{"id":53801,"date":"2016-07-18T14:12:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/?p=53801"},"modified":"2016-07-18T14:12:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T14:12:43","slug":"2m-users-exposed-ubuntu-breach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pcmatic.com\/blog\/2m-users-exposed-ubuntu-breach\/","title":{"rendered":"2M Users Exposed in Ubuntu Breach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular software platform, Ubuntu,\u00a0suffered a security breach of their forums last week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Ubuntu shut down their forums on July 14, 2016 after they were notified of a security breach.\u00a0 A third-party claimed to have a copy of the forum database.\u00a0 Once this was confirmed, the forums were shut down until the vulnerability could be properly addressed.<\/p>\n<p>At this time, it is known that 2 million users&#8217; IPs, email addresses and user names were accessible to the hacker.\u00a0 The software platform has 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