[mdlug] Ubuntu Forums hacked

Michael Corral micorral at comcast.net
Sun Jul 21 15:21:10 EDT 2013


<http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/07/ubuntu-forum-hacked-users-advised-to-change-passwords>

Their forums use vBulletin, which uses MD5 to encrypt the passwords,
so it might be easy to decrypt the 1.8 million stolen passwords.

A lot of distro forums use vBulletin, so I hope this encourages a
migration to better forum software, like Discourse.

Michael


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