This evening i was contacted by FlatStats (another horse racing database service) informing me that HorseRaceBase had been subject to a hack in January of this year.
One minute later this site also posted a message on their forum advising people of the same thing, this was followed by someone describing our site as suspicious.
Before speaking on the hack issue, let me state categorically HRB is certainly not suspicious. I created it personally and thanks to your support it keeps growing (to the point now where clearly someone views us as worth targetting). Every single thing we do comes after discussion with members and the nature of the site is completely based around honesty and integrity. I am confident enough in my relationship with members to believe this will shine through.
I appreciate fully if you have read anything else before visiting HRB the hacking sounds bad and would immediately apologise to anyone who was alarmed and also to those who may have received junk email, which being completely honest may obviously have arisen as a result of this.
The only information held in the HorseRaceBase members account is your login, password and email address. Nothing else. We do suggest in our help guide that all members change their password regularly but i know myself, this is something we all very rarely get round to. Please do so now. There is a link on your homepage once logged in.
Feel free as always to email me if you have any concerns at all. We shall be taking every step possible to ensure this doesnt happen again and along with several upgrades and new features will be implementing additional security checks at each point (behind the scenes) very soon.
Again my apologies for this issue and thanks for your ongoing support.
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