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Post by Geoff on May 27, 2014 9:20:48 GMT
Had this email today it Appears Avast has been hacked.
Dear Geoff
The AVAST forum is currently offline and will remain so for a brief period. It was hacked over this past weekend and user nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed (one-way encrypted) passwords were compromised. Even though the passwords were hashed, it could be possible for a sophisticated thief to derive many of the passwords. If you use the same password and user names to log into any other sites, please change those passwords immediately. Once our forum is back online, all users will be required to set new passwords as the compromised passwords will no longer work.
This issue only affects our community-support forum. No payment, license, or financial systems or other data were compromised.
We are now rebuilding the forum and moving it to a different software platform. When it returns, it will be faster and more secure. This forum for many years has been hosted on a third-party software platform and how the attacker breached the forum is not yet known. However, we do believe that the attack just occurred and we detected it essentially immediately.
We realize that it is serious to have these usernames stolen and regret the concern and inconvenience it causes you. However, this is an isolated third-party system and your sensitive data remains secure.
All the best,
Ondrej Vlcek
COO AVAST Software
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Post by jal on May 27, 2014 10:32:46 GMT
Hi Geoff
As I don't use the Avast Forum would I be correct in thinking it doesn't effect me, by only using the Avast AntiVirus
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Post by Geoff on May 27, 2014 10:36:24 GMT
It's just the forum John
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Post by jal on May 27, 2014 12:58:14 GMT
Cheers Geoff
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Post by nob on May 27, 2014 16:35:27 GMT
So has ebay ive been told to change my password.
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Post by arch on May 27, 2014 16:56:33 GMT
So has ebay ive been told to change my password. Apparently ebay have known about this hi-jack for a couple of months now and are only just advising folk to change their passwords. Ebay aint encrypted which accounts for all personal data being snatched by said hi-jackers  |
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Post by jal on May 27, 2014 17:58:07 GMT
Hi Arch
I think PayPal has escaped any hi-jacking
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Post by nob on May 27, 2014 21:23:18 GMT
Paypal wasn't mentioned but the business part of eBay was.
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Post by jal on May 27, 2014 22:25:10 GMT
I thought that was about what it said
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Illegitimi non carborundum
