PHPBB official website (www.phpbb.com) has been compromised...
PHPBB( PHP Bulletin Board) is an internet forum package in PHP language. Recently on Sunday, December'2014 it was seen that the official website for PHPBB was compromised and the site was immediately put down for maintenance.
This is what the index page of PHPBB.com looks like after the attack. The maintenance notice is put down by the PHPBB officials clearly stating about the attack and also conforming that the personal PHPBB forums are safe and were not being compromised by the attack. You can view the PHPBB website(www.phpbb.com) for the Downtime Notice.
As stated, it would take take several days to rebuild the system back.
The investigations on the case are going on, but for now there are no signs of how and by whom the attack was done.
PHPBB( PHP Bulletin Board) is an internet forum package in PHP language. Recently on Sunday, December'2014 it was seen that the official website for PHPBB was compromised and the site was immediately put down for maintenance.
This is what the index page of PHPBB.com looks like after the attack. The maintenance notice is put down by the PHPBB officials clearly stating about the attack and also conforming that the personal PHPBB forums are safe and were not being compromised by the attack. You can view the PHPBB website(www.phpbb.com) for the Downtime Notice.
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| phpbb.com downtime notice after the attack |
As stated, it would take take several days to rebuild the system back.
The investigations on the case are going on, but for now there are no signs of how and by whom the attack was done.