Nokia Developer Forum (vBulletin) Hacked

[vijayninel]

A image put up by the hacker on the forum homepage, mocking Nokia's forum security.

Nokia's developer forum was hacked and defaced yesterday and the forum has been put offline now.

A static HTML page now appears on the forum URL and says that:

Originally Posted by Nokia

During our ongoing investigation of the incident we have discovered that a database table containing developer forum members' email addresses has been accessed, by exploiting a vulnerability in the bulletin board software that allowed an SQL Injection attack. Initially we believed that only a small number of these forum member records had been accessed, but further investigation has identified that the number is significantly larger.

The database table records includes members’ email addresses and, for fewer than 7% who chose to include them in their public profile, either birth dates, homepage URL or usernames for AIM, ICQ, MSN, Skype or Yahoo. However, they do not contain sensitive information such as passwords or credit card details and so we do not believe the security of forum members’ accounts is at risk. Other Nokia accounts are not affected.

We are not aware of any misuse of the accessed data, but we are communicating with affected forum members, though we believe the only potential impact to them may be unsolicited email. Nokia apologizes for this incident.

Though the initial vulnerability was addressed immediately, we have now taken the developer community website offline as a precautionary measure, while we conduct further investigations and security assessments. We hope to get the site back online as soon as possible and will post developments here in the meantime.

This event has made international headlines. I believe Nokia's forum used vBulletin as its forum software (please correct me if I'm wrong) although I am not sure of the version number and modifications to the forum. I wonder if any of you know more about this and how they got compromised.