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[plecoman]

I assume may of you are members on cichlid-forum.com. I received an email from them today that said:

Greetings Cichlid Fans!
This is an important announcement. We have discovered that Cichlid-Forum.com was compromised by a hacker. This particular hacker was able to share the username and corresponding email address that you used to create your account. The hacker was also able to expose an encrypted version of your password. This encryption can be cracked. Therefore, we ask that you visit this page and fill out the short form. Subsequently, an email will be sent to you which will guide you though a password change.
If you happen to use the same password for your email service provider (e.g. Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail, Gmail, AOL Mail, Pop3, etc) that you used to register with Cichlid-Forum.com, we recommend you change that email account password as well.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
See you on the site!

Cichlid-Forum Staff


Did anyone else receive an email like this from them?

[ree123]

Yes. I received a similar or the same message.

[kyangelsncorys]

i received the same email , but im not going to give them my pass word

[ree123]

I did not respond either.

[plecoman]

I haven't done anything yet either. I think I'll change my password on other forums and leave this one alone. I normally don't login there anyway. I normally use the same password for forums, because I belong to so many different ones, but I don't use it for any important websites.

[ree123]

Same here.
So far I have changed none, as I have seen no reasons.
I have several and don't think I am compromised.

[paddysdaddy]

Cichlid forum has lost this member for life. The 1.5 hours I spent changing other passwords was more than they were worth.

[plecoman]

LOL..... I hear you!

[davidtcb1]

I got this email too, but haven't done anything. Will check it out when I can.

[signde]

rule #1 of passwords is never use the same password on more than one site unless you don't care if your account is compromised.

if you have used the password you used on cichlid forums on other sites, and those sites are important, you had best change your password there. most importantly would be the email address you used to register with on cichlid forums since the email address was part of the clear text that was compromised.