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Hacking a turducken? Seriously, folks?

Posted on December 22, 2011 by Dissent

LordKaT.com posted a curious message to members last week that they should change their passwords. It begins:

If you have an account on this site, you should change your password. Why?

Something strange happened on the site this morning. Our Turducken is Tasty, Tuesday Tech Talk, and How to Do It videos were removed from the site, along with a forum post about Battlemaster.

Nothing else appears to have been changed, but logs were truncated due to SQL server performance issues. So, we can’t exactly pinpoint what happened via Drupal.

We can’t pinpoint what happened via server logs either. There doesn’t appear to be any red flags in our server logs. SQL doesn’t appear to have been compromised, and there’s no evidence of the database being downloaded.

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The database contains your: username, hashed and salted password, e-mail address, and any other additional information you provided in your profile.

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