March 23, 2009 at 17:15Attention! Passwords!
Many probably already know that on the night of March 21-22, the free-lance.ru site was susceptible to a DDoS attack. There is an opinion that there was also a hacking of the database, as a result of which the entire user base “logged in” along with logins / passwords (the site administration forcibly changed the passwords for all users, which leads to thoughts). Since the audience of Habr and Freelance.ru intersects, we do not exclude the possibility that some users have the same password for the accounts on both sites.
In addition, among the people registered on Habré, strangely enough, there are quite a lot of those who have too simple a password. This is very bad. We are doing everything so that each user’s account is inaccessible, but we won’t be able to fully protect it if the user prevents this by setting a password of the form “123456” or “qwerty”.
In this regard, we strongly recommend that you change the password for your account on Habré.
In addition, among the people registered on Habré, strangely enough, there are quite a lot of those who have too simple a password. This is very bad. We are doing everything so that each user’s account is inaccessible, but we won’t be able to fully protect it if the user prevents this by setting a password of the form “123456” or “qwerty”.
In this regard, we strongly recommend that you change the password for your account on Habré.