Jonathan Arbib

phpbb.com was hacked. Sites get “broken into” every day, but in this case a very thorough description was published here on how the attack was carried out. There is a lot to learn form there, even if techniques used are mostly straight forward. After the attack, someone else then ran the list of recovered passwords through an analysis program, and here is what he came out with.

Links:

phpbb Home Page

Details of Attack

Password Frequency Analysis

Happy Hacking!