What you need to know about the recent MangaDex data breach

[billyantichrist]

Lemme get this straight... He demanded 10,000 btc... from a manga scanlation site? Guy thought he'd hacked JP Morgan & Chase or something I guess

 

[Plykiya]

@Octopooo creation IP is the IP you used at the time when you created your account
last IP is the IP you used at the time you last logged in

2FA codes are 2-Factor Authentication codes, the thing that requires you to log in with a password and a code from your phone as well

RSS keys are probably irrelevant to you and something you shouldn't care about

 

[bk3k]

@VIII

Please don't use 'lol' when responding to criticism. While I don't believe @dobu is being entire fair, the truth of the matter is that this incident is utterly embarrassing and that you guys should do better next time. So please cool the passive-aggressive tone, it's off-putting.

LOL🤣🤣🤣

They're replying to an ignorant person who knows nothing - and that's fine to know nothing right til you start talking like you know something. They got a more serious response than they deserved.
Now let me cut you in on a secret... they're all doing the work it takes to run a site as a hobby. Have you not noticed that they've never asked for your payment details? See that makes you not a customer. I used to donate (before Paypal cut them off anyhow), and I'm still not a customer either. I'm just a user/leecher/whatever you call it, and they don't owe me anything either. @dobu is also not a customer,, and they don't know shit. The MD staff doesn't owe one ounce of "professionalism". Beggars shouldn't be choosers and all that.

Now while there is certainly such a thing as constructive criticism, not all criticism is equal. Criticism from a place of total ignorance isn't remotely useful, regardless of context. It isn't worthy of respect. Neither is some person who's merely venting their misplaced rage really worthy of the term "criticism". Just a temper tantrum in my eyes. They where a hell of a lot nicer replying to that than I'd be. I don't have the patience for such fools... unless I'm getting paid to be patient with them.

Thanks to the devs/staff for what you do. Sorry you get to deal with it all this, and thank you for keeping it going instead of simply walking away.

 

[Aji6618]

Well, it's an unfortunate that they managed to do that to mangadex. But yeah, I know it's not the mangadex team's fault that he managed to do it. And the fact is that you guys must be always trying to keep the web safe too. So thanks for your hard work and keep going.

 

[Plykiya]

@LunaKara my info's been featured in like 12 different breaches lol
one more to the pile...

 

[aucune]

Some people have so much to say.
I'm just here to read manga and go.
If it works, great.
If it doesn't work, I'll come back later or not at all.

 

[Plykiya]

@Moodyz

> Btw, you might want to report yourselves to Have I Been Pwned while the eggs on your faces are still runny.

Don't have a four month old copy of a db to hand to him. If It ever gets dumped, I'm sure it'll get up there somehow. MangaFox and MangaTraders both were featured on haveibeenpwned

 

[Asterisxk]

HOMBREEEEE

 

[Richman]

my info's been featured in like 12 different breaches lol
one more to the pile...

This is the first time for me (that I'm aware of), not too worried about it but just in case already changed most things.

 

[Plykiya]

@Richman https://haveibeenpwned.com/ check it out yourself

 

[Moodyz]

@Plykiya
I was on the MangaTraders dump. Good old days. Seeing MT featured next to Adobe and Dropbox on the breach list. We'd made the big time!! Thankfully nothing lost on my end. Hardly used the site (preferred IRC back then), related email was already deactivated, and I lost the password long before that.

@billyantichrist
I think he/they meant $10,000 in BTC.

 

[Richman]

@Plykiya
then I've been pwned twice so far. Fucking weak sites I had to use for school. thnx ply.

 

[DKPOWA]

Who would ever want to mess up with you, whom are doing a holy task and I will always be grateful. Im glad you are ok. 38 Gbps wow, thats a lot, guess Im not the only daily reader...

 

[Mussab9595]

the heck. The hacker sure had alot of free time, like why even is he a red one instead of a defender. Dont get their thought process.

 

[tslay29]

@bk3k

What a great response. Wish there was a pin option somewhere or some automation to slap your message on commenters who take such a great site like this for granted.

@Plykiya and all the other Devs of this site

Thank you for your hard work and time you put into maintaining this site for all of us freeloaders.
Love the April Fools ads as well. Haters gone hate.
Awesome transparency - that's unheard of these days!

 

[Thegrimlen]

Love how there's more honesty here than any major web service after a break. Good on ya for getting the info out to us in a transparent manner! 😁

 

[Expiry]

yay! idk what to do while it's gone tbh

 

[Samhill]

@Plykiya

I'll repeat my questions since they didn't get answered:

What is the character limit for passwords? Any forbidden characters? Spaces allowed? Case sensitive?

Don't have a four month old copy of a db to hand to him. If It ever gets dumped, I'm sure it'll get up there somehow. MangaFox and MangaTraders both were featured on haveibeenpwned

Isn't that what is on Nyaa?

 

[ndd_man]

Just stole code from Mangadex, feeling good. - hacker

HOMBREEEEEE moment right there boys

 

[Plykiya]

@Samhill 8, probably no to all the rest.

The copy of the code is on nyaa, not the db. The thing on nyaa is like 100 mb, our db is well over 20 GB