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Ubuntu Forums Compromised

Postby Zancarius » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:36 am

Pretty nice of them to send out an alert to everyone:

Hello,

You are receiving this message because you have an account registered with this address on ubuntuforums.org.

The Ubuntu forums software was compromised by an external attacker. As a result, the attacker has gained access to read your username, email address and an encrypted copy of your password from the forum database.

If you have used this password and email address to authenticate at any other website, you are urged to reset the password on those accounts immediately as the attacker may be able to use the compromised personal information to access these other accounts. It is important to have a distinct password for different accounts.

The ubuntuforums.org website is currently offline and we are working to restore this service. Please take the time to change your ubuntuforums.org account password when service is restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience to the Ubuntu community, thank you for your understanding.

The Canonical Sysadmins.


Of course, I have no recollection what password I used or whether it was a generated one. Go figure.

As a side note, I'm pretty sure they are running vBulletin. Not terribly surprising, is it?
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