MyBB Security Warning

[int0x10]

Just a heads up to everyone that if you're running a MyBB forum, it's critical that you check to make sure there were no suspicious database backups between 14th November 23:00 GMT to 15th November 15:30 GMT. During this time the MyBB GitHub repository was compromised and the database backup system was hacked to download copies of the database to the hacker(s).

MyBB's alert and advice is available here, since I didn't notice it until today (luckily I wasn't affected 😉).

 

[Ramo]

Thanks for the heads up! I just signed up for a Mybb forum so luckily I wasn't affected either as I have my forum closed while were setting it up. Hopefully though this doesn't happen in the future for us Mybb forum owners!

 

[R44]

luckily I wasn't affected either as I have my forum closed

Ahh the old security by obscurity. I'd still check it if I were you, because if a hacker got access, and you don't know or haven't changed your password, then you'll be hacked again, and again and again.

 

[Cosmic]

Whoa, that's pretty bad. Thanks for letting us know.

 

[MwsFan]

Yikes! Thank God I do not use mybb.

 

[C]

Thank you for sharing! I wish they would have sent an email or something! Without seeing your post, I probably never would have known! 🙂

 

[Ramo]

Thank you for sharing! I wish they would have sent an email or something! Without seeing your post, I probably never would have known! 🙂

That could be why they never sent an email out. They didn't want people sending endless emails asking about what's going on. Some things are better being left unsaid.

 

[int0x10]

Thank you for sharing! I wish they would have sent an email or something! Without seeing your post, I probably never would have known! 🙂

That could be why they never sent an email out. They didn't want people sending endless emails asking about what's going on. Some things are better being left unsaid.

It definitely wouldn't be better to keep it a secret and make hundreds of users vulnerable to hacking, even if it does cause a little bit of a stir at first 😉