Attn Staff: Google says Gravatar site may be hacked

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  micawbr · Member · Sep 24, 2015 at 11:36 pm

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  Since Gravatar support is closed, I thought I drop a note in here to let staff know that Google has flagged gravatar.com with a “This site may be hacked.” warning. Here’s a screenshot: https://cloudup.com/cC_Kl4trGJK

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  supernovia · Staff · Sep 24, 2015 at 11:57 pm

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  Thanks for the heads up, @micawbr ! Gravatar.com itself is okay, for what it’s worth, but we’ll figure out what’s causing that and fix it. Cheers!

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  melursus · Member · Oct 7, 2015 at 11:51 pm

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  Any updates on this?

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 9, 2015 at 6:50 am

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  Basically, while Gravatar wasn’t hacked, Google thought someone’s profile was spammy and assumed it was hacked. We fixed that one, but they’re finding others they don’t like. We’ll keep working on this. Cheers!

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  melursus · Member · Oct 9, 2015 at 6:58 am

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  Thanks

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 9, 2015 at 4:39 pm

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  No problem. Cheers!

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  cmonachi · Member · Oct 12, 2015 at 10:49 pm

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  Still in progress? How many accounts are being considered “spammy”? Sounds a bit concerning to me…

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 13, 2015 at 6:41 pm

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  Basically, if someone creates a profile then links to a website Google doesn’t like, they’re flagging the entire site instead of just that profile. We are working on a fix. :)

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  cmonachi · Member · Oct 13, 2015 at 6:47 pm

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  Gotcha, thank you for the update @supernovia

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  supernovia · Staff · Oct 16, 2015 at 11:23 pm

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  No problem. We’ll keep at it. :)