Whirlpool.net.au is a well known Australian Broadband forum and plan search website, that not only covers broadband but includes many things such as the latest gadgets, windows/mac applications and interesting websites around the internet. However, today an announcement has been made that one week earlier, hackers ‘may have’ breached security on the site used by over 180,000 users around the world.

“Last week, Whirlpool was subject to a hack attempt,” Simon Wright told users in a post made on the popular site. He also went on to say “it is possible that some forum data was able to be compromised.”

This announcement however, comes 1 week late. Users accounts could have been comprimised, or passwords used on other websites to hack user emails, websites or forum username/passwords. No mention of how secure these passwords were stored in the database, however Whirlpool are stressing that any user with an account at whirlpool change their whirlpool password by using the password reset link and to change any other accounts on other sites which may use the same password.

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