[AusNOG] APNIC resets passwords after whois credentials spill
Bevan Slattery
bevan at slattery.net.au
Tue Oct 24 23:03:26 EST 2017
+1. Exemplary.
[b]
> On 24 Oct 2017, at 9:12 pm, Ian Henderson <ianh at ianh.net.au> wrote:
>
>> On 24 October 2017 at 07:00, Mister Pink <misterpink at gmail.com> wrote:
>> APNIC has been forced to reset all passwords for objects in its whois database after leaking authentication credentials that were hashed with a relatively weak hashing algo.
>
> Hats off to APNIC's response here, they were honest, timely, and decisive. Sure this should have been cleaned up years ago, but eh, these things happen.
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