http://www.zdnet.com/ubuntu-forums-hacked-1-82m-logins-email-addresses-stolen-7000018336/
By Zack Whittaker
Zero Day
ZDNet News
July 21, 2013
Ubuntu Forums suffered a massive data breach, the company behind the Linux
open-source based operating system said on Saturday.
In an announcement posted on its main forum page, Canonical confirmed
there had been a security breach and that the team is working to restore
normal operations.
The notice said "every user's local username, password and email address"
from their database was stolen. The company confirmed that though the
passwords are not stored in plain text, users who share passwords across
sites are encouraged to change them.
"Ubuntu One, Launchpad and other Ubuntu/Canonical services are not
affected by the breach," the open-source company stated.
An estimated 1.82 million users are subscribed to the forums, with more
than 1.96 million threads, according to the last crawl by the Internet
Archive in mid-June.
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