Firefox advocacy site hacked again

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Firefox advocacy site hacked again

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For the second time in three months, a security breach has shut down the marketing Web site used to promote the Firefox browser. Late yesterday, members of the Spread Firefox community were notified that the Spreadfirefox.com site had been hit by attackers looking to exploit a bug in the TWiki collaboration software, which was running on the server.

The Mozilla Foundation does not believe that any sensitive information was compromised in the attack, but it is encouraging the approximately 100,000 Spread Firefox members to reset their passwords. "With these things, it's hard to determine the exact nature of what happened," said Mike Schroepfer, director of engineering at the foundation's Mozilla Corp. subsidiary. "We don't believe that people were successful in getting any of that personal or sensitive information, but we're erring on the side of caution."

The Mozilla team discovered the attack over the weekend, but it appears to have been launched several weeks earlier. "The vulnerability on the TWiki software was announced on the 15th of September," Schroepfer said. "It looked like the first few attempts happened within 12 to 36 hours of those announcements going out."

Administrators will spend the next few weeks rebuilding Spreadfirefox.com, and the site is expected to be back online around Oct. 15, according to the Mozilla Foundation.

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