vBulletin resets passwords after a targeted attack

  • 30 March 2016
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March 30, 2016  By Pierluigi Paganini
 
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vBulletin has suffered a severe attack last week that breached one of the Germany servers, in response it informed users that all passwords had been reset.

 
vBulletin has suffered a severe attack last week, in response it informed users that all passwords had been reset. According to the vBulletin developer Paul Marsden one of the Germany servers was breached by an unauthorized party.
 
“Due to the discovery yesterday of unauthorized access to of one of the VBG servers it is possible the hacker may have gained access to other vb systems as well. Therefore we have again taken the precaution of resetting all user password hashes. To be able to login to the site you will need to use the lost password functionality. 
http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/login.php?do=lostpw

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.” said Marsden.
 
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Hi Jasper

Thank you for presenting that information.
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Interesting article, Jasper, another day...another breach...they are bcoming so regular that one could almost run a calendar of breaches site...just for informational purposes. That is the very sorry state of the world we live in...and that is a minor problem when compared to recent events. :(

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