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Tapatalk Security Incident
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Author:  MtDewMike [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 1:25 pm ]
Post subject:  Tapatalk Security Incident

I received this email over the weekend while I was traveling:

Quote:
Dear Tapatalk Forum Community,

Today we discovered that someone had used an exploit in a third party plugin on the Tapatalk support forums, leading to the disclosure of email addresses and encrypted passwords, and possibly passwords in cleartext if you attempted to login since December 9th.

Due to this incident, please log into www.tapatalk.com/v2 and change your password.

Please choose a strong password, containing a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and even symbols if possible.
Never use the same password on more than one site. Passwords should be unique to each site they access in order to comply with basic security best practices.
No other systems appear to have been affected and we will continue to perform audits. In the meantime our support forums will be brought back online but we will be rolling back the site approximately a week as a precaution. Posts and messages since that time will not be restored in this process.

Again, all passwords have been invalidated and will no longer work. Please reset your password using the reset password page and then following the instructions provided in the email.

We are sorry for this inconvenience and thank you for your patience,

The Tapatalk Team

I know there have been some spam posts over the weekend, and I'm assuming this is the reason for them.

I will get the latest update for our board's Tapatalk plugin, and will schedule a time to install it within the next 2 days. Updates usually don't take long.

In the meantime, for those of you who use Tapatalk, I suggest changing your passwords as advised above.

Author:  Fiachra [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 2:56 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tapatalk Security Incident

I don't have an account there. Niiice.

Author:  Bklyn.X [ Tue Dec 16, 2014 3:04 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tapatalk Security Incident

...just closed mine...

Author:  MtDewMike [ Wed Dec 17, 2014 5:36 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Tapatalk Security Incident

I have downloaded the update, and plan on updating it tomorrow morning - Wednesday, Dec. 18 - at 10:00 AM EST.

The update usually does not take long to perform. I will post up once the update is finished.

Please plan accordingly.

Author:  MtDewMike [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:18 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Tapatalk Security Incident

The Tapatalk plugin has been updated on our board to 4.7.0. I have tested it out from my phone, and all is working well.

If you run into any issues, please let me know.

Author:  Fiachra [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:22 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Tapatalk Security Incident

Thanks Prez.

Author:  Bklyn.X [ Thu Dec 18, 2014 10:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Tapatalk Security Incident

Thank You sir

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