Monday, February 2, 2009

phpBB hacked

Well, this wasn't expected.

Apparently, someone was able to hack into phpBB.com, hack into the admin account, and gain access to over 300,000 passwords and usernames, including those from the support forum.

This may not seem 'horrible', but if you think about it, how many people use the same user name and/or password on every site, blog, forum, email, and other service on the internet? Many, not all, but many. This means that everyone, including RobertCity.com staff, are at major risk right now.

The following plans have been temp. canceled until further notice, to be safe:

RobertCity.com's website finished
Webmaster's Resource
The new, yes that's right, phpBB support forum switch
Any websites that are custom made under the robertcity.com domain.

We are very sorry, but we want to make sure that everyone is safe, account wise. This means changing passwords on every possible site that we are affiliated with. Yes, over 50-100 sites.

We will update this blog when things are cleared, or an update is present.