I’ve received an email regarding a survey, with the title “TrueNAS Advisory Council invite”.
This survey requires a login, and to me it screams some kind of weird phishing attempt. The problem, in case that it is phishing, is that the email they’ve sent this to is only used for the TrueNAS newsletter as far as I remember, which would mean a data leak of some kind.
Is this a real email sent from iXSystems, or has there been a data leak of some kind?
I got the same email, but haven’t clicked the link.
The link goes to truenas dot pullpath dot works - if this is real it’s not well handled. I’m not convinced it’s a phish because there’s no obvious thing it could be phishing for … but it otherwise has the hallmarks of a phish.
They’re coming for your gigabytes! Have you checked your gigabytes recently? Count them. Make sure they’re all still there.
Attacking user accounts where password reuse happens. Could be an easy way to collect emails and passwords relating to each other.
I’m also not an enterprise customer, I don’t know if there’s any kind of login for those customers.
I’ve also received such email, and too to an inbox not usually used for anything related to business communication.
I can’t see anything obviously malicious, but somehow has that smelly smell that smells smelly…
It’s kind of telling, I think, that nobody from iX has chimed in here.
I have received those emails time ago, also done surveys and a meeting afterwards. Nothing fancy to me!
Also, as far i remember, a registration was required, not properly a login
They have replied, on reddit of all places…
https://www.reddit.com/r/truenas/comments/1l7d23j/comment/mwvypl1/
I mean, why would they want to reply on their own forum? 
I didn’t get one of those invites, but if I did I would likely have viewed it as a some form of esoteric phishing attempt.
In defense of @kris, the question was raised in the very, very well hidden “General DIscussion” category so it was hard to find. 
Now, who will come out in defense of the forum layout and categories? (Not holding my breath…)
I think the only real issue is that, for some reason, the General Discussion category seems to be hidden by default.
More broadly, the pendulum may have swung too far back. The old forum was a complete mess, with individual forums/subforums apparently created by throwing darts blindfolded at a moving target. There were 94 forums there, ffs! And that only counts the ones that normal users can see; I’d expect mods and such had it even worse.
So, compared to that dumpster fire? This is a dream. But it’s probably a bit too flat.
If I received that email invite, I would have deleted it. My junk mail filter may have dumped it for me. Also, if this was real, @Kris or @HoneyBadger would likely have jumped in and said something.
I think that one of them has stepped in… on Reddit. On second thought, iXsystemsChris would be Chris rather than Kris.
Anyway, this is probably the third hand of TrueNAS (marketing) not knowing what the left hand (“come to the shiny new side of the Force, upgrade now!”) and the right hand (“read the release notes and don’t upgrade a production server if there are breaking changes”) are doing.
It is, and that’s me on Reddit making the clarification.
We average a few hundred topics and several thousand posts per day. You’ll have to excuse me if I can’t read them all.
Unsurprisingly, people go on vacations in the middle of the summer.
Looking at the previous data there were 1572 posts on June 9th when this thread was initially posted.
