Perlmonks website hacked. All passwords have been disclosed!

Jacques Supcik jacques at supcik.org
Wed Jul 29 23:58:04 UTC 2009


As Perl developers, you might also have an account on PerlMonks:

http://www.perlmonks.org/

Unfortunately, the user database of this site has been compromised and
it seems that they saved the passwords in clear text.

According to the info on their web page:
*all perlmonks users are advised to change their perlmonks.org passwords
immediately.*

Note: I received the information from PAUSE (Perl Authors Upload Server):
> This email is being sent to inform you that all passwords on the popular
> Perl Monks website were compromised.  Many CPAN authors have accounts
> there and in some cases have used the same password for PAUSE.

-- Jacques.



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