Ubuntu forums hacked; 1.82M logins, email addresses stolen

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http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-forums-hacked-1-82m-logins-email-addresses-stolen-7000018336/

By Zack Whittaker
Zero Day
ZDNet News
July 21, 2013

Ubuntu Forums suffered a massive data breach, the company behind the Linux 
open-source based operating system said on Saturday.

In an announcement posted on its main forum page, Canonical confirmed 
there had been a security breach and that the team is working to restore 
normal operations.

The notice said "every user's local username, password and email address" 
from their database was stolen. The company confirmed that though the 
passwords are not stored in plain text, users who share passwords across 
sites are encouraged to change them.

"Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical services are not 
affected by the breach," the open-source company stated.

An estimated 1.82 million users are subscribed to the forums, with more 
than 1.96 million threads, according to the last crawl by the Internet 
Archive in mid-June.

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