TapaTalk's own forums were hacked

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  1. Denny Crane

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    Dear Tapatalk Forum Owner,

    On December 9th, we discovered that someone had used an exploit to compromise our WordPress Blog and Tapatalk Support Forums, this lead to the disclosure of email addresses and passwords of some of our support forum users. All Tapatalk Support Forum account passwords were reset and all of our forum members were notified immediately.

    As a precautionary measure for forum owners, on December 16th we also reset all passwords used to access the Tapatalk Forum Owner Admin Dashboard.

    If you have not logged in since December 16th, please do so at your earliest convenience and choose a new password.


    Next Steps to Take to Stay Secure:

    Please choose a strong password, containing a mix of upper and lower case letters, numbers and even symbols if possible.

    Refrain from using the same password on more than one site. Passwords should be unique to each site in order to comply with security best practices.

    If you are an admin or moderator of a forum, please consider resetting your Tapatalk ID password as well. You can do so by editing your profile from within the Tapatalk app, or logging in on our home page through the "App User Login In" link and select "Reset Password".

    Once logged into your Tapatalk admin console, please update your forum's Tapatalk API key. You may do so by selecting your forum and generating a new key to cut and paste into your forum system's admin CP.

    The Tapatalk Support Forums have been restored, and as a precaution, rolled back approximately one week. As the situation develops we will keep you updated.

    For your safety, Tapatalk emails will no longer contain links for password resets or any other tasks. If you receive any suspicious emails that appear to be sent by Tapatalk, do not follow any links and report the email to us as soon as possible.


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

    The Tapatalk Team
     
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    Denny Crane It's not even loaded! Staff Member Administrator

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    I bring this to your attention if you're a tapatalk user. If you have set up a Tapatalk ID to use with the app, you should probably reset your password like the email suggests.

    THIS forum has not been hacked that I know of. Knock on wood.
     

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