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Unfortunate LibraryThing profile comment
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You may have recently received a very spammy profile comment from a member on LibraryThing. We?and
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You may have recently received a very spammy profile comment from a member on LibraryThing. We—and I—are very sorry about this.
Here's what happened:
A Russian bot created a member account on LibraryThing and sent many spam messages through our profile comment system. LibraryThing had a system to stop such things, but the system failed to work.
You may have also received the comment in your email, if your account is currently set to send profile comment notifications to your email address.
It’s important to note that your email address was not shared with anyone, or hacked. Rather, someone used LibraryThing's comment system to send you a comment.
What we've done:
The spam account has been deleted, and we've removed the comment from all affected comment/profile pages.
We've also fixed the system that failed to stop this, and added a second layer of checks on comment sending. We are evaluating other checks we can add, to make this sort of thing even harder.
What you can do:
If you did receive an email, we recommend you delete it, and don't click on any of the links in it.
If you'd like to turn off the automatic emailing of comment notifications, you can do so from your account settings on LibraryThing: .
Join us on Talk if you have any other questions:
We care about keeping this the best book site out there, and regret that this abuse of our system happened, and slipped by us.
Thank you for your patience and for being a part of what makes LibraryThing great!
Best,
Tim Spalding LibraryThing Founder and President
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