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HACKERS ALLEGEDLY STEAL 1.4M PASSWORDS FROM MAC FORUMS, WEB HOSTING TALK


An alleged hack at media company Penton results in another spill of millions of
passwords.
by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai
July 9, 2016, 12:45am
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A hacker or hackers has allegedly stolen more than 1.4 million passwords, email
addresses, and other data from the databases of popular forums including Web
Hosting Talk, and Mac Forums and HotScripts.

Someone who goes by the name "uid0" is offering to sell the three databases on
the dark web underground market The Real Deal for a combined 7.2 bitcoin
(approximately $4,752 at the current conversion rate), as first reported by CSO.

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On Friday, an operator of the data breach awareness site LeakedSource said that
hackers breached the media company Penton on July 4, 2016 and stole the
databases of Web Hosting Talk, Mac Forums, HotScripts.com, dBforums, and A Best
Web.

The operators, who told Motherboard that the site has obtained the hacked
databases, except the one from HotScripts.com, said the total number of users
compromised from the other four sites is 1,442,602. In his listing, the vendor
uid0 wrote that HotScripts contains a million records, so the total of victims
could be higher than 1.4 million.



The operator said that the passwords are not in plaintext, but are hashed, a
process that turns the actual password into a different string of digits. And
they're also "salted," which means a series of random bytes at the end of the
passwords was added before they got hashed, a good practice to hide the real
passwords. The bad news is that they were hashed with the MD5 algorithm, which
is notoriously weak, and the salt is in the database "next to [the] hashes,"
according to the operator.



So the passwords should be relatively easy to crack. In fact, the operator said
on Friday evening that they had cracked around 60 percent in only two hours.

LeakedSource announced the breach on its site on Friday evening, and shared a
sample with Motherboard, but we were unable to verify its legitimacy. Penton did
not respond to a request for comment.

The lesson: If you had an account on any of these forums, you should go in and
change your password. And if you reused that password anywhere else, change it
there too. And please, once again, don't reuse passwords across sites, and
consider using a password manager. For Penton and its forums, the lesson is:
don't use outdated practices when protecting your users' passwords.

Another day, another hack.


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