Android Forums Hacked: 1 Million User Credentials Stolen

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Android Forums Hacked: 1 Million User Credentials Stolen

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday July 12, 2012 @10:45AM from the protect-ya-neck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Phandroid's AndroidForums.com has been hacked. The database that powers the site was compromised and more than one million user account details were stolen. If you use the forum, make sure to change your password ASAP. From the article: 'Phandroid has revealed that its Android Forums website was hacked this week using a known exploit. The data that was accessed includes usernames, e-mail addresses, hashed passwords, registration IP addresses, and other less-critical forum-related information. At the time of writing, the forum listed 1,034,235 members.'"

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lol linux by Anonymous Coward · 2012-07-12 10:46 · Score: 4, Funny

Was it run on... Linux? BWAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Linux = FAIL.
Windows or OS X are the only secure solutions.
1. Re:lol linux by multiben · 2012-07-12 11:19 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  You're right. I'm sorry, now back to work everyone! These are serious times. Linux is the best operating system that has every existed and nothing will ever be better than it. It is perfect and nobody should ever laugh at it. You know why? Because it's not funny! That's why. In fact, nothing is funny. Somebody told me a joke once back in 1972 and frankly I just didn't see the point. It distracted me from being serious.
Woo Hoo, big news! by Grayhand · 2012-07-12 10:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Androids forums had a million users!!!!! Take that Apple!
Forums by Archangel+Michael · 2012-07-12 11:10 · Score: 4, Insightful

Most websites are "NOT SECURE" enough, so pretending that they are is simply dangerous. Wanna know how secure that website is? The Login is not on a SSL connection. Nuff Said!

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This is news? by thetoadwarrior · 2012-07-12 11:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Some low budget Android site gets hacked and we feel the need to talk about it? It's a fucking PHP based site. I'm surprised not being hacked in between each restart to recover from memory leaks.
The known exploit by wbr1 · 2012-07-12 11:32 · Score: 3, Funny

androidforums.com runs on a cluster of old phones. A simple android root program injected into the php was all that was needed :P

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Original Source by izomiac · 2012-07-12 14:06 · Score: 4, Informative

Here is the original source, with more information and less sensationalism. They aren't sure if any user information was downloaded, but are treating this as a full breach. To their credit, they at least hashed the passwords, and chose to inform their userbase rather than sit on it until they figured out if any user data was actually stolen or not.
Does this mean.. by 0ld_d0g · 2012-07-12 20:34 · Score: 4, Funny

They open sourced the passwords? :-P
Re:And, To Fulfil the Irony.... by cerberusss · 2012-07-12 21:38 · Score: 5, Funny

It's the password that I only use for all my forum accounts, so I don't really care if it's hacked or not. Should I post stupid stuff, then it's just the silly Android Forums hacker.
HAHAHA DISREGARD THAT, I SUCK COCKS

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