It appears several of you have never read this topic or got the mass email we sent regarding the incident. Allow me to reiterate:
Several banned users such as Tongara and x64—widely associated with spinoff community PoundStuff—have had found their IPs and useragents matched to several compromised accounts of users who never got our original mass email regarding a database hijack. Among users who have been found to have had their accounts hijacked include (but are not limited to) Yarharhar, Ashura2k, Blue Cheese, and Perfect Chaos Zero. Each of these users have had their passwords reset and an email sent their way regarding the security of their account.
THIS HAS NOT STOPPED BECOMING AN ISSUE. If you have not changed your password since we made this initial announcement, your account is still at risk. Several members in the oldbies group in particular have already had their accounts compromised; users with higher-level forum access are far more likely to be subject to abuse, so it's strongly advised that if you have not changed your password as of the database compromise that you do so immediately. If you changed your passwords as of our previous mass email, your account is still safe.
Examples of the negative consequences of such account hijacks can be seen in this forum topic.
Please bear with us as we try and keep this apparent breach in account security as painless as possible.
Several banned users such as Tongara and x64—widely associated with spinoff community PoundStuff—have had found their IPs and useragents matched to several compromised accounts of users who never got our original mass email regarding a database hijack. Among users who have been found to have had their accounts hijacked include (but are not limited to) Yarharhar, Ashura2k, Blue Cheese, and Perfect Chaos Zero. Each of these users have had their passwords reset and an email sent their way regarding the security of their account.
THIS HAS NOT STOPPED BECOMING AN ISSUE. If you have not changed your password since we made this initial announcement, your account is still at risk. Several members in the oldbies group in particular have already had their accounts compromised; users with higher-level forum access are far more likely to be subject to abuse, so it's strongly advised that if you have not changed your password as of the database compromise that you do so immediately. If you changed your passwords as of our previous mass email, your account is still safe.
Examples of the negative consequences of such account hijacks can be seen in this forum topic.
Please bear with us as we try and keep this apparent breach in account security as painless as possible.