Ask HN: Received three password reset emails

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I received three password reset emails from Hacker News today that I did not initiate. The emails say just to ignore it but should I report it to anyone?

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Was it an email about someone attempting to change your password or was it an email requesting you TO change your password?

If it was the latter scenario, feel free to reach out and talk to the phishing scammer. Recently I had a great conversation with the guy sending out BTC-e phishing mail. We talked about where he bought his email list, how many people he has on it, and how he's just trying to get enough money to buy a safe house for his family. He sounded like a pretty decent guy aside from the fact that he's stolen about 20,000 litecoins so far.

It was from Hacker News. Someone was attempting to reset my password. I got three of these emails 2 minutes apart each. I wondered if it had to do with the recent heartbleed bug.

it sounds likely to be someone trying to reset the password for username "mattm". possibly malicious, though given its its "very common first name + first letter" format, it strikes as very possibly a confused user thinking it was theirs.

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