Mumsnet, the popular, parenting website has been hacked: http://www.mumsnet.com/Talk/site_st...think-you-should-do-PLEASE-READ-PART-TWO?pg=1
If you know anyone who uses the site, or you do yourself, you will have to set a new password for your account. However, if you use the same username/email address and password combo on any other sites, you should change those ASAP too.
The hacker has done lots of bits and pieces including, now, posting 3000 user passwords online: http://pastebin.com/TABvdBen
Which brings me to NSC...
From humble beginnings, Mumsnet is a bit of a monster now, full-time staff and a lot of resources, yet they have still come unstuck if a quite horrible way. NSC doesn't have full-time staff nor much in the way of resources.
I use what I've always considered to be the best messageboard software for NSC, vBulletin, which is why it costs money and is not free. It has a full-time team working on it. When updates or patches are released, I apply them as soon as is practical. Your passwords are stored in encrypted fashion. I can't see them, even if I wanted to, nor can anyone else.
I use a host, Rackspace, which has significant resources and investment in security. This costs more than a lot of other hosts.
Despite this, it would be foolish for me, or anyone, to think NSC could not be hacked at some point in the future. As such, my one word of advice for you, when using NSC, is do not use the same password that you use for any other site where you have registered the same username and/or email address. We are told we should do this anyway, but few people do because having a different password for every site, unless you use a password safe, is a pain in the arse.
If you know anyone who uses the site, or you do yourself, you will have to set a new password for your account. However, if you use the same username/email address and password combo on any other sites, you should change those ASAP too.
The hacker has done lots of bits and pieces including, now, posting 3000 user passwords online: http://pastebin.com/TABvdBen
Which brings me to NSC...
From humble beginnings, Mumsnet is a bit of a monster now, full-time staff and a lot of resources, yet they have still come unstuck if a quite horrible way. NSC doesn't have full-time staff nor much in the way of resources.
I use what I've always considered to be the best messageboard software for NSC, vBulletin, which is why it costs money and is not free. It has a full-time team working on it. When updates or patches are released, I apply them as soon as is practical. Your passwords are stored in encrypted fashion. I can't see them, even if I wanted to, nor can anyone else.
I use a host, Rackspace, which has significant resources and investment in security. This costs more than a lot of other hosts.
Despite this, it would be foolish for me, or anyone, to think NSC could not be hacked at some point in the future. As such, my one word of advice for you, when using NSC, is do not use the same password that you use for any other site where you have registered the same username and/or email address. We are told we should do this anyway, but few people do because having a different password for every site, unless you use a password safe, is a pain in the arse.
