A Firefox advocacy website called
Spread Firefox has
been brought down by hackers who attempted to take it over to send spam, it
emerged today.
The site had to close briefly while the attack was cleaned up. It is not
known whether the attack was an attempt to place Trojan software on the site or
to use the accounts of registered users as a spam directory.
"It appears that a part of Spread Firefox was hacked in an attempt to use it
to send out spam," said Asa Dotzlerin on the
site's
blog.
"It doesn't look like the attacker accessed any personal data on the site,
but to be safe we're encouraging all our users to log in and change their
passwords.
"If you have an account with Spread Firefox, you probably received an email
about this with instructions for updating your password."
The site stores details of members' email and instant messaging accounts,
along with street names and birthdays.
Spread Firefox raised more than $200,000 last December for a two-page ad for
Firefox in The New York Times and has a claimed membership of about
100,000.
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