Comments on: Slingshot caching private pages!

By: Jonny Nguyen

Jonny Nguyen — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 16:39:03 +0000

yes, I absolutely agree with you, I am working on it too, check out my site to learn more, thanks.

By: TUi

TUi — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 03:59:01 +0000

I read about this in the herald, very scary – especially for you Rachel!

By: Rowan

Rowan — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:55:08 +0000

Yes, I saw into others’ accounts too, and couldn’t get into mine.
It is very concerning.
I contacted one of the account holders by phone (googled his name) and on checking his account he found he was able to open someone else’s mail!
I also saw people’s home addresses, details of their ‘dating’ site contacts, ect.

Further – just rang slingshot, and the fellow on the phone denied it was them – but I am going to end my account with them (if they are responsible – and especially if they are trying to play it down or sweep it under the carpet…)

scary stuff…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 00:02:01 +0000

Slingshot emailed me back and said that the 12 month minimun contract will not apply if I want to change to another provider after this incident, so if anybody else wants to as well now is the time.

By: Linda

Linda — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:45:27 +0000

Yes same happened to me, for about 15minutes kept trying to log in to gmail but got someone elses gmail, in nz. I thought it was the fault of gmail, but see now its slingshot fault, not good

By: Jacob

Jacob — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:20:34 +0000

Rachel is right, people keep trying and refreshing pages because they are concerned about what is happening and want to see their own account.

Slingshot said they received 20 complaints last night, however there would have been a lot more people effected. There are always those who don’t complain, but the fact is that the majority would have naturally assumed it was an error with the website and not their ISP’s fault.

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:04:43 +0000

You could probably have accessed your gmail using https://www.gmail.com as that typically will prevent proxy servers from caching those pages. Not sure whether facebook would allow this