Tapatalk has become the victim of a hack where the encrypted passwords are stolen from users of the supportfora. Also, there are passwords in plain text is obsolete. It is still unclear how much data exactly was stolen.
On the supportfora gives an admin of Tapatalk that hackers have invaded the servers. Under the database information that are stolen are the passwords that are used to on the supportfora to log in. The passwords that are used to on the Tapatalk application itself to log in would not have been stolen.
The stolen passwords with encryption, so they are not immediately usable. Still has Tapatalk an e-mail sent to its users with the ask for a new password. Incidentally, at the time of the hack are also some settings changed, so the login details of users unencrypted in the hands of the hackers: according to antutu benchmark, the hackers are already on 9 december entered his login attempts from that date intercepted. How many passwords are there in total in hands of the hackers have come up is not clear.
Tapatalk is a software which site builders can use their forum software to make it suitable for use on mobile phones. This is a special api developed. Users can use the application multiple forums at the same time.
