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What exactly do you expect the story to say? As of right now, no one knows any real details..
This is PollyWolly Dinglehoffer reporting live from AAAAVeeIn...
It has recently been reported that an unknown person from an unknown location has breached the admin section from an unknown number of webmaster programs using the NATS affiliate software.
It's not clear what information was taken nor is it known if the unknown perpetrator from the unknown location has used any personal webmaster information. Since we have no clue if any personal webmaster information was used, we don't know which webmaster was affected or in what way.
Stay tuned to this story as we bring you further details giving you the information as it unfolds. For now, this is PollyWolly Dinglehoffer reporting live from AAAAVeeIn...
The trouble with town criers is that they get 1 sliver of information and then start using words like "might", "could", "perhaps", "should", "would". You won't hear them use the words "is" or "does" very often when they shout from the roof-tops.
Yeah, it sucks that it happened, but the person who did it will most likely be caught. Keep in mind that they didn't "hack" the program, they knew the user name and password that NATS admins used for themselves - either from setting up NATS on their own servers, or a friend of someone who set up NATS on their server.
Since this was a breach and not a hack, it would seem reasonable that the person wasn't specifically after webmaster personal data such as social security numbers but rather the email addresses.
Once they start using them, and with the help of law enforcement, it's not hard to trace it back to the person/persons involved.
So, run off and change your epass (and similar) passwords. You're an idiot to repetitively use the same passwords over and over to begin with and the nuisance is your punishment. Keep an eye out for shared passwords for your members section and you'll most likely find that this is the worst you'll suffer from all this.
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