Posted December 16, 2010
I got what looked like a legitimate, official notification from Gawker in my email box, telling me that they'd been hacked, and that I needed to reset my password. Two flags were raised.
#1) I never signed up for a Gawker account. I didn't know what Gawker was until the whole thing came down. I might have glanced over a kotaku page or two, by PCGamer is more my thing.
#2) This notification came to an email box that I never use. It was the complimentary email account given to me by HughesNet for being a customer. The only reason I found it was there in the inbox was because account's "New Mail" notification is part of my personalized HughesNet homepage when I launch my browser.
The links provided in the email, when viewed in the link destination preview, went to gawker.com, and not "gawker-email.com" or some phony site like that, so I don't know what to make of it. Barring some lost memory of signing up for a Gawker related account suddenly popping up in the crystalline wasteland that is my mind, I'm just going to assume it's still a trick and just trash it.
#1) I never signed up for a Gawker account. I didn't know what Gawker was until the whole thing came down. I might have glanced over a kotaku page or two, by PCGamer is more my thing.
#2) This notification came to an email box that I never use. It was the complimentary email account given to me by HughesNet for being a customer. The only reason I found it was there in the inbox was because account's "New Mail" notification is part of my personalized HughesNet homepage when I launch my browser.
The links provided in the email, when viewed in the link destination preview, went to gawker.com, and not "gawker-email.com" or some phony site like that, so I don't know what to make of it. Barring some lost memory of signing up for a Gawker related account suddenly popping up in the crystalline wasteland that is my mind, I'm just going to assume it's still a trick and just trash it.
