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Post by ali on Nov 17, 2017 17:59:41 GMT
We have only had two reports of issues - one relating to Chrome and one to Firefox. If it was widespread we would have expected a lot more reports. Interestingly the Firefox user later confirmed it had only started today - after an update of Firefox - and that they apparently had no problem using Chrome. Will investigate further to try and resolve the annoyance FundingSecure The issue I am seeing (which is only with the login timeouts) started happening at the same time your web site went down for a while. I'm currently running Firefox ESR 52.4.0 under CentOS 6. The update log says that firefox 52.4.0 was installed on 30th September so it doesn't look like that was the trigger.
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Post by ali on Nov 17, 2017 15:14:34 GMT
I'm getting connection issues all the time on the website since the issues this week; it always errors out on the following URL: www.fundingsecure.com/myaccount/index.phpBut that URL seems to be the issue no matter what link I'm clicking - Available Investments, My Investments, All Active and Past loans etc. This is happening in Chrome, error message I get is: This page isn’t working www.fundingsecure.com redirected you too many times. Try clearing your cookies. ERR_TOO_MANY_REDIRECTS I have tried clearing Cache / Cookies Anyone else seeing this? Yes. The redirect to the login page if your login has timed out isn't working. I have the login page bookmarked and I just manually go there when it happens. Easy enough workaround, if a little annoying.
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Post by ali on Nov 17, 2017 10:18:18 GMT
Pictures from yesterday (2017-11-16):
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Post by ali on Nov 14, 2017 22:29:35 GMT
Proboard profiles do already have such a facility. If you look at mine, you will see a location set. Whether it is searchable is another question of course. I've had a scout around on proboards, nothing jumps out. I've put in a support request. Dear admin, this is just to see if it's doable-ish before asking you if you are keen willing and able I don't want to presume anything Sorry, that wasn't meant to be cryptic. I thought it would be obvious. First, click on Profile on the top menu bar (between Members and Bookmarks) which takes you here: Click on "Edit Profile" as shown which takes you here: Click on the "Personal" tab which takes you here: Type your location into the text box shown.
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Post by ali on Nov 14, 2017 17:38:36 GMT
But doesn't that just show you about yourself? I guess you might mean the 'members' tab, from which you can select a member and see (some) details about them. I think adding new items to the member display (like where they live) would require Admin to do something, if not proboards themselves .. and that still wouldn't help if a member was visiting a particular area other than their home. Not thought through sorry. I can't think of an easy way to achieve it without changing something Proboard profiles do already have such a facility. If you look at mine, you will see a location set. Whether it is searchable is another question of course.
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Post by ali on Nov 8, 2017 16:16:05 GMT
\Mod hat off I know this debate has polarised the community but can we please just accept that there are differing opinions and that those are not necessarily wrong? I don't want to escalate things, but I don't really see how else to word this. Yes, of course, opinions are not always necessarily wrong. However in this case those opinions have, with the benefit of hindsight, actually been proven to be wrong. This is important for investors to be aware of if the same people come back on in three months time and express identical opinions the next time the SM builds up. As somebody who likes the par only market at MT and voted for no change, can I point out that you are mistaken. One of the arguments for variable pricing is that a par only market tends to swing from feast to famine and finds it very difficult to be stable anywhere in between. What happened with the MT market? It went from feast to famine. If anything, I'd say those who argued for variable pricing were proved right. Of course, there are many arguments for a par only market (as there are many for variable pricing). They both have advantages and disadvantages. If you want to read all the arguments, there's a whole thread worth of posts for you to enjoy. I'm very happy with MT's market, just as I'm very happy with eg., Funding Secure's variable priced market. They both work well for me for different reasons.
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Post by ali on Nov 7, 2017 13:08:48 GMT
Current loan number is MTAI837. I know which makes these four new loans even more curious that these four have turned up in completed loans Yes, clearly an artefact of MT's processes. You will note that the end date on these four is today which is presumably why they have now turned up in completed loans. My best guess: MT were planning to roll the loans onto the new terms before they got into trouble and created these new loans for that purpose. As it happens, the loans did run into trouble and so it never happened. The important thing is that this does not appear to have anything to do with the current live (well, defaulted) loan.
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Post by ali on Nov 7, 2017 12:10:51 GMT
There are four loans in completed today for this loan using the old numbers MTAI576-9 but with an N after each one and the name includes new terms.
Only problem is when you click into them then the loan is not found, looks like something is happening though.
Current loan number is MTAI837.
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Post by ali on Nov 6, 2017 7:53:40 GMT
There's no immediate suggestion that anyone did get into your account, I think the point being made is that the (possible) continual banging on the door may have alerted Zopa to suspend the account to stop ANY logins (as you found out to your annoyance!) One would hope that a concerted, repeated attempt to log in with youremail@yourdomain.com and a series of different and wrong passwords would trip SOME kind of reaction! Possibly. They could have seen that there were a number of failed attempts from eg., Australia and suspended the account while they put in regional IP blocking, but I would have hoped they would have checked with me first that such a regional block was appropriate. Forcing me to change my password doesn't appear to achieve anything. Whatever level of randomness I used in my current password I am likely to continue to use in any replacement password. Telling me that my account was under attack and suggesting I made sure my password was completely random would potentially achieve something, but they didn't do that. Changing my username would achieve something, but since Zopa (like many organizations) use an email address as a username that's a little difficult for them (as it happens, I have an infinite number of email addresses, but they're not to know that).
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Post by ali on Nov 1, 2017 15:13:08 GMT
I just had a quick scan and looks really positive. Somebody above said there would be no more Broadoak. What's that about? Something I missed presumably. Last paragraph under "Ongoing Loan Management."
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Post by ali on Nov 1, 2017 12:31:10 GMT
I'd guess that someone did a password-guessing attack on your account. A pretty common technique is that they buy lists of people's email address and password pairs from an older hack (for example, linkedin's 2012 hack when 117 million emails/passwords were stolen), and try them all on various banking sites etc. If 1 in 1000 leads to a valid account, they are quids in. Who knows. I'm certain they didn't get into my account that way. I generate my secure passwords (and all accounts that involve money have secure passwords) using Linux's /dev/random, using as many characters as I am allowed and as wide a range of possible characters as is permitted. Passwords are never reused.
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Post by ali on Nov 1, 2017 8:34:19 GMT
It's dropped, overnight, by a whopping 8p. Has anybody else experienced this? Could it to do with a month end process or something? I think it's to do with Unbolted working on a 30 day month system. Mine actually went up (by 12p), but that's nothing like as much as it normally does.
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Post by ali on Oct 31, 2017 17:53:47 GMT
Pleased to say my account is now unsuspended and I'm back in (after a password reset). Still no real idea as to what happened, but I guess it doesn't matter too much. I'm running my account down anyway due to the uncompetitive rates.
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Post by ali on Oct 31, 2017 14:51:36 GMT
The reason sounds a little unbelievable to me. Please be careful giving out your data to sort this out. Thanks Ton ⓉⓞⓃ. They did ask me for my date of birth when they called me, but to their credit weren't too surprised when I refused to tell them (unlike Barclays, whose fraud team always get very offended when I refuse to). Zopa said they would email me and I could call their main switchboard and get transferred to the relevant person. None of which I had a problem with. I was rather expecting, however, that they would have something useful to tell me. Or even better, actually be able to unsuspend the account. As it was, there was no point in calling me (or in me calling them). If they don't have it sorted in the morning, then as GSV3MIaC says, a formal complaint may well be the next step.
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Post by ali on Oct 31, 2017 12:18:06 GMT
I've now had a call from Zopa. After going through all the rigmarole of calling them back via their published number since they say they have to run a security check on me before they can talk to me, I discover that the reason they have suspended my account is to test how well their security systems work. I told them "badly." They hope to have the account unsuspended by the end of today.
As I said, "muppets."
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