Practical Fishkeeping Magazine Forum Hacked!

[AK77]

Just in case you are registered on their site and missed the email or it got taken out by your spam filter, please be aware of the following:

Dear Practical Fishkeeping website user

Why are we contacting you?

You have received this message because you are a registered user of our website practicalfishkeeping.co.uk.

We have been made aware that hackers have breached our website security. This is a criminal offence, and information on our register about our readers (usernames, passwords, email addresses, postal addresses and in some cases telephone numbers) may have been viewed or taken.

What are we doing?

We have taken immediate action to preserve the privacy and security of the data held by us, and are doing all we can to investigate exactly what has happened and to ensure that it cannot happen again. We have notified the Police and the Information Commissioner.

Practicalfishkeeping.co.uk is currently offline until security has been restored. You will be notified as soon as Practicalfishkeeping.co.uk is live again, and we are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience, but the security of our users is of paramount importance to us.

What should you do?

It is possible that the hackers might seek to use the information they have to commit identity fraud. You should be extra vigilant about checking for unexpected activity on your credit cards or bank accounts, and follow Home Office advice when using the Internet:

 

[Betta5]

I havn't been on there for like a year but I got the message. So annoying.

 

[omega59]

wow that sucks.

 

[Harry1996]

that sucks. their website security isnt that good then is it

 

[furry catfish]

ah thats why the site is down....

 

[Hawkins]

Obviously PFK haven't done a good enough job to protect their users They should be more careful

As an IT student I find this quite interesting, and dare i say funny?

 

[Betta5]

Come on, its just a forum. A disabled english man broke into the US governments system... These systems arnt 100% scaure. Shizzle happens.

 

[Tolak]

http/countermeasures.trendmicro.eu/a-whole-new-meaning-to-phishing/

If it were just a forum being down it wouldn't be too much of a personal loss. The problem being, passwords to member accounts and e-mail addresses were taken. Many people, while it is a bad idea, use the same password to multiple accounts. This means their forum password could be their e-mail password. This is a big problem.

 

[furry catfish]

thank goodness I put those few numbers after my e mail password or I would be scr*wed

 

[Amberleaf]

Whoa! I *used* to use the same password everywhere, but.... then, yeahs. Not anymores.