Spreadfirefox hacked?

[Crusader]

I just got this e-mail.

On Tuesday, July 12, the Mozilla Foundation discovered that the server hosting Spread Firefox, our community marketing site, had been accessed on Sunday, July 10 by unknown remote attackers who exploited a security vulnerability in the software running the site. This exploit was limited to SpreadFirefox.com and did not affect other mozilla.org web sites or Mozilla software.

We don't have any evidence that the attackers obtained personal information about site users, and we believe they accessed the machine to use it to send spam. However, it is possible that the attackers acquired information site users provided to the site.

As a Spread Firefox user, you have provided us with a username and password. You may also have provided us with other information, including a real name, a URL, an email address, IM names, a street address, a birthday, and private messages to other users.

We recommend that you change your Spread Firefox password and the password of any accounts where you use the same password as your Spread Firefox account. To change your Spread Firefox password, go to SpreadFirefox.com, log in with your current password, select "My Account" from the sidebar, select "Edit Account" from the sidebar, then enter your new password into the Password fields and press the "Save user information" button at the bottom of the page.

The Mozilla Foundation deeply regrets this incident and is taking steps to prevent it from happening again. We have applied the necessary security fixes to the software running the site, have reviewed our security plan to determine why we didn't previously apply those fixes in this case, and have modified that plan to ensure we do so in the future.

Sincerely,
The Mozilla Foundation

 

[axilant]

Bound to happen, i bet it was microsoft!!!

 

[zaros64]

i bet it was microsoft!!!

cmon.. it could of been google.. nah.. I bet it was... FireFox III: Revenge of Ask Jeeves

 

[GeneCosta]

I'm putting my money on Oprah.

/sarc

 

[axilant]

it could have been: AOL/Microsoft/Opera and all the other browser companies all together just to take this website out! :P

 

[True_Snake]

That really sucks .

Some FF haters who can't stand the fact that FF is kicking every other browsers behind .


True_Snake

 

[Ben Woodhouse]

Firefox

Yer firefox is sweet, but i have been having problems with it the past few days. Dya reckon its to do with this attack thing? Every so often wen im on firefox it goes illegal operation and shuts down. im not even doing anything illegal lol. Yer Microsoft probly done. They also probly sent out loadsa viruses so that you buy there software lol.

 

[aween]

why change the passwords ? arent they md5 encrypted ? :P lol thats bad :D

 

[domain4u]

That really sucks .

Some FF haters who can't stand the fact that FF is kicking every other browsers behind .


True_Snake

BEST news i heard today who ever did that has my total appreciation


I dont hate firefox, but it just gets rated higher than it REALLY is, okay its good but not THAT good!

 

[Venolus]

Yey...good work if it was MS

 

[domain4u]

Yey...good work if it was MS

MS doesn't need to hack firefox to prove its better, plus doing so just gave firefox EXTRA FREE popularity!

It would have probably been a firefox hater somewhere in asia....

 

[Venolus]

Not me anyway, i slept well tonight

 

[gravymaster64]

lol i think it was just a dumbass hacker just trying to see what they could do and ending up making it to spreadfirefox maybe just for the press i dunno

 

[norbx]

i also got this email too, i think it was either an attack for publicity and some little script kiddy done it and tried to get microsoft in trouble or something.

 

[gravymaster64]

(almost) all the websites that ive seen have been blaming the whole thing on microsoft because of the whole Mozilla Firefox vs. Internet Explorer thing and who's browser do you all think is really better?

 

[norbx]

i think firefox, but if you remember, firefox have a dedicated team constantly working and got a audience and helpers donating etc, microsoft have one team trying to keep up and work over all subjects.

 

[gravymaster64]

true theve got their focus on the firerfox browser and microsoft has to deal with longhorn (or vista whatever the hell u wanna call it), and IE7 for Windows XP and all these other projects and their the 1s paying for all the development and of course firefox i still think is work the donations

 

[norbx]

firefox is a better browser but i generally think the layout and the page rendering seems more nicer on my pc.

 

[gravymaster64]

heres a comparison: Microsoft pushed "vista" back another year and bring hopes for thoes IE users downoad on the release of IE7 and Mozilla is realeasign Firefox 1.5, the beta in august, the official release in september and mozilla only set back what was supposed to be Firefox 1.1 only a few months (1-2 months) for the new version now called Firefox 1.5. its not like they changed the name of it because it was a failing project like microsoft did with longhorn