On Thu, Jan 23, 2014 at 4:57 PM, Shlomi Fish wrote:

>
> Seems that blogs.perl.org was hacked last night. Passwords are salted
> and encrypted, but if you use blogs.perl.org you may want to change
> your password if it is used in other places.
>
> http://perlhacks.com/2014/01/blogs-perl-org/
>

Actually, the passwords are encrypted and salted using crypt(3), which is
famously not really strong.

the site was using an old version of Movable Type. More recent versions are
using SHA 512. update your software people!

Shmuel.
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