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Originally Posted by BootBoy
So, anybody any clue as to how the address's were compromised?
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Clues - yes. Certainties - no.
We think it was via the nthellworld domain. A quite old copy of the vB software was still present on the old domain (which we hadn't realised) and this had a number of security holes in it that
could have been used to extract addresses,
if someone with the right technical knowledge had wanted.
There is no way of ever actually proving this, other than a confession from the people involved, but after three days of investigations, this seemed the most likely route. It doesn't explain why only a selection of addresses appear to have been extracted.
Needless to say, that old software has been removed (and a few other changes made).