avast! site hacked

**rlg118** · May 28th, 2014, 03:03 AM

Found in my Inbox:

The AVAST forum is currently offline and will remain so for a brief period. It was hacked over this past weekend and user nicknames, user names, email addresses, and hashed (one-way encrypted) passwords were compromised. Even though the passwords were hashed, it could be possible for a sophisticated thief to derive many of the passwords. If you use the same password and user names to log into any other sites, please change those passwords immediately. (Emphasis mine.) Once our forum is back online, all users will be required to set new passwords as the compromised passwords will no longer work.

This issue only affects our community-support forum. No payment, license, or financial systems or other data were compromised.

We are now rebuilding the forum and moving it to a different software platform. When it returns, it will be faster and more secure. This forum for many years has been hosted on a third-party software platform and how the attacker breached the forum is not yet known. However, we do believe that the attack just occurred and we detected it essentially immediately.

We realize that it is serious to have these usernames stolen and regret the concern and inconvenience it causes you. However, this is an isolated third-party system and your sensitive data remains secure.

All the best,

Ondrej Vlcek
COO AVAST Software

**exfarmer** · May 28th, 2014, 08:10 AM

http://vintage-erotica-forum.com/t26...um-hacked.html

May 28th, 2014, 03:03 AM	#1
rlg118 Veteran Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Land o' Lake-Effect Posts: 5,349 Thanks: 5,911 Thanked 113,524 Times in 5,361 Posts	avast! site hacked Found in my Inbox: The AVAST forum is currently offline and will remain so for a brief period. It was hacked over this past weekend and user nicknames, user names, email addresses, and hashed (one-way encrypted) passwords were compromised. Even though the passwords were hashed, it could be possible for a sophisticated thief to derive many of the passwords. If you use the same password and user names to log into any other sites, please change those passwords immediately. (Emphasis mine.) Once our forum is back online, all users will be required to set new passwords as the compromised passwords will no longer work. This issue only affects our community-support forum. No payment, license, or financial systems or other data were compromised. We are now rebuilding the forum and moving it to a different software platform. When it returns, it will be faster and more secure. This forum for many years has been hosted on a third-party software platform and how the attacker breached the forum is not yet known. However, we do believe that the attack just occurred and we detected it essentially immediately. We realize that it is serious to have these usernames stolen and regret the concern and inconvenience it causes you. However, this is an isolated third-party system and your sensitive data remains secure. All the best, Ondrej Vlcek COO AVAST Software __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.

May 28th, 2014, 08:10 AM	#2
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