well this explains alot thankfully.

"Coordinators, Please cross-post this to any Camarilla lists that are not on the White Wolf servers, so that all members can be advised of this situation...

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12/12/05 - 4:15 PM EST

Like many other companies of the last few years, White Wolf was the target of an attack by international hackers this weekend. These hackers are now attemptnig to extort money from us with the threat of posting user data to the internet. We have no intention of paying this money, and are in contact with the FBI in an attempt to bring these criminals to justice.

We are choosing to make this public so that our users and fans can take any precautions needed to protect themselves.

We are recommending that if you have used your White Wolf user password as the password for any other services you use on the internet, that you change them immediately.

These hackers were able to exploit a flaw in our software and access user data, this data included usernames, email addresses and encrpyted passwords.

As far as we can ascertain, they were unable to access any credit card data (nor have they claimed they did.) However, it is possible for the encrypted passwords they accesses to be decrypted given enough time.

In addition, the site will be down for the next few days while we evaluate some of the software we are using and take appropriate actin to help prevent future attacks.

When our site comes back up, we will be requiring users to select new passwords for the login to the White Wolf site.

We appreciate your patience and concern while we work through the details of this process. In addition to this notice, the user database will be emailed with this information. If you have any immediate questions, please contact Kelley BH at: krisnitori@nyctophobia.com, as the WW email server may also be taken down for a brief time while this issue is addressed.


Kelley BH
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Club Director"