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Source: Hack exposes e-mail addresses, password data for 2 million Ubuntu Forum users | Ars Technica
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Dan Goodin said:E-mail addresses, user names, and password data for every registered user of the Ubuntu Forums—estimated to be 1.82 million accounts—were exposed in a security breach hitting the company responsible for maintaining the freely available, open-source operating system. There's no sign the compromised data has been published online.
The Ubuntu Forums were closed Saturday evening, following the discovery that the site's homepage was defaced by someone who managed to gain privileged access to its underlying servers. To their credit, administrators with Canonical, the for-profit company that markets Ubuntu, quickly issued an advisory that warned users who used their forum password to safeguard other accounts to change the credentials immediately. The forums remained inaccessible at time of writing on Sunday afternoon.
So far, there's no indication the password hashes and other data exposed in the Ubuntu forums hack have been published online, but it wouldn't be surprising for that to change. The person responsible for the hack went to the trouble of defacing the forum homepage. To get maximum publicity, the individual may decide to air some or all of the data acquired. And with the Internet Archive recently estimating 1.82 million registered Ubuntu forum accounts, the potential for abuse is high.