There has been a massive data breach impacting over 1.8 million users of the Ubuntu operating system this weekend.
Canonical, the lead developers of the Ubuntu Linux-based operating system, has admitted that its online forums were not just defaced this weekend, but also that hackers managed to steal every users’ email address, password and username from the Ubuntu Forums database.
The first clue that anything was amiss was when hackers posted a (hard-to-miss) message on the Ubuntu Forums homepage of a penguin holding a sniper’s rifle:
This was later released by an official statement from Ubuntu Forums:
Read more: http://grahamcluley.com/2013/07/ubuntu-forums-hack/
