Ubuntuforums.org Hacked · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday July 20, 2013 @05:12PM from the another-one-falls dept.

satuon writes "The popular Ubuntu Forums site is now displaying a message saying there was a security breach. What is currently known: Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user's local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. The passwords are not stored in plain text. However, if you were using the same password as your Ubuntu Forums one on another service (such as email), you are strongly encouraged to change the password on the other service ASAP. Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical services are NOT affected by the breach."

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That's what you get for running Ubuntu by ilikenwf · 2013-07-20 17:20 · Score: 0, Troll

Especially on servers... Not only is all the crap installed by default annoying, but it probably leaves a lot of nice security holes too.

Using other distros not related to Ubuntu, but based on Debian or really anything else is always a better option.