SMF Support Forums Hacked

That Punk Guy · July 24th, 2013 at 5:28 PM

http://www.simplemachines.org/community/...pic=508232

Interesting bit there for owners of forums using SMF. Tongue

**Acko** · July 24th, 2013 at 5:31 PM

Interesting, right after we converted to MyBB.

**Darth-Apple** · July 24th, 2013 at 5:36 PM

Very interesting. I'm very glad we switched to MYBB then haha.

**simlink** · (This post was last modified: July 24th, 2013 at 6:16 PM by simlink.)

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.

**Darth-Apple** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:18 PM

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. Tongue

**simlink** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:20 PM

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. Tongue

**Darth-Apple** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:23 PM

I'm gonna need one of those password managers soon haha.

**simlink** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:27 PM

No kidding. Anything sensitive gets a unique password for me.

**Acko** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:36 PM

Yeah, I almost turned this innocent thread into SMF-hate thread because of misinformation. My bad Tongue

**Darth-Apple** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:37 PM

Haha we already have enough of those for 000webhost and SMFnew. Tongue

**Acko** · July 24th, 2013 at 6:42 PM

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).

wasi90lk · July 24th, 2013 at 8:06 PM

I am currently using SMF board, I hope nothing will happen to my forum.

I may switch to MyBB.

**simlink** · July 26th, 2013 at 5:23 PM

(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.

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