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Dave, were we affected?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 7:03 am
by gsabc
From a news story:
"Recently a niche programming-oriented website called phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen."
Full story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
Re: Dave, were we affected?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:55 am
by ulysses5019
gsabc wrote:From a news story:
"Recently a niche programming-oriented website called phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen."
Full story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
Did bob#s have something to do with this?
Re: Dave, were we affected?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 8:56 am
by peacock2121
ulysses5019 wrote:gsabc wrote:From a news story:
"Recently a niche programming-oriented website called phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen."
Full story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
Did bob#s have something to do with this?
That was funny.
Re: Dave, were we affected?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 11:58 am
by tubadave
gsabc wrote:From a news story:
"Recently a niche programming-oriented website called phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen."
Full story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
That will have no effect on the Bored whatsoever, or anyone who posts on it, unless you ever happened to create an account at phpbb.com.
I think I might have, but I can't remember for sure.
I guess it's time for me to start changing some passwords, just in case.
Re: Dave, were we affected?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:15 pm
by gsabc
tubadave wrote:gsabc wrote:From a news story:
"Recently a niche programming-oriented website called phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen."
Full story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
That will have no effect on the Bored whatsoever, or anyone who posts on it, unless you ever happened to create an account at phpbb.com.
I think I might have, but I can't remember for sure.
I guess it's time for me to start changing some passwords, just in case.
Ah, I see, the effect was on the users of the main phpbb.com system itself, and not the folks who only log into a board that's set up on it. (I
think I said that the way I meant it.) Thanks for the clarification, Dave. I hope it doesn't affect you too badly, or at all.
Re: Dave, were we affected?
Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 12:57 pm
by tubadave
gsabc wrote:tubadave wrote:gsabc wrote:From a news story:
"Recently a niche programming-oriented website called phpbb.com had its user database hacked into and the passwords for 20,000 members stolen."
Full story:
http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/120554
That will have no effect on the Bored whatsoever, or anyone who posts on it, unless you ever happened to create an account at phpbb.com.
I think I might have, but I can't remember for sure.
I guess it's time for me to start changing some passwords, just in case.
Ah, I see, the effect was on the users of the main phpbb.com system itself, and not the folks who only log into a board that's set up on it. (I
think I said that the way I meant it.) Thanks for the clarification, Dave. I hope it doesn't affect you too badly, or at all.
Correct. Phpbb.com is the main site for the phpbb software, which is what this iteration of the Bored is using. Login information on that site was hacked, but it has no relation to login information here.
I've been searching for a bit, and I can't find any evidence that I had a login there, but I've been using the same set of passwords for too long as it is, so some changes are probably in order.