# has this board been hacked? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [June 30, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170 "2017-06-30T00:37:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/1 "2017-06-30T00:37:24Z")
I’ve noticed some odd things. Old users who haven’t posted in years seem to be resurrecting to post nonsense. a poster who signed up on april fools day 2009, and never made a post chose today to make his first and it was one of the seemingly endless posts in the last couple of days on funerals. what’s up? or am I being paranoid? mc ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/2 "2017-06-30T00:38:19Z")
What’s the frequency, Kenneth? ---
**Author:** ![mikecurtis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mikecurtis/32/3284_2.png) [@mikecurtis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mikecurtis)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/3 "2017-06-30T00:48:49Z")
nevermind, I didn’t notice it was the same poster who has been raising zombies all over the places. Mods are on it! mc ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/4 "2017-06-30T05:35:20Z")
I’ve noticed the only two other posters in this thread both start with a lowercase m and have three syllables. Suspicious. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Biotop](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biotop/32/321_2.png) [@Biotop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biotop)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/5 "2017-06-30T06:29:30Z")
Funeral is an anagram of real fun. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/6 "2017-06-30T06:43:46Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > I’ve noticed the only two other posters in this thread both start with a lowercase m and have three syllables. Suspicious. :dubious: Have you ever seen us in the same room at the same time? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/7 "2017-06-30T14:42:42Z")
On the contrary. Yesterday, after posting here, I got a nice notice from some completely anonymous people in Bulgaria letting me know that my files had been encrypted. I assume that means accidentally corrupted. They offered to fix that for me for a very modest price of $300. Just goes to prove that acts of kindness still exist even in our jaded world today. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2017, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-this-board-been-hacked/790170/8 "2017-06-30T14:58:16Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > On the contrary. Yesterday, after posting here, I got a nice notice from some completely anonymous people in Bulgaria letting me know that my files had been encrypted. I assume that means accidentally corrupted. They offered to fix that for me for a very modest price of $300. Just goes to prove that acts of kindness still exist even in our jaded world today. " So shines a good deed in a weary world." -W.W.