We’ve confirmed reports that Practical Fish Keeping indeed has been hacked. Over 24,000 usernames/passwords have been affected. How did this happen? We don’t know, but according to Softpedia passwords of customers were stored via unencrypted means making it easier for a hacker to gain access to other customers sensitive data. Bauer Media Group, the company behind Practical Fish keeping says that they have no intention of relaunching the site until security on the site has been restored. It has been well over a week and Practical fish keeping is still down and possibly for the foreseeable future with the busy holiday season coming up. Who knows when we will be able to get our freshwater fix again. We have the email sent to all users of the site, feel free to take a quick-see below.
via [SoftPedia]
亲爱的实用鱼类保管网站用户
Why are we contacting you?
You have received this message because you are a registered user of our website practicalfishkeeping.co.uk.
We have been made aware that hackers have breached our website security. This is a criminal offence, and information on our register about our readers (usernames, passwords, email addresses, postal addresses and in some cases telephone numbers) may have been viewed or taken.
我们在做什么？
我们已经立即采取了行动来保护我们持有的数据的隐私和安全性，并正在竭尽所能，以确切地调查发生的事情，并确保它不会再次发生。我们已通知警察和信息专员。
Practicalfishkeeping.co.uk is currently offline until security has been restored. You will be notified as soon as Practicalfishkeeping.co.uk is live again, and we are sincerely sorry for any inconvenience, but the security of our users is of paramount importance to us.
你该怎么办？
黑客可能会寻求使用他们必须实施身份欺诈的信息。您应该对检查信用卡或银行帐户中的意外活动以及使用Internet时遵循家庭办公室建议的额外警惕：
请参阅http：//links.specialâzys1&mt=1&rt=0。
If you used your password for practicalfishkeeping.co.uk for other websites, you should change those passwords.
How can I contact you?
Further information please contact[email protected]
It only remains for me to say how very sorry I am about what is a very upsetting and disruptive situation for us all.
Matt Clarke
Editor-in-Chief
