Thank you so much for letting the users know so early on. Bugzilla/forum passwords should probably be reset as well for appdb users, there's no doubt most people share passwords with the appdb. On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 8:13 PM, Jeremy White <jwhite@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I am sad to say that there was a compromise of the WineHQ database system. > > What we know at this point that someone was able to obtain unauthorized > access to the phpmyadmin utility. We do not exactly how they obtained > access; it was either by compromising an admins credentials, or by > exploiting an unpatched vulnerability in phpmyadmin. > > We had reluctantly provided access to phpmyadmin to the appdb developers > (it is a very handy tool, and something they very much wanted). But it > is a prime target for hackers, and apparently our best efforts at > obscuring it and patching it were not sufficient. > > So we have removed all access to phpmyadmin from the outside world. > > We do not believe the attackers obtained any other form of access to the > system. > > On the one hand, we saw no evidence of harm to any database. We saw no > evidence of any attempt to change the database (and candidly, using the > real appdb or bugzilla is the easy way to change the database). > > Unfortunately, the attackers were able to download the full login > database for both the appdb and bugzilla. This means that they have all > of those emails, as well as the passwords. The passwords are stored > encrypted, but with enough effort and depending on the quality of the > password, they can be cracked. > > This, I'm afraid, is a serious threat; it means that anyone who uses the > same email / password on other systems is now vulnerable to a malicious > attacker using that information to access their account. > > We are going to be resetting every password and sending a private email > to every affected user. > > This is again another reminder to never use a common username / password > pair. This web site provides further advice as well: > http://asiknews.wordpress.com/2011/03/02/best-practice-password-management-for-internet-web-sites/ > > I am very sad to have to report this. We have so many challenges in our > world today that this is a particularly painful form of salt for our wounds. > > However, I think it is urgent for everyone to know what happened. > > Cheers, > > Jeremy > > >
