Re^6: It's Time for Everyone to Change Passwords!

[m0ve]

i agree, however i think the hack was done just to prove the site is vulnerable.

There is a really simple reason we owned PerlMonks: we couldn't resist
+ more than 50,000 unencrypted programmer passwords.

[snip]

These Perl guys are alright, just a little dumb apparently.
A lot of them reuse.

else they would have done what they usually do : rm -rf /*

update : if they knew it wasn't an active box there may have been not much of a point to rm -rf /* but i guess they could have still shut perlmonks down with the obtained data...

[shmem]

i think the hack was done just to prove the site is vulnerable.

I agree, however hacking a site that never claimed not to be vulnerable is a bit... pointless.

From Fausty's comment on wired:

Yay, how brave and skillful to “hack” something that’s already public, provided for free, and supported by volunteers.

"programmers passwords?" No, guys, just Monks passwords, for a site which runs http, that obviously stores passwords in plain text ("mail me my password"). Geez...