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Ubuntu Forums Hacked! Here Is What Hacker Stole?

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Jul 17, 2016

The forum of the most popular Linux distributions Ubuntu, was hacked. The news was reported yesterday by Jane Silber on Ubuntu insights. Although he has confirmed that not any password was hacked in the plain text, rather hashed and salted strings which are of no use for the hacker. But, the hacker successfully downloaded other users’ information.

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