Attention all Tech Forums members,
Yesterday (December 25, 2009) we where the victim of a minor security breach performed by a as yet unknown attacker who inserted a (maybe malicious) iframe into our site. The attacker notified us by email, saying something about access to the database and at this moment in time we are performing a investigation into how this happened and to what extent data was compromised. We are urging all Tech Forums members to change their passwords, to be on the safe side.
The current consensus of the investigation is that their has been no malicious activity performed with the data and that their was no exploitation to your individual computers/Tech Forums account but within the next few days we will post the results of our investigation.
To our knowledge as of now, the security breach has been corrected and Tech Forums should be as it were before the breach. We have taken precautions and blocked some IP addresses, etc.
Please post any questions or comments in this thread, and try not to contact the forums Admins, Management, Super mods or moderators individually about this subject as we are currently engaged in the investigation and can not reply to all received PM's.
Thanks
We hope everyone had a good Christmas and has a safe and Happy New Years!
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Yesterday (December 25, 2009) we where the victim of a minor security breach performed by a as yet unknown attacker who inserted a (maybe malicious) iframe into our site. The attacker notified us by email, saying something about access to the database and at this moment in time we are performing a investigation into how this happened and to what extent data was compromised. We are urging all Tech Forums members to change their passwords, to be on the safe side.
The current consensus of the investigation is that their has been no malicious activity performed with the data and that their was no exploitation to your individual computers/Tech Forums account but within the next few days we will post the results of our investigation.
To our knowledge as of now, the security breach has been corrected and Tech Forums should be as it were before the breach. We have taken precautions and blocked some IP addresses, etc.
Please post any questions or comments in this thread, and try not to contact the forums Admins, Management, Super mods or moderators individually about this subject as we are currently engaged in the investigation and can not reply to all received PM's.
Thanks
We hope everyone had a good Christmas and has a safe and Happy New Years!
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