OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently

guest · Jan 3, 2019

OSNews Suffered 'Likely' Data Breach, Contemplated Going Offline Permanently
*What happened here?*
January 2, 2019
https://www.osnews.com/story/128924/what-happened-here/

It certainly seems like we’ve had a breach. Our best guess is that someone was able to exploit a vulnerability in old, unmaintained code in the site’s content management system, and made off with at least some user data, which may be as little as a few user records or, at worst, our entire database.
Your email addresses were in there, and the encryption on the passwords wasn’t up to modern standards (unsalted SHA1).

[...] we don’t store much beyond email addresses and passwords, but nonetheless, we’ve very sorry that we weren’t more diligent over the years with keeping in lockstep with best practices with respect to site security.
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