Why the silence?
 

Why is VB.org and VB.com being silent on the fact that both were hacked yesterday, and access to customer data was gained? What is being done to protect VB license holders? You ought to at least email people so they can change their passwords rather than leaving it up to some outside source for us to find out about this!

Unfortunately, I don't have much faith ya'll will let this post stick around.

How do you know they were hacked?

Because the people who did it posted screenshots of the contents of the file systems. Macrumors was compromised as a result of this as well, and 800,000 user accounts possibly compromised. They made it a point to announce it so their users could take again, Internet Brands has not. Inexcusable!


https://www.facebook.com/inj3ct0rs/p...11793255548704
This is the group that did it and they include the screen captures from the shell they managed to install on the servers.

Again, I ask... why the silence? This explains why the VB.org site was mysteriously down last night!

Well I never..

I wouldn't solely trust a screenshot if my life depended on it.

I seriously doubt such a thing happened, but if it truely did, I am sure we would be advised of it.

I guess he's referring to this http://1337day.com/exploit/description/21518
Kinda scary, 0days.

1. A contractor for VB has already admitted it, then tried to bluff it out by saying it was "beta" installation on their server which was hit. But BOTH .com and .org were down, and screen shots show access to non-beta installations. http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...d.php?t=105650

2. It happened at the same time both VB.com and VB.org sites were mysteriously down.

3. The Mac site has already widely reported in the press.... then again they did the right thing and told their users immediately.

4. Just a few weeks ago the install directory exploit was reported by VB, and they pulled a similar move not broadcasting that there was an exploit until it was already widely known. I did consulting cleaning up hacked VB sites. This is not something I care to do with my consulting time, because it's money out of small business pockets they should not have had to spend!

I have defended the product for a long time when others haven't --- this I cannot.

I read the same thing here -> http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/s...d.php?t=105650


Can anybody confirm this is true?

From what i can see its not true