[colug-432] Looks like Linux Mint Forum got hacked

[pat at linuxcolumbus.com]

On 2016-09-18 11:29, Rob Stampfli wrote:
> I run my own email server so I can create many different email 
> addresses,
> which I do every time I have to give one out for some reason.  This 
> makes
> it easy to deactivate the occasional address which gets compromised.
> This morning I had a spam message waiting in my inbox, offering to sell
> me Samsung S6 Edges (individually or in bulk) at a presumably good 
> price.
> The mail came from "darkhack.su" -- no beating around the bush there --
> and was delivered to an address that I only used to set up an account 
> on
> the linuxmint.com forum years ago.  I haven't been very active in that
> forum, last posting in 2014 and last logging in in February, but a word
> to the wise:  It looks like their database of users has been 
> compromised,
> so if you are a member of that forum, beware of any emails you may 
> receive
> from the Linux Mint community.
> 

Again? They got hacked in February. http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=3001

Pat