Hackers have gained access to the database of the Chinese internet forum Tianya. They have the data from 40 million users are published, including passwords, which for a large part is not stored encrypted.
The well-known Chinese forum, users are informed and an apology offered. The data from 40 million users are now on the street, reports China.org. In total, the forum has 60 million users.
The published data also include passwords, of which a large part was not encrypted: only the passwords of users that register after november 2009 have registered, were encrypted.
Last week was a large number of hacks on Chinese websites of an offence, where the data of 50 million users were stolen, reports the Shanghai Daily. Below it was the large Chinese ontwikkelaarscommunity CSDN, which is the data of six million accounts were stolen and published. The cause of the megahacks is unknown.