Monthly News – February 2016

This article was posted on Tue, 01 Mar 2016 13:37:52 +0000

News The attacks Since that Saturday night on February 20th, all our efforts went towards protecting our project and our community. After the despicable attacks on our website and the deliberate attempts at hurting our users, we had to react fast and efficiently. The compromised server was shut down, all ongoing projects were stopped and […]

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All forums users should change their passwords.

This article was posted on Sun, 21 Feb 2016 15:05:36 +0000

  It was confirmed that the forums database was compromised during the attack led against us yesterday and that the attackers acquired a copy of it. If you have an account on forums.linuxmint.com, please change your password on all sensitive websites as soon as possible. The database contains the following sensitive information: Your forums username […]

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Beware of hacked ISOs if you downloaded Linux Mint on February 20th!

This article was posted on Sun, 21 Feb 2016 01:44:13 +0000

I’m sorry I have to come with bad news. We were exposed to an intrusion today. It was brief and it shouldn’t impact many people, but if it impacts you, it’s very important you read the information below. What happened? Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to […]

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