What should users do if they don't have their account email? (READ THE FIRST POST!)

[ncboilerPartDeux]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Warrior

You were ALL instructed to change your passwords before the breach.
That would have meant fixing your email first which would have taken a minute.

I am being helpful and have offered my time to do whatever I can.

I must have missed this. The email I used to set up my original account it no longer active. I know no one on this forum in real life.

[Eltbus1]

no worries. get a plane ticket to vegas and you can clear it up no problem. easy as that.

[Wraith1]

Im in the same boat. I know what my old email addy was that I used to register for alot of forums but now that email is no longer available to me. I can list the email and Im still using the same ip, so I dont know what to do either since I cant reeive the reset now.

[r0llin_game]

Originally Posted by nbajam2

Way to be helpful. We obviously expected 2p2 to have a major security breach and to never be able to access our accounts with our user name and password like we have for 8 years again.

I know when I change email addresses this is the first place I think of, because I get so many emails from here.

I know I have like 0 post but I can vouch for nbajam2 as being nbajam. Have met/stayed with him numerous times.

[mapleleaf]

I'm in that same boat. I no longer have access to the email I used when I registered. I can provide details of a PM conversation I had with a green user if you can use that for verification.

[dfver]

Used my email to change my password. It gave me a new user name and i lost all my post and old username any help? as you can see i joined 2006.

[caseycjc]

Did 2+2 send an email out to everyone notifying that the forums are back up? If not this might be helpful particularly for those that have multiple email accounts and aren't sure which one they used.

P.S.
If you guys did send out a notification I didn't get one and I'm filing a a suit for prejudice

[Mat Sklansky]

that will happen soon. need to see if we can for a few hours without crashing first.

[Wraith1]

I dont suppose some sort of IP verification will be possible or some other method for those of us having this email issue?

[aig1]

Hmm... Using emails as the only source of identification is just as bad and slightly less bad as using previous passwords. So for us who no longer have access to our old email addresses - not only we cannot restore our account, but someone else, who is now in control of our email (not necessarily via fraudulent methods) can hijack our identity.

[O. Prime]

NEVER MIND - Was told this was a firefox thing.

[Wraith1]

The next coming week is going to be a headache (for all the mods/admins) and I hope the one mod Ive had a conversation with can also help me in that regard. It's a shame but hopefully its a solution.

Id have np faxing a copy of ID or whatever to Mat if he found that sufficient. Hopefully more solutions become available. It's just a big mess and alot of people are going to be in this situation. =(

[atakdog]

O., see my post about this in Pub — that sounds like a browser dropdown, asking you which password you want to change in its memory. I get that dropdown every time in firefox every time I change a password; chrome handles it differently but atm I forget the details.

[NoAccessToEmail]

Same problem here Don't know what email I used and it's one I no longer have access to Same as someone above can provide details of PMs etc Just want my account back

[atakdog]

Anyone have reason to believe that twelve characters, random (upper/lower/numbers/symbols) isn't good enough?