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[Full disclosure: AOL is the parent company of both Winamp and Download Squad]
Hackers have broken through security protecting the Winamp forum database, compromising the user forums, exposing accounts and email addresses in the process. In a post on the company's forum, Winamp's General Manager, Geno Yoham, explained that an attack was quickly detected and isolated to the Winamp forum ...
- via: TNW
- source: Winamp Forums
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