This may be of interest to those of us who had an account on the main website of phpbb.com. I suspect it will only affect our administrators who had accounts there for research and updates, but you never know. Their site was hacked recently and over 20,000 usernames and passwords were published in the hacker's blog. The fact that other people have had an opportunity to download the username/password file makes me wonder when someone is going to attempt to use those same usernames and passwords as dictionary attacks against other sites. Users have a tendency to recycle usernames and passwords between sites and hackers are well aware of this.

So the point of all this is: might want to change your password if you happened to have had an account on phpbb.com and also happened to use the same password elsewhere. Only easily cracked passwords were included in those 20,000+ accounts that were revealed, so yours is not guaranteed to have been among those, but there's no sense in risking anything. I'm more worried about my email being in a hacker's hands now (one who took the time to point out what 400,000 registered emails would go for on the spam market). :P

But hey. At least he's got some amount of class, using lolcats on his blog and all...