Forbes has confirmed that the Syrian Electronic Army cheating team has violated the website's publishing platform. In addition to accessing the WordPress management console, hackers, as we mentioned yesterday, they also gain access to certain Twitter accounts. Today, however, following a Forbes announcement on Facebook, it became known that the Syrian Electronic Army team also gained access to the readers' data on the popular journalistic website.
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"Our users' email addresses may have been leaked. "The passwords were encrypted, but as a precaution, we encourage Forbes readers and contributors to change their passwords on our system. We also encourage them to change them on other websites if they use the same password elsewhere." Forbes on Facebook.
"We have notified the authorities of what happened. We take this issue very seriously and apologize to members of our community for this breach. "
Initially, the Syrian Electronic Army team attempted to sell the e-mail addresses and passwords they obtained from Forbes. However, an hour later, they announced that the data should be published freely on the Internet.
Two hours ago, hackers uploaded a file containing data from the 1 million Forbes users. The data as mentioned contains usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords. The data has been uploaded as reported by the SEA to a "secure server."
This probably means that it will be very difficult for Forbes to download them. The server's IP address to which the data has been uploaded is 91.227.222.39. The server, located in the United Kingdom, has been used in the past by hackers when they deformed the homepage of marines.com.
