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Curse.com fails to notify Bukkit.org users of data breach (maxkorlaar.com)
5 points by Sleaker on Dec 7, 2015 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


It's actually worse than the online post here indicates. There was another <script> tag at the bottom of the page that had remained there, seemingly missed after the password theft script had been removed.

Ultimately I think the site's been serving foreign (potentially malicious) JS for about two months with Curse having been aware for probably a month without users being informed. The password theft script was definitely there for at least a month before it was removed. It's great to hear Curse are working on a bug bounty programme but I as I mentioned in IRC it's disappointing to see such a big company respond like this.

There's some more information available from the channel IRC logs: https://korobi.io/network/esper/channel/bukkit/logs/2015/12/...


It gets worse that they're "still writing an announcement" to this day.

http://bukkit.org/threads/let-users-know-their-password-was-...


It's unfortunate the thread was locked, I feel like it's an important topic to discuss. I only hope the official announcement thread stays open for discussion.




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