[Madison]

This information is accurate to the best of my knowledge.

The PMs are sent by a bot; a computer program designed to use the vBulletin system's private messaging functions to send spam. They index the member list and automagically generate PMs to each user.

The site was not hacked. What happened, while annoying and inappropriate, used a simple, straightforward method for sending spam.

Do not open PMs that are at all suspicious and, particularly, do not follow any links contained within them. I'm sure word's reached Brandon by now. If trouble starts up again, we can handle things on a user by user basis and temporarily suspend accounts as necessary.

Thanks for generating a list of the accounts that were involved.