UK BOINC Team Forum

Not to sure if this is the right place to talk about this, if not would you please excuse me. Also if one of the moderators wants to move this please feel free to do so.

Just been checking team stats page and discovered that I did not have a listing for Einstein  :shock:
Went to Einstein project page, checked my details and discovered that I had been attached to a team called U.K. Boinc.  :evil:

I have not changed my team status for any of the projects which I crunch for, and have no idea who this "other team" are.
Account details altered back to what they should be, ie:- the BEST uk team :- UK BOINC TEAM

Anyone else know of this happening before, who this "other" lot may be, and how to stop it happening again. Is this a case of identity theft, do you suppose. Cheap way to get a good team total by hijacking another teams members.  :x

I am wondering whether I ought to report this on the Einstein site forum pages.

Any comments on this would be welcome.

UBT - The Prof.... wrote:Not to sure if this is the right place to talk about this, if not would you please excuse me. Also if one of the moderators wants to move this please feel free to do so.

Just been checking team stats page and discovered that I did not have a listing for Einstein  :shock:
Went to Einstein project page, checked my details and discovered that I had been attached to a team called U.K. Boinc.  :evil:

I have not changed my team status for any of the projects which I crunch for, and have no idea who this "other team" are.
Account details altered back to what they should be, ie:- the BEST uk team :- UK BOINC TEAM

Anyone else know of this happening before, who this "other" lot may be, and how to stop it happening again. Is this a case of identity theft, do you suppose. Cheap way to get a good team total by hijacking another teams members.  :x

I am wondering whether I ought to report this on the Einstein site forum pages.

Any comments on this would be welcome.

Hi Bob,

Two things:

1) Do you use BAM or any other account manager?
It is possible that such a manager might have inadvertently altered the team you are joined to...it shouldn't happen, but with so much "data" being chucked around, it *could* happen.

2) Please report this to Einstein admin's asap.
They may be able to find the change in the logs and then find out whether it happened as a result of a mistake or something more sinister.

Either way, please change your password on this and every other project (if they are all the same) "just in case".

regards,

Tim

Thanks Tim, have posted the following on the Einstein site :-

Went to my team stats page and could not find my Einstein results. On checking back here found that my team had been changed form UK BOINC Team to U.K. Boinc. I did not make this change, and have no intention of changing teams now or in the future. I have reset to the correct team and changed my password so as to, hopefuly, stop this being done again. I would like to know how this was done, and what measures can be taken to stop what is effectivly identity theft from occuring again.

I will see what response this gets. Hope this is not going to be an on-going issue. Now going round changing all my project passwords to make sure this doesn't happen anywhere else.

I've just done some updating on the stats and as far as I can see it hasn't happened to anyone else. A member called 'Gary' seems to have an ongoing identity crisis I don't think it's related.

Mike

it was a while ago but it does seem to have happened before see here

UBT - Mikee wrote:A member called 'Gary' seems to have an ongoing identity crisis I don't think it's related.

Mike

Know what you mean , different species every post, in one he even thought he was a Toad  :D  :lol:  :lol:

Gary wrote:

UBT - Mikee wrote:A member called 'Gary' seems to have an ongoing identity crisis I don't think it's related.

Mike

Know what you mean , different species every post, in one he even thought he was a Toad  :D  :lol:  :lol:

Maybe he is a spy? a master of disguise, always inFrognito :dontknow:



Secret Squirrel.

Temujin wrote:it was a while ago but it does seem to have happened before see here

That's a weird thing I noticed at the time. Note, though, that the movements are internal (oo-er!) from UKBT to UKBT not BUK or UK Boinc - so it's a different 'fault'!

UBT - Mikee wrote:

Temujin wrote:it was a while ago but it does seem to have happened before see here

That's a weird thing I noticed at the time. Note, though, that the movements are internal (oo-er!) from UKBT to UKBT not BUK or UK Boinc - so it's a different 'fault'!

look again, thats member movement for UK BOINC

I can remember when I first joined the team (a dark day for everyone) back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I posted somewhere in here that on signing up for one of the projects (can't remember that far back) that I'd become a member of that team even though I'd clicked to join UBT.



Gary.

UBT - Mikee wrote:

Temujin wrote:it was a while ago but it does seem to have happened before see here

That's a weird thing I noticed at the time. Note, though, that the movements are internal (oo-er!) from UKBT to UKBT not BUK or UK Boinc - so it's a different 'fault'!

Told you I'm not at my best first thing! I know I did join the wrong team at the outset at about that time - thought it was earlier though. Tim (I think) made me see the light!