Vanwege een (vergeten) Avast account uit mijn Windows periode ontving ik zojuist deze mail :
Dear xxx (mijn gebruikersnaam),
The AVAST forum is currently offline and will remain so for a brief period. It was hacked over this past weekend and user nicknames, user names, email addresses and hashed (one-way encrypted) passwords were compromised. Even though the passwords were hashed, it could be possible for a sophisticated thief to derive many of the passwords. If you use the same password and user names to log into any other sites, please change those passwords immediately. Once our forum is back online, all users will be required to set new passwords as the compromised passwords will no longer work.
This issue only affects our community-support forum. No payment, license, or financial systems or other data were compromised.
We are now rebuilding the forum and moving it to a different software platform. When it returns, it will be faster and more secure. This forum for many years has been hosted on a third-party software platform and how the attacker breached the forum is not yet known. However, we do believe that the attack just occurred and we detected it essentially immediately.
We realize that it is serious to have these usernames stolen and regret the concern and inconvenience it causes you. However, this is an isolated third-party system and your sensitive data remains secure.
All the best,
Ondrej Vlcek
COO AVAST Software
Vorige week eBay en nu is dus een anti-virus ontwikkelaar gehackt. Avast. Het is hier niet van belang maar toch wel het vermelden waard omdat het wel ernstig genoemd mag worden dat een software ontwikkelaar die 'in het metier actief is' getroffen wordt.
Kun je de vraag nog stellen òf het ooit gebeurt dat een bank wordt gehackt? Misschien moeten we ons bezig houden met voorbereid te zijn daarop, zonder dat het tot nerveuze gedachten lijdt.
Gast
