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ProjectEuler is offline
By RodionGork, 10 years ago, In Russian

Probably many of you already have heard of it — currently (8 a.m. June 16 2014 GMT) the site looks like this:

ProjectEuler offline announcement

If no — you may want to take care of your credentials. Most people at forums are now discussing who used which passwords :)

I'm however mostly curious about other question: how may this happen, technically and to what extent which data are "compromised". As I remembered, Project Euler offered very little interaction with user:

  • submitting answers;
  • watching "friends";
  • changing passwords and e-mails.

so probably it was hacked (if was) through other means — broken ssh, stolen admin passwords etc. — do not know. (though some people may hypothetize on recent heartbleed bug — I do not remember the site ever used https)

But if anyone have more knowledge of "how the ProjectEuler works" and what had happened and when it is going to return to life — please, share your info!

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I don't understand why they are so serious about this issue. Ok, e-mails and passwords may be stolen, users should be warned and that's all, it is not a big deal.

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    Yes, it puzzles me too. And why going offline for two days? Fixing vulnerability and "investigating the full extent of the issue"?

    users should be warned and that's all

    BTW exactly this happened to e-bay recently but exactly as you said they just asked to change passwords without going offline (obviously they've managed to close the "breach" on-the-flight).

    Though probably PE has not that many developers and admins compared to e-bay (I do not know how many at all) and currently have no spare time? :-o

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