I Sincerely hope that all of you hackers get arrested, sent to jail, and drop the soap. Seriously, you deserve every form of punishment you get, both legal, and illegal. Message body Yesterday we were notified that our public forum security had been breached and all forum members' user names, email addresses and encrypted passwords were downloaded. While the person responsible has claimed there is no malicious intent, that their actions were merely to show there was an exploitable security weakness in the forum and that there will be no attempt to crack the encrypted passwords, we feel that forum members should be aware of potential risks and act accordingly.

If you use similar combinations of email address, password and/or username on other websites, you might consider changing your login credentials on those sites.

The forum software has been upgraded since we were informed of this breach and the security weakness that was exploited in this attack has been eliminated.

We apologize for this inconvenience and encourage you to get in touch with us if you have any questions regarding this event.

Regards,

Gary Sheehan
Gary@COBB
COBB Tuning

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"The forum software has been upgraded since we were informed of this breach and the security weakness that was exploited in this attack has been eliminated."


--->Thats what this is all about folks

Websites that fail to properly security patch and/or upgrade their hosting software.

Its kinda like running Windows unpatched without a firewall, just what did you expect?

A 7ry old can get into the secure areas of most sites with a simple 4mb downloaded attack program...

Most websites are sitting ducks, totally open to anyone who happens to pay attention....

Either your Website is secure or it is not.

Sadly, more than 80% of websites are just one kiddie away from losing its users data.


Personally, I'd like to see a $10,000 fine for "each" user who suffers a personal data loss.
Now THAT would force these websites to take better care of security.

 Right now, all you get is a "we are sorry" letter...      
  

 
Although a website has responsibility to protect privacy data the majority of blame is on the hacker. When a bank is robbed do you go around saying that the bank should have hired more security personnel?