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Sunday, February 21st, 2016
| Time |
Event |
| 4:11a |
Linux Mint downloads (briefly) compromised The Linux Mint blog announces that the project's
web site was compromised and made to point to a backdoored version of the
distribution. " As far as we know, the only compromised edition was Linux Mint 17.3 Cinnamon edition.
If you downloaded another release or another edition, this does not affect you. If you downloaded via torrents or via a direct HTTP link, this doesn’t affect you either.
Finally, the situation happened today, so it should only impact people who downloaded this edition on February 20th."
Update: it appears
that the Linux Mint forums were compromised too; users should assume that
their passwords have been exposed. |
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