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Paul M · #78 11-17-2013, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by hugh_

Was this an SQL injection and not a hack or vulnerability?

They broke into an old stage server, mainly used by QA for test installs of vB4 & vB5.
Its not know exactly how, but at one point there were in the region of 100 old installs on it, so anyone of them could have been used.

The best guess from evidence is that they hacked it sometime in late summer, and at some point between then and early October they uploaded adminer.
They then appear to have cracked a mysql user password for the Live DB server, and used it (via adminer) to read the vb.com and vb.org user tables.

After that it appears they moved on (they deleted adminer). Nothing was known about this until their facebook post the other day.

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