If you’re arriving here and wondering what is happening then listen up:

A few days ago singletrackworld.com got hacked in a big way. Details of which can be read on the blog.

Due to various security implications we couldn’t restore the old site. So this forum was set up so that you wouldn’t all run away.

You must now re-register with a new username (it can be the same as your previous one). Once you are approved (which should be fairly quick) you’ll be emailed a password.

You’ll be able to change this password once logged it. But DO NOT change it to what your old one was – particularly if using the same username.

Any questions?

😀

Where do you click tp change your password once logged in????

click on your username, then “edit this information”.

do you know how much of our info got out for public viewing? Is it just email addy, password, and anything else in the profile?

just username, email address and encrypted password.

It would only be a problem if you used the same username and password for a more sensitive account, someone unencrypted your password, then attempted to access services you might use.

cheers, should be fine then.

do you know how much of our info got out for public viewing? Is it just email addy, password, and anything else in the profile?

The following data was released- it is basically anything that you filled in as your forum details (note the forum is completely separate from subscription details). Ive commented on the important ones:

uid
name- your name
uname- your username
email- email address
femail- not sure what this one is but for me it was the same as “email”
url- your website if you filled it in
pass- your password md5 encrypted. I had a 8 character password and trying to brute force it I gave up after 6 hours
newsletter- if you subscribe to the newsletter or not
banned
storynum
umode
uorder
thold
noscore
bio- optionally what you wrote about yourself to display on your forum profile
ublockon
ublock
theme
commentmax
counter
conversionflag
icq- optional details
aol- optional details
yahoo- optional details
msn- optional details
jabber- optional details
regdate
last_seen
image
signature- the optional signature at the bottom of your forum post
permission_level
max_group_permission_level
domain- the ip of the last place you signed in
regtext- dont know what this is- I never had it filled in

99% of people have nothing to worry about. The small percentage of people who had very weak passwords or use the same passwords for their email account as they do for website accounts should follow the Singletrack advice and change their passwords.