The servers of the popular forum software phpBB shall be last weekend cracked. That made the development team of the software known. It is not yet clear what the attackers are exactly of war.
Writes that the phpBB team on his website. “We have immediately our network taken offline for investigation, while the attack was still continuing”, so there. For the moment it is not known who is behind the attack and what the motive is.
The team recommends that everyone who has registered on the site from phpBB to take measures. Who, for example, the password www.phpbb.com or area51.phpbb.com on other sites, will do well to that change. The cause of the hack is not known, but he found, according to the development team emphatically not the forum software itself, which means that installations on other servers are not vulnerable.
The phpBB team says the next time with more details to come. “We will have our systems from the ground up, and will the integrity of all data check before we put it online. This process probably takes a few days.”
PhpBB is popular forum software, that community’s worldwide. For a long time had the software to contend with a bad image in the area of safety. That was due to malware, which causes many websites with the software were gedefaced. Nowadays, the software would be safer, claim the developers. The latest version, 3.1.2, dates from the previous month.