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Mo:
Just another day in the world of computer insecurity...

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/news/2011/06/bioware-hacked-data-taken-from-decades-old-neverwinter-forum.ars

Soul Sojourner:
Fucked up.

420:
Yeah, I wasn't going to mention it because I didn't want to bring their attention here.

They have hacked Sony, Bethesda, the CIA, and a bunch of others in the past month. Even opened a "hotline" that you can call to request attacks.

Interestingly, the hit on the CIA came at the same time as the hit on the NWN forums.

However, only 18,000 NWN accounts were compromised. Considering the total number of accounts (BioWare announced 1 million accounts a few years back), that is a relatively small number. BioWare sent out emails to the people who's account information was stolen and advised them to change their password.

-420

Mercy:
Well, the people who hacked Sony, Nintendo, etc didn't claim the Bioware one. But that doesn't mean much. Shit is getting retarded.

Mo:
I don't think that LolzSec is responsible for the NWN forums, seems to low profile for them.  The point is that corporate and online security has reached a point so ridiculously low that everyone from their LOL cat can toss a SQL Injection at an unpatched server and steal info.

I bet the NWN forums is running on Apache and MySQL servers that haven't seen a security patch in 3 years.  In fact, there are bots just like Google Bots that run wild around the web looking for unpatched websites to compromise....

hmmm...is LM one of those sites? hehe it's being hosted on GoDaddy now but I'm planning on moving it to Canada some time soon cause I hate GoDaddy just haven't had the time

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