The owner of GameReplays.org has invited ethical hackers to probethe website for vulnerabilities after a recent compromise thatresulted in 10,000 member accounts being exposed. GameReplays.org is home to an online community of multiplayer gameenthusiasts. The site organizes professional gaming tournaments andpublishes match replays, as well as strategy guides and other tipsand tricks. On Monday, a hacker who claims to be affiliated with Anonymous anduses the Twitter handle EcecusHxc, published a list of 5,000GameReplays accounts that were copied from the site's databaseafter exploiting a vulnerability. The leaked information included email addresses and passwordhashes, as well as the corresponding salts -- secondary keys usedto encrypt password hashes so that they can't be cracked. On Tuesday, the hacker published a list of an additional 5,000GameReplays member emails and passwords, raising the total numberof exposed accounts to 10,000. According to GameReplays co-owner and general manager Jon LeMaitre,Ececus sent an email to the website's administrators on Sunday,claiming that he found a vulnerability and is willing to share thetechnical details if he is given proper credit for the discovery. "Given that he sent the email in Spanish, and I was out celebratingMemorial Day weekend, I had no chance to address his email andthank him for alerting us to the issue," LeMaitre said in a blog post on Tuesday. "Because I was not able to respond to an email(written in a language I don't know), within 24 hours, he decidedto go ahead and give himself credit for the hack." Since Ececus didn't share the vulnerability details, theGameReplays team had to stop working on new website features thatwere in development, and dedicate their time to investigate thesecurity issue. The team plans to notify users who had their information exposedvia email and the GameReplays forum. "Once this vulnerability hasbeen fixed, we will re-salt everyone's passwords and take extrasteps to make sure everyone's accounts are more secure in thefuture," LeMaitre said. Ironically, GameReplays supports Anonymous' mission of exposing thecorrupt links between businesses and governments that result inlegislative proposals like PROTECT-IP, which threaten the verynature of the Web, LeMaitre said. "Sadly, there are people like_ecECus_ who give Anonymous and other hackers a bad reputation,since his goal isn't to help, but rather, to be immature and strokehis own ego." Despite the bad experience with Ececus, LeMaitre is not discouragedfrom collaborating with hackers in the future and invited them tohelp locate vulnerabilities in GameReplays, but in a responsiblemanner. "Unfortunately, because we have such limited developmentresources, we cannot do this alone. Therefore anyone who helps uswill be given due credit," he said. LeMaitre's attitude toward unsanctioned security audits is similarto that of vendors like Google, Mozilla, Facebook or Twitter, whichgive credit, or even monetary rewards, to hackers who findvulnerabilities in their services and report them privately. We are high quality suppliers, our products such as China Swimming Pool Brush , China Flexible Plastic Bucket for oversee buyer. To know more, please visits Swimming Pool Chemical Dispenser.
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