Did XDA forums get hacked?

[crazynapkinman]

Did xda get hacked? I keep seeing these post about "powerful black magic". What the heck is up with XDA?

 

[Mikestony]

Not sure...I'm not seeing it.
I clicked through several of my subscribed forums/threads but not seeing anything out of the ordinary.

Are you getting a pop up of some sort or are you seeing posts about it?
Can you post a link or screenshot of it?

 

[crazynapkinman]

Here's what I keep seeing.

 

[crazynapkinman]

It won't let me unsub either. Is it my own account on there or tapatalk that has been hacked?

 

[Mikestony]

Looks like some sort of spam at their end.
I just checked my device on Tapa/Feed, and I'm not seeing it.

That's odd...
I googled "powerful black magic xda" via my computer and came up with a hit but the url's are error 404...so they must have caught it.

Refresh perhaps?

 

[crazynapkinman]

Comes back after each refresh.

 

[Mikestony]

try going to that "three bar line" at the top right, click it, and go to XDA (get out of the "feed" part of Tapa to get to your "trending/timeline/unread/subscribed" choices)

 

[crazynapkinman]

Nothing there. Just the feed in tapatalk... So it sounds like tapa has been hacked...

 

[Mikestony]

Nothing there. Just the feed in tapatalk... So it sounds like tapa has been hacked...

I don't think I'd go that far...I think they had some spam:
Every link I click on after searching, errors out, so I think it may be residual spam crap?

 

[crazynapkinman]

So stupid... Wonder what country set that bot up?

 

[Mikestony]

So stupid... Wonder what country set that bot up?

lol, yeah..you'd be surprised by the amount of spam we get here

 

[EarlyMon]

Clear cache in TT.

 

[crazynapkinman]

Didn't work

 

[crazynapkinman]

Even tried uninstalling and reinstalling.

 

[Mikestony]

Sign out and sign back in?

I would surmise it will eventually go away but in the meantime, what about rebooting the phone?
I'm not sure what else to do except just ignore it for now

Edit: oh, just saw your post, sorry.
Wow, still there eh?

 

[crazynapkinman]

Probably will just have to ignore it. Idk why I'm subscribed to it though. Doesn't make sense.

 

[Mikestony]

What about "mark as read"?

 

[crazynapkinman]

There is no mark as read. Just a quote, thumbs up, thumbs down, and share.

 

[Mikestony]

"3 bar icon" click it, click on "XDA", click on 3 bar again, mark as read.?

 

[crazynapkinman]

Didn't work. I think it's because I an somehow subscribed to them. And when I try to unsub it doesn't work.

 

[Mikestony]

Subscribed to a feed? I'm not understanding
Or the forums/threads where the spam occurred in?
You may have to unsub from a computer then?
Geez dude, I'm out of idears here

 

[Hadron]

That's just spam. Indeed I've seen that same spambot post at AF - you probably haven't because they get deleted and banned quite quickly (as a former Guide I still look out for this stuff).

You should just report this stuff if you see it.

As for the subscription hypothesis, try visiting XDA via a browser rather than an app and see whether (a) you really are subscribed and (b) you can do anything from there.