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leftnode on Feb 2, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: PhpBB's site hacked

This sucks. I've been a fan of phpBB for a while now as a free bulletin board, and it always sucks when some asshole hacks your site and screws stuff up for a while.

I know they should've kept the installation up to date, but you could probably say that about tons of other companies.

queenzeal on Feb 3, 2009 [–]

The attack took place on January 14th, per the blog. The patch was released on January 29th, per this:

http://www.phplist.com/?lid=274

Based on that, they very well could have been up-to-date when they were hacked. As such, to chide them on it seems inappropriate.

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