MusicBrainz hacked?


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I am a member and I got a strange email from them today. Was wondering if anyone else got the "Mandatory" password chane email? I haven't clicked the link in it, but if it's real, I will go directly to the site and change it.

Here is the email, slightly altered to remove my username:

Dear XXXXXXX,

On March 29th 2013 we discovered that one of the MusicBrainz database dumps

contained password hashes for a large portion of MusicBrainz accounts. While we

don't believe that these password hashes are either useful or widely

distributed, we are requiring all users change their passwords.

The database dumps that contain this data were promptly deleted, and have been

replaced with correctly sanitized database dumps. Unfortunately logs from this

server do show that this database dump was downloaded, and as we have no real

indication of where this data now is, we're treating this seriously. We have

adjusted our database dumping scripts to be very specific about exactly which

data they should export, so that in the future we will not leak private data by

making the same mistake again.

We're extremely sorry about this mistake, and while we don't believe this data

should allow attackers to retrieve user passwords, we can't be 100% certain. As

such, we require that all users change their password as soon as possible.

The next time you login to the website, you will be requested to change your

password. Alternatively, you can go to the following link:

https://musicbrainz....ory=1&username=

Users should also note that access to authenticated web service calls, for

example to manage tags and ratings via Picard, are also blocked until passwords

are changed. If you are finding that software that uses MusicBrainz is not

behaving as youd expect, please check that you can login via the website.

For more details, please see the blog post:

http://blog.musicbrainz.org/?p=1844

We're extremely sorry this happened, and thank you for your co-operation.

- The MusicBrainz Team

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If you like and trust the site, then play it safe and change the password anyway (going directly to the site rather than using the link in the email, as you correctly pointed out).

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Ok, upon going directly there, I put my pass in and it then it wanted me to put in my old pass then a new one. So I guess it's legit.

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