[Discuss] Fwd: Important information from Ubuntuforums.org

Bill Horne bill at horne.net
Tue Jul 23 21:33:03 EDT 2013


I got the following notice:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Important information from Ubuntuforums.org
Date: 	Mon, 22 Jul 2013 06:56:50 +0000
From: 	Ubuntu forums <forums at ubuntu.com>
Reply-To: 	forums at ubuntu.com
To: 	(My Address)



Hello,

You are receiving this message because you have an account registered with this address on ubuntuforums.org.

The Ubuntu forums software was compromised by an external attacker. As a result, the attacker has gained access to read your username,
email address and an encrypted copy of your password from the forum database.

If you have used this password and email address to authenticate at any other website,
you are urged to reset the password on those accounts immediately as the attacker
may be able to use the compromised personal information to access these other
accounts. It is important to have a distinct password for different accounts.

The ubuntuforums.org website is currently offline and we are working to restore
this service. Please take the time to change your ubuntuforums.org account password
when service is restored.

We apologize for any inconvenience to the Ubuntu community, thank you for your understanding.

The Canonical Sysadmins.





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