Apache.org incident report for 04/09/2010 (server and passwords compromised)

“Apache.org services recently suffered a direct, targeted attack
against our infrastructure, specifically the server hosting our
issue-tracking software.

“The Apache Software Foundation uses a donated instance of
Atlassian JIRA as an issue tracker for our projects. Among other
projects, the ASF Infrastructure Team uses it to track issues and
requests. Our JIRA instance was hosted on brutus.apache.org, a
machine running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS. Password Security

“If you are a user of the Apache hosted JIRA, Bugzilla, or
Confluence, a hashed copy of your password has been
compromised.

“JIRA and Confluence both use a SHA-512 hash, but without a
random salt. We believe the risk to simple passwords based on
dictionary words is quite high, and most users should rotate their
passwords.”

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