details have been leaked.

Just put in your email address and search. It will tell you where and when the breach happened and what info was exposed.

I tried this after the leak, sure enough guntrader came up...
 
Issues may arise is you report to the police a stranger knocking your door asking you about your guns and giving you some veiled threats of reprisal for hunting . - Friend of a reliable friend has had his firearms seized by the police as he reported a unknown female who was stalking him over a number months. Due to the fact things may escalate he has had his firearms taken off him until rectified, female has now been tracked down but firearms still not returned.
 
As far as I'm concerned, if someone comes to my house and knocks on my door using illegally obtained data on the dark web i will take that as a threat and respond appropriately. On their heads be it.
Just be careful what you do, whilst in work last month I got punched in the face and the police were called, police attended at the time, as the only witness was the assailant son who denied the incident happened so no further action was being taken. As it happened whilst in work I had to attend the police station at 7.30 am the following morning to make a statement of the fact. At 8.45 am that morning I received a phone call from my FEO office - who questioned my for 15 mins on the incident and asking me about “are my guns staying locked away in the cabinet” - luckily that is the end of this matter, but if I had reacted and the assailants son said I punched them, I guess I would be fighting to get my guns back right now.
 
Just be careful what you do, whilst in work last month I got punched in the face and the police were called, police attended at the time, as the only witness was the assailant son who denied the incident happened so no further action was being taken. As it happened whilst in work I had to attend the police station at 7.30 am the following morning to make a statement of the fact. At 8.45 am that morning I received a phone call from my FEO office - who questioned my for 15 mins on the incident and asking me about “are my guns staying locked away in the cabinet” - luckily that is the end of this matter, but if I had reacted and the assailants son said I punched them, I guess I would be fighting to get my guns back right now.
I get that, thankfully I know a bit about the local police 😉
 
I wonder how many people on the list are actually still at that address or have that email or phone number. I checked and mine is at least 12 years out of date. I have had three adresses since then and changed email provider, phone number and even country.
I'm also in the fortunate position that both my email address and home address has changed since registering. I imagine we're in the minority though? But even if not, those who've had their data compromised are still in a pretty compromising position. These Hunting Leaks idiots need to be stopped. It's an absolute outrage that law-abiding innocent people are being hounded and vilified by arseholes with a personal vendetta who seem to think the law doesn't apply to them
 
Many thanks to the OP and subsequent ones for raising this issue and technical support. Now attended to, even though it was years ago when I listed something on gun trader.

O.P
 
Guys, by putting this link on an open website we are providing all our information to anyone who wants to find it. Would you put your contact details on this site, I wouldn’t!

The more places this is mentioned the more place the antis can find it. We are helping their cause.
 
Well I followed the instructions on the website zoomed into my address and there I am email mobile and landline and username…. And address ffs
 
The Gunny gun gun file has been downloaded many times by now so I guess having your details removed from the one held on Google drive is not much of a help.

I notice that the file has data listed as PasswordHash for each person...is that decipherable?...I am presuming so.

Alan
I asked for the whole file to be removed from Google drive, I doubt Google would delete individual people's data from that file. If the people who want the data have to go on the dark web to get it then all kinds of unpleasantness may befall them. Going to a Google drive link poses no risk at all. I'd rather it wasn't as easy and accessible.
 
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I asked for the whole file to be removed from Google drive, I doubt Google would delete individual people's data from that file. If the people who want the data have to go on the dark web to get it then all kinds of unpleasantness may befall them. Going to a Google drive link poses no risk at all. I'd rather it wasn't as easy and accessible.
I did wonder how that would work...I was confused by your instructions for others to follow suit if you had already asked for the whole file to be removed...or do you think Google need more than one request before they will act?

I am now geared up to ask any unwelcome visitor for their telephone, email and postal address and to offer to visit them at their home in order to discuss my views on guns and gun ownership, possibly in the company of a boy in blue.

Alan
 
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I did wonder how that would work...I was confused by your instructions for others to follow suit if you had already asked for the whole file to be removed...or do you think Google need more than one request before they will act?

I am now geared up to ask any unwelcome visitor for their telephone, email and postal address and to offer to visit them at their home in order to discuss my views on guns and gun ownership, possibly in the company of a boy in blue.

Alan
I don't know whether google would delete parts of a file that were being shared, but I doubt it as they would more likely delete or prevent the whole file from being shared. This is because there are thousands of people's names etc in the file so they aren't going to go through it and delete that line, it just isn't practical. I expect they deal with these kind of requests based on priority, the more people complain about a particular file, the more likely they are to deal with it quickly as it has a higher priority if more people complain about it. My logic was that these requests will be quicker wins for Google if they can deal with multiple complaints by blocking a single file.

I checked the password encryption in the file and thankfully guntrader have at least used a fairly decent encryption algorithm which means around 3 days per password for a dedicated, technically skilled person with the right hardware to run the decrypter on. There are 111322 passwords in that file. That at least reduces the chances of each of our passwords being decrypted soon, so if you change the one you were using for guntrader, and anywhere else you were using that password, then you are likely to safeguard yourself against anyone decrypting it and using it to gain access to any other accounts you might have.

We can't undo our data being put out in the public domain but we can mitigate the effects of it.
 
I don't know whether google would delete parts of a file that were being shared, but I doubt it as they would more likely delete or prevent the whole file from being shared. This is because there are thousands of people's names etc in the file so they aren't going to go through it and delete that line, it just isn't practical. I expect they deal with these kind of requests based on priority, the more people complain about a particular file, the more likely they are to deal with it quickly as it has a higher priority if more people complain about it. My logic was that these requests will be quicker wins for Google if they can deal with multiple complaints by blocking a single file.

I checked the password encryption in the file and thankfully guntrader have at least used a fairly decent encryption algorithm which means around 3 days per password for a dedicated, technically skilled person with the right hardware to run the decrypter on. There are 111322 passwords in that file. That at least reduces the chances of each of our passwords being decrypted soon, so if you change the one you were using for guntrader, and anywhere else you were using that password, then you are likely to safeguard yourself against anyone decrypting it and using it to gain access to any other accounts you might have.

We can't undo our data being put out in the public domain but we can mitigate the effects of it.
Hopefully Google use your logic as it would make sense to delete the whole file. Just hope that other similar sites ramp up their security to prevent anything like this happening again.
 
I just don’t understand how it’s legal to put this stuff on your website and incite members to use the stolen details to harass people?

They might not have stolen the details but they are using them which is equally culpable in my mind.
 
by keep sharing this imformation arent you just making it more available and maybe even making yourselfs liable
I think the damage has been done, nothing we are discussing can bring these details/data back...discussing the best way to counter the problem is not going to make it any worse.

One of the original warnings was not to download the hacked file to check if you were on it, because there were versions already laced with malware. Hunting leaks may be running a double bluff by posting the link to a virus riddled file to shooting sites!

Has anybody contacted their FLO with this Hunting leaks site?

Alan
 
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