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Sitepoint Hacked

Post by brendanhedges » Fri Feb 05, 2021 4:42 pm

Hi,

Just a heads up.

I've just received an email from Sitepoint detailing a hacking attack. If you have a Sitepoint account they advise changing your password.

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Re: Sitepoint Hacked

Post by mandville » Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:13 pm

proof please
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Re: Sitepoint Hacked

Post by brendanhedges » Fri Feb 05, 2021 5:27 pm

Your wish is my command, me lady!
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Also, as per common sense protocols demand.

Treat with a pinch of salt.
Don't click links in emails.
Log in to sites independently of any other source.
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Re: Sitepoint Hacked

Post by mandville » Fri Feb 05, 2021 8:39 pm

thanks, when you posted there was a distinct lack of news,,
Now

https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/05/ ... ply_chain/
SitePoint, an Australian learn-to-code publishing website, has been compromised while promoting the book Hacking for Dummies on its homepage.

Reg reader Andy told us: "Got an email from SitePoint this morning saying that they had been hacked and some non-important (to them) stuff like names, email addresses, hashed passwords etc might have been stolen. Coincided with a big increase in spam that I've been getting but that's probably coincidence."

An email sent to SitePoint users and seen by The Register confirmed the hack, though at the time of writing, the company has not published anything about it on its website or social media accounts.

It blamed an unnamed "third party tool we used to monitor our GitHub account, which was compromised by malicious parties."

The email sent to users said, in part:
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https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/h ... d/363732/4
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Re: Sitepoint Hacked

Post by brendanhedges » Fri Feb 05, 2021 9:07 pm

thanks, when you posted there was a distinct lack of news,,
Yay! Winner at last... :)

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Re: Sitepoint Hacked

Post by Webdongle » Fri Feb 05, 2021 11:05 pm

@mandville got pipped to the post on this one :laugh:
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