On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 9:13 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. > Jeremy, Almost 2 years ago I have sent you an email privately about a security hole with the database. To be exactly, the date of the email is Wed, Jul 29, 2009, 12:00 AM (GMT +02:00). I guess that's probably the same trick the bad guys have used... Kind regards, Matijn Woudt
