How PHPBB Site was Hacked and How You Can Prevent it
The simplest way to start this topic is, PHPBB is hacked. You must have heard of it by now. And there is an equal chance that you haven't. A community with almost 200.000 human members and 400,000 subscribed users have lost their privacy inside that community and there was nothing PHPBB could do but to put up a foolish status message like this just below.
But the question is, how did the hacker (say script kiddie if you like, but I don't think 90% of the people naming him that can do half of what he did. No glorification though) do it? Here is a step by step description.
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