That’s a great Gmail tip, I din’t know that

Thanks everyone – some great replies. I think I’ll have to park this incident as ‘un-explained’. The email and password I got in the spam email was definitely the one I used for SSC and nowhere else.

The system I use is based on being able to use any alias before the @ symbol so for SSC I register with davessc@<my domain>. This has helped me track previous suspicious activity with other companies and then block future spam to the unique address.

The ‘old password/old hack’ theory chimes as well – the last order I placed with SSC was 2015.

Hey, that’s a bit more technical than my abilities… but yep, I’ve just looked at the 2 recent emails to the SSC registered email address and they both have the same bitcoin wallet for payment.

As I’d commented above, I’m not concerned about the claims in the spam email, aside from the factors mentioned above the spam email states they have hacked the email account – there isn’t even an email account for the email address and password they’re using.

I did email SSC when I first started getting the spam emails (but no password) and they stated they hadn’t been compromised and the passwords are handled by the following means:

“salt and hash their password and store the resulting data” – is this secure?

Yep, the password is in plain text in the email and as Footflaps suggests it’s send me a payment on Bitcoin and I won’t send the webcam videos to all your contacts – I don’t have a webcam, I don’t keep my contacts on the PC and the password is one that I’ve used on the SSC site – so no worries there

<span>just had look on hibp and the email address I used comes up and it seems it appears on a list as part of something called the ‘Onliner spambot’ incident. </span>

The incident appears to be the discovery of a huge list of email addresses and some associated passwords.

Is it possible that someone has hacked the SSC site and the resultant data has been collected and added to the list above

Tom, interesting to hear you’ve experienced this as well, has it just started recently?

Yep, slightly conscious of that hence the question. I’m running good av and anti-malware protection. In terms of a key logger, the last order I placed was in Apr 2015 so if that’s the source of a breach they have sat on the data for 3 1/2 years.

Thanks for all the replies so far, I’ll continue to monitor this.

True, so out of curiosity I’ve just measured them with a digital vernier…

width = 30.04mm now that’s not bad for a stated 30mm tyre

Also height above the rim would be important for clearance – that’s coming out at 31.6mm

I’m afraid my searches didn’t give the answer (hopefully future searches from others will pick up this post). One post said 35’s were fine, others said 28 was the max – all a bit contradictory.

And I guess no one posts actual tyre width as it differs depending on the rim it sits on…

Yep, good point, thanks

Reckon I’ll heli tape it before taking it out :-)

@Rickmeister – neat trick, thanks for the post, I’ll be doing that as well as getting a new mount (Garmin ones seems prone to failure) and sorting a strong tether out :-)

Huge, huge thanks to Steve (and his Mum and Dad – who found the Garmin). I really appreciate you posting this on STW and also thanks to my friends for spotting the post.

Very relived to have got it back !!

Hi Steve, I’m the chap ‘Garage Bikes’ has just messaged – I lost my Garmin 810 on Saturday near Oxenhope. Any chance you could call/message me I can talk in more detail about where I think I lost it and describe it, it’s also got quite a distinctive mount on the back.

Hope it’s mine that you have – I’ve been sick all weekend thinking about the prospect of having to replace it.

Thanks very much
Dave
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Billy – you could have a look at a pair of M161s that I have for sale (link below) – pretty much as new, I’ve only used them on a road bike before I switched to proper roadie spds.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fs-shimano-m161w-mtb-shoes-never-worn-off-road-like-new-size-43

Cheers
Davey

Thanks Chaps – some good tips, I’ll look them up.

Cheers
Davey