Why was I logged in as Sleep Envy..?

Why was I logged in as Sleep Envy..?

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Funk

Original Poster:

26,354 posts

211 months

Sunday 20th July 2008
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I logged out and in again and seem to be back to my usual self.. Any ideas?

David Godfrey

3,857 posts

226 months

Sunday 20th July 2008
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known issue discussed here linkysmile

tinman0

18,231 posts

242 months

Sunday 20th July 2008
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i just got logged in as some chap with a username beginning with ew...

Funk

Original Poster:

26,354 posts

211 months

Sunday 20th July 2008
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Interesting times.

RacingPete

8,913 posts

206 months

Monday 21st July 2008
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Watch out.. tecnical reply coming... smile

It looks like the etags passed by our new cacheing servers are causing a problem for some of the ISPs and they are trying to cache as much as possible (probably so they look like they are providing the quoted speeds they do). This is then causing them to cache some of the pages too agressively and showing back wrong information.

It isn't a security risk to your account, just that the information shown is for someone elses account. They can't see passwords or any other sensitive information. Also this is happening to a small amount of users too.

We are trying to sort out the page headers so that the ISPs read the site better, so bear with us while we work on it (It is a lengthy process as cacheing of pages can be days to to re-look or clear their cache and update with the new details)