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+--- Thread: SMF Support Forums Hacked (/showthread.php?tid=272)
SMF Support Forums Hacked - That Punk Guy - July 24th, 2013
http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=508232
Interesting bit there for owners of forums using SMF.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Acko - July 24th, 2013
Interesting, right after we converted to MyBB.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Darth-Apple - July 24th, 2013
Very interesting. I'm very glad we switched to MYBB then haha.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - simlink - July 24th, 2013
The hacking was not caused by security loophole with SMF, hackers gained access to one of the admin's passwords and went through that.
Note: thread moved to internet discussion from web design.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Darth-Apple - July 24th, 2013
Thanks for moving the thread.
That does make me feel a little better about SMF. Hopefully we don't have issues like that here at Makestation.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - simlink - July 24th, 2013
Change your password often would be my advice. And don't use the same one in multiple places. Each site I'm admin at I have a different password.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Darth-Apple - July 24th, 2013
I'm gonna need one of those password managers soon haha.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - simlink - July 24th, 2013
No kidding. Anything sensitive gets a unique password for me.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Acko - July 24th, 2013
Yeah, I almost turned this innocent thread into SMF-hate thread because of misinformation. My bad
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Darth-Apple - July 24th, 2013
Haha we already have enough of those for 000webhost and SMFnew.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - Acko - July 24th, 2013
On topic, I wonder how the hacker got access to the admin's password? Surely he couldn't simply have used the forgot password button. (Of course, this also could be related to the UbuntuForums incident).
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - wasi90lk - July 24th, 2013
I am currently using SMF board, I hope nothing will happen to my forum.
I may switch to MyBB.
RE: SMF Support Forums Hacked - simlink - July 26th, 2013
(July 24th, 2013 at 6:42 PM)t3haco Wrote: On topic, I wonder how the hacker got access to the admin's password? Surely he couldn't simply have used the forgot password button. (Of course, this also could be related to the UbuntuForums incident).
I vaguely remembering reading that it was related.