West Bend

Member Message

Dear Freecycle Moderator,

On August 30th we became aware of a data breach on Freecycle.org. As a result, we are advising all members to change their passwords as soon as possible. The way we are doing this is via a notification at the top of www.freecycle.org with a link to a page with further info *and* we'd like to ask for your help as a local group moderator as well; we'd ask that you please also email your local members via the ModTools function for sending a notification to members. This is the quickest way to reach all local members with this info. Please note: email sending will be throttled so don’t expect members to get the email immediately; it may take a day or two to be received. We very much appreciate your help in this regard.

 

In order to send this notice to local members, do the following:

a) Log in to Freecycle.org;

b) Go to your ModTools page for your local group;

c) Click on "Town Settings";

d) Click on the subheading for "Town Notices";

e) Click on "Add new notice";

f) Give it a file name like "Data Breach";

g) Give it a description name like "Breach of member data";

h) Access level: "Public";

i) Paste in the below text (under the ********);

j) Click on "Save Changes and Send Bulk Email Notice."

 

We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your assistance in this regard. Ugh. As an aside, this email is also a good chance to clean up the local memberships: folks who are no longer using it will unsubscribe, etc. 

 

Sincerely,

 

Deron

-- Deron Beal Executive Director The Freecycle Network www.freecycle.org