Wine HQ Password Database Compromised

With his first accepted submission, tyler.russell writes with a report that the WineHQ database systems were compromised. Quoting the official announcement: "We are sorry to report that recently our login database for the Wine HQ Application Database was compromised. We know that the entire contents of the login database was stolen by hackers. The password was encrypted, but with enough effort and depending on the quality of your old password, it could be cracked. We have closed the hole in our system that allowed read access to our database tables. To prevent further damage we have reset your password to what is shown below. We strongly suggest that if you shared your AppDB password on any other sites that you change that password as soon as possible.". He adds: "A new username and password were included with this email."

Comments

Reminder to Manage Your Passwords

[Onymous Coward]

Use a password manager like LastPass or KeePass, or, as I do, keep an encrypted file of your sites+logins+passwords.

You really need to manage your passwords. Reusing the same pass in multiple places is just a problem waiting to happen.

should have used apache

[Gravis Zero]

those showoffs were running IIS on WINE.