Unfortunately there IS some evidence about macrumours here
http://www.informationweek.com/secur.../d-id/1112235? and their admission here
http://www.macrumors.com/2013/11/12/...security-leak/ although i see no evidence of any vb hacking!
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Originally Posted by informationweek.com
In the case of MacRumors, however, lol said that the vBulletin software wasn't to blame for the breach, saying instead that "the fault lied within a single moderator." That suggests that a MacRumors moderator chose an insecure password, which lol either guessed, or matched using a dictionary attack, which attempts to guess passwords by using an exhaustive list of likely matches.
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