[db-wg] Faked entries in the RIPE db

On Tue, May 31, 2016 at 10:21:31AM +0000, Dickinson, Ian wrote:

Dear Ian

> There appears to be abuse happening in the RIPE db - presumably to allow other online activity to be done with abuse indirection to an innocent bystander (e.g. my employer) - all over the last day or two...
> 
> The specific items I noticed are all inet6num maintained by BSKYB-BROADBAND44-MNT, along with BSKYB-BROADBAND44-MNT itself, and ORG-BBH4-RIPE and ACRO772-RIPE
> This was due to the fake objects referring to our real role/person objects.
> 
> It appears that there are many other faked entries under 2a07:7ec0::/29 - pretending to be Deutsche Telekom or Time Warner Cable for example.
> Either that LIR is a bad actor, or their maintainer credentials have been 0wned.
> 
> This needs to be killed off.

Have a look at https://www.ripe.net/report-form

All the best,
Piotr

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