[SOLVED] Database security?

[Kane250]

I manage a website of a campaign and this morning somehow, somebody was able to send me email that was addressed to websiteurl@proxy.dreamhost.com but was from their own personal email address. I fear that they somehow accessed everyone on my email database list and that this e-mail was sent to them as well, but I cannot be sure.

 

Has anyone else experienced a problem like this before? Any extra security measures I can take so nobody could gain access to my database? (if that is in fact what happened here).

 

Thanks.

[trq]

somebody was able to send me email that was addressed to websiteurl@proxy.dreamhost.com but was from their own personal email address.

 

I could send an email to that address from my email, doesn't mean Ive broken into any db server. maybe I'm missing something here?

[Kane250]

I'm asking because even though it was addressed to that email address, I received the email in my gmail account.

 

I assumed it was database related because my gmail address is listed inside the database I built for this website....clearer? I don't receive email at thataddress@proxy.dreamhost.com even though that was who it was addressed to.

[Kane250]

Figured it out. Apparently when someone looks up a website's registration information there is contact info listed. It just so happens the email address people see is not my personal one, but a weird @proxy whatever email. So it turns out that someone just found this and sent me the email only. It really looked like an email one would receive from a php script without custom headers though... That's why i freaked...oh well, lesson learned!