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Smokey seems to have nailed it. Except for the "hacked" part.
No one knows the list was hacked and if it was hacked it was not once. It appears it was hacked on a constant basis. No proof it was hacked or was not hacked has been seen.
This is from John's post and I apologise if I got it wrong.
The problem came to light a few months ago.
He thought he had fixed it.
He notified at risk clients.
The system existed for the client to lock down his data on NATS.
This is what others have said.
When told about the problem of spam John blamed the clients system. It has been claimed he threatened legal action to stop people spreading "mis information". He did not take legal action.
As soon as it hit here some sponsors were able to identify the problem, find the IP address logging in, when it logged in and how it logged in. It was not hard to find and it seems they blocked it. No explanation has come from TMM of why TMM failed to do this.
To my knowledge, none of his clients have come forward to say TMM notified or warned them of the problem. Before the news hit the boards.
To my knowledge, no email was sent to insist clients use the system already in place to further protect their data.
To my knowledge, the safer system was not put up as the default set up.
As I said the above may not be 100% because I missed something on the boards.
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