Firefox Community Site Hacked

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 15, 2005 @07:53AM from the series-of-unfortunate-events dept.

Ryan Paul writes "The Mozilla Foundation reveals that remote attackers infiltrated the SpreadFirefox server by exploiting a site vulnerability. While it appears as though no personal information was accessed, e-mails were sent to inform all registered SpreadFirefox users of the breach. Ars Technica has the complete story." From the Ars article: "Preliminary analysis indicates that the exploit was limited to SpreadFirefox exclusively, meaning that other Mozilla Foundation web sites were not attacked or compromised. The vulnerability, which was exploited by 'unknown remote attackers,' could potentially have enabled the forces of computing darkness to obtain the username and password of every registered SpreadFirefox user, as well as any other optional information that users may have provided, including: real name, web site URL, e-mail address, IM screename, and home address."

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Firefox is good... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-15 07:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

but what about this:

Snape kills Dumbledore
1. Re:Firefox is good... by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-15 07:56 · Score: -1, Offtopic
  
  And ya know what? I just got my amazon order in a day early.
  
  I think that your Snape theory has 'holes' in it.
Fr1st p0st by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-15 07:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Fr1st p0st
first by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-15 07:54 · Score: -1, Offtopic

first post!!!
Re:Please remember to patch! by Anonymous Coward · 2005-07-15 08:02 · Score: -1, Offtopic

The patch is available here for those that need it.