[Omniscient]

There has been a report to me that a competing site has been compromised and that a number of HF cookies were stolen from the browser. In order to ensure that HF accounts are not stolen or used for malicious purposes I have reset all account login keys which kills all active sessions and cookies. You were forced to login again essentially.

You should be secure on HF though as long as you don't use your HF password anywhere else. And you should also enable 2FA (upgrade feature).

https://hackforums.net/gauth.php

I can't be sure of the risk involved to members but I had credible enough information that doing a forced login for everyone is a reasonable measure until I know more.

Thank you.

[OneEightSeven]

Scared me for a bit lol. I did not see any names by posts also when i was logged out.

[ama]

Thanks for the update Omni.

[ShinyThings]

Good job Omni. I'll be upgrading as soon as SoftPatch pays me on this bet he made :) Thanks for the site and all the work you guys do.

[reBELLYus]

A good way to mitigate against a potential nightmare. Nice work.

[Riyu]

I wonder which site it was :/

[Deany]

Very scary to think about. Thanks for doing this.

[DOG]

Thanks for the update boss! I was really confused why I was logged off!

Edit: I’m pretty sure we will lose some members due to some losing the key/backups authy and stuff .

[Pikachu]

That's why I got logged out. Thanks for the update, and for keeping us safe. :)

[☾rescent]

I wonder which site it was :/

fish4hoes

[Tokyo]

Thank you for the notification, security is definitely a priority.

[ama]

Thanks for the update boss! I was really confused why I was logged off!

Edit: I’m pretty sure we will lose some members due to some losing the key/backups authy and stuff .

Was thinking the exact same, happened to me a year ago when I was using Google Auth >.>

[HOMODIN]

Scared me a bit there when I saw the login screen instead of the latest posts. Thanks for keepin' us safe 🤝

[Cryptic™]

I was wondering why I was logged out randomly...

[Omniscient]

Edit: I’m pretty sure we will lose some members due to some losing the key/backups authy and stuff .

We would eventually lose them anyways. Now we just lose them all at once. :)