Hack Notice

Hack Notice: Linux Forums

Linux Forums

Source
https://www.linuxuprising.com/2018/06/linuxforumsorg-hack-exposes-276000-user.html
Description
The LinuxForums.org data plug is a event of the forums using an old version of vBulletin (version 4.2.2, released back in october 2013), a proprietary Internet forum software. Along with the 276k unique email addresses, usernames, IP addresses and salted MD5 password hashes were also leaked. Using salted MD5 password hashes is a bad idea because... well, MD5 is very fast, so an assailant canful try billions of password combinations per second. The HackNotice security research team discovered a data leak file associated with this domain. According to the hacker, this domain was allegedly hacked. If there are no other sources attached to this hack notice, then we don't have an official disclosure of a data incident, so this plug is only implied.

About HackNotice and Linux Forums

HackNotice is a service that notices trends and patterns in publically available data so as to identify possible data breaches, leaks, hacks, and other data incidents on behalf of our clients. HackNotice monitors data streams related to breaches, leaks, and hacks and Linux Forums was reported by one of those streams. HackNotice may also have the breach date, hack date, the hacker responsible, the hacked industry, the hacked location, and any other parts of the hack, breach, or leak that HackNotice can report on for the consumers of our product.

If you are a user of Linux Forums their products, services, websites, or applications and you were a client of HackNotice, monitoring for Linux Forums you may have been alerted to this report about Linux Forums . HackNotice is a service that provides data, information, and monitoring that helps our clients recover from and remediate data breaches, hacks, and leaks of their personal information. HackNotice provides a service that helps our clients know what to do about a hack, breach, or leak of their information.

If Linux Forums had a transgress of consumer data or a data leak, then there may be additional actions that our clients should take to protect their digital identity. data breaches, hacks, and leaks often lead to and cause identity theft, account have overs, ransomware, spyware, extortion, and malware. account takeovers are often caused by credential reuse, password reuse, easily guessed passwords, and are facilitated by the sharing of billions of credentials and other customer information through data leaks, as the direct result of data breaches and hacks.

HackNotice monitors trends in publically available data that indicates tens of thousands of data breaches each year, along with billions of records from data leaks each year. On behalf of our clients, HackNotice works to monitor for hacks that track to lower node surety and digital identities that experience been exposed and should be considered vulnerable to attack. HackNotice works with clients to distinguish the extent that digital identities have been exposed and provides remediation suggestions for how to handle each type of exposure.

HackNotice monitors the hacker community, which is a network of individuals that share data breaches, hacks, leaks, malware, spyware, ransomware, and many other tools that are often used for financial fraud, account submit overs, and further breaches and hacks. HackNotice monitors the hacker community specifically for breaches, hacks, and data leaks that hurt consumers. HackNotice applies industry specific knowledge and advanced security practices to monitor for trends that indicate breaches, hacks, and exposed digital identities.

HackNotice also enables clients to apportion hack notices with their friend, family, and collogues to aid increase cognizance around alleged hacks, breaches, or data leaks. HackNotice works to provide clients with sharable reports to aid increase the security of our clients personal network. The security of the people that our clients interact with directly impacts the level of security of our clients. Increased photograph to accounts that make been taken over by hackers leads to further account take overs through phishing, malware, and other attach techniques.

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