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Sunday, August 14, 2011

Mibbit Server Compromised


Last day i had posted about Mibbit Hack . The Mibbit had detected the unauthorized access to the server which runs their blog. The Mibbit had opened a new blog at Blogger  .In response to this Mibbit shut it down and began investigating . Later today at around 8pm GMT Mibbit shutdown the IRC services after it became clear that several pieces of backed up data had been accessed maliciously from another server, tools.mibbit.com. Mibbit now know the data's  included The personal information of 9 Mibbit operators including their names, accounts and e-mail addresses . A backup of nickserv data from April 2011 with up to 10,000 user nicknames and their credentials andTwo sets of backup data for one operator user account PMs and Channel logs, used for testing are Leaked. Currently Mibbit are working on securing and restoring the affected services.  Mibbit are treating this as a significant and malicious attack on Mibbit services which impacts  users and which has placed user data at risk.  Mibbit are continuing to work to remedy this situation and bring back affected services online as quickly as possible.  Mibbit asked apologies for the disruption, inconvenience and difficulty this attack has caused to you and your users. As Mibbit have updates about the attack, the backup data which was stolen from tools.mibbit and the next steps to recover services we will share it via the blog and the #help channel.


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