On December 16, we have been made conscious that somebody had lately gained unauthorized entry to a database from forum.ethereum.org. We instantly launched an intensive investigation to find out the origin, nature, and scope of this incident. Here’s what we all know:
- The knowledge that was lately accessed is a database backup from April 2016 and contained details about 16.5k discussion board customers.
- The leaked info consists of
- Messages, each private and non-private
- IP-addresses
- Username and e mail addresses
- Profile info
- Hashed passwords
- ~13k bcrypt hashes (salted)
- ~1.5k WordPress-hashes (salted)
- ~2k accounts with out passwords (used federated login)
- The attacker self-disclosed that they’re the identical individual/individuals who recently hacked Bo Shen.
- The attacker used social engineering to achieve entry to a cell phone quantity that allowed them to achieve entry to different accounts, certainly one of which had entry to an outdated database backup from the discussion board.
We’re taking the next steps:
- Discussion board customers whose info might have been compromised by the leak might be receiving an e mail with extra info.
- We’ve got closed the unauthorized entry factors concerned within the leak.
- We’re imposing stricter safety pointers internally akin to eradicating the restoration telephone numbers from accounts and utilizing encryption for delicate knowledge.
- We’re offering the e-mail addresses that we consider have been leaked to https://haveibeenpwned.com, a service that helps talk with affected customers.
- We’re resetting all discussion board passwords, efficient instantly.
In the event you have been affected by the assault we advocate you do the next:
- Be sure that your passwords are usually not reused between providers. In case you have reused your discussion board.ethereum.org password elsewhere, change it in these locations.
Moreover, we advocate this excellent blog post by Kraken that gives helpful details about learn how to shield towards these kind of assaults.
We deeply remorse that this incident occurred and are working diligently internally, in addition to with exterior companions to deal with the incident.
Questions could be directed to security@ethereum.org.
