Some user e-mail accounts at CPDN have been compromised

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Some user e-mail accounts at CPDN have been compromised

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From the CPDN forum
'Update to: Security incident

On 18 October 2011 we suffered a hacking attack on the servers of the CPDN project.

As a volunteer driven research project for studying climate change we were very dismayed such action caused to disrupt the project. This attack unfortunately forced us to take the project down whilst the issue was investigated, during this time we conducting a full security analysis, now we are satisfied of the results of the security analysis we have brought the project back online.

Unfortunately some data of our users had been compromised. We have contacted by email all those users that are affected by this, this represents less than 0.5% of participants. If you have not been emailed (to the email address associated with that CPDN account) then you won't be affect by this issue and you need take no action on this.

We can only send this email to the email addresses associated with the accounts concerned, some of these address may now be inactive so please check any old addresses that you may have used when registering with the CPDN project. There also a possibility that your spam filter may have withheld the email.

We offer our apologies for any inconvenience caused by this. This is an exciting time for the project in terms of science, and we deeply value all the continued contribution of participants.'

Please do check that you are using an up-to-date email address for your Boinc projects. And that you use the same one for every project you join. So if you have to change your email address for CPDN please change it for your other projects too.


It's a good idea for all CPDN members also to register on the independent forum. So if this forum is ever down you can still post about problems. Registration there is separate from this forum.

http://climateprediction.net/board/index.php
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