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PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 2:44am UTC)
Well, I was logged into Invision Power Boards seeking some help on their HUGE CSS (30k characters x_x). I stumbled into their general board. PHPBB.COM was hacked. Apparently the hacker made a blog:

http://hackedphpbb.blogspot.com/

The main page of phpbb.com states they were attacked. And a topic on their temp support forum (click here) states it as well.

I never thought I would see PHPBB.COM hacked o.O
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 3:50am UTC)
Wow, never thought this was happen. I guess that shows that there are always security risks out there. I hope no data lost or anything bad happens.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 2:42pm UTC)
 
Wow, never thought this was happen. I guess that shows that there are always security risks out there. I hope no data lost or anything bad happens.
400,000 emails stolen. =O. And they cracked about 30,000 passwords.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 3:51pm UTC)
Could this person be a Black hatter? or a White Hatter?

I hope some of you know what those 2 terms mean.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 4:56pm UTC)
 
Could this person be a Black hatter? or a White Hatter?

I hope some of you know what those 2 terms mean.
No i don't {Confused}

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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 9:45pm UTC)
"I did it because it was fun" sounds black hat, especially seeing as they released all the stolen information..

Just a guess. {Wink}

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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (2nd Feb 09 at 11:26pm UTC)
 
 
Wow, never thought this was happen. I guess that shows that there are always security risks out there. I hope no data lost or anything bad happens.
400,000 emails stolen. =O. And they cracked about 30,000 passwords.
Eh, that's not too good. {Lips Sealed}

 
Could this person be a Black hatter? or a White Hatter?

I hope some of you know what those 2 terms mean.
Based off of his blog, I think that he's strongly (and obviously) a black hat hacker.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (3rd Feb 09 at 3:35am UTC)
 
 
Could this person be a Black hatter? or a White Hatter?

I hope some of you know what those 2 terms mean.
No i don't {Confused}


Lets start with the White Hatter.

A white Hatter finds exploits in forums services, they hack it, but don't do any harm. They tell the Forum Provider about it. I'm assuming the Provider highers the white hatter to do it.

A black hatter is someone who hacks forum services, and exploit the service like that one guy did to PHPBB. They can sometimes if they want to, they can inject malicious coding into the service, like stealing emails, passwords, IP's, sending out any type of virus's, etc.

I think there was another type of a hatter, I'm not really sure though.

 
"I did it because it was fun" sounds black hat, especially seeing as they released all the stolen information..

Just a guess. {Wink}

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Yeah that was my thoughts too.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (3rd Feb 09 at 4:04am UTC)
 

I think there was another type of a hatter, I'm not really sure though.

Gray hatter? There are a lot of sub-categories of "hackers" actually. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_(computer_security)#Hacker_attitudes
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (3rd Feb 09 at 5:53am UTC)
Ahh I see.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (3rd Feb 09 at 5:11pm UTC)
 
 
 
Could this person be a Black hatter? or a White Hatter?

I hope some of you know what those 2 terms mean.
No i don't {Confused}


Lets start with the White Hatter.

A white Hatter finds exploits in forums services, they hack it, but don't do any harm. They tell the Forum Provider about it. I'm assuming the Provider highers the white hatter to do it.

A black hatter is someone who hacks forum services, and exploit the service like that one guy did to PHPBB. They can sometimes if they want to, they can inject malicious coding into the service, like stealing emails, passwords, IP's, sending out any type of virus's, etc.

I think there was another type of a hatter, I'm not really sure though.

Ah, thanks Darkmage .

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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (3rd Feb 09 at 10:36pm UTC)
Your welcome {Smile} The link Blanka posted tell more about them.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (5th Feb 09 at 5:08pm UTC)
It saddens me that people actually do this. Some people can ruin great things with such potential by a simple hacking and I think it is only going to get worse as the world becomes more dependent upon networking computers.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (5th Feb 09 at 11:56pm UTC)
Yeah.. {Unsure}

Most likely I'm sure vF is un-hackable, and I know PB is defiantly not hackable. But allot of these open source forums, are sure to be hacked more then the non open sourced forums.
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Re: PHPBB.COM Hacked. (6th Feb 09 at 12:02am UTC)
Darkmage: Nothing is unhackable. There were sites like the "Defense Department of US" that get hack. :\

Aki: I agree. Hacking is not something to be proud and especially something that is free and helpful to people like PHPbb. I do agree though that hacking will a lot more popular later on.

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