Breaking News 27th April 2012

Late yesterday evening (UK time) the poker forum run by the publishers 2+2 was closed down. As some of you will be aware the 2+2 forum is one of largest and most active poker forums on the internet. Administrators of this forum have indicated that they took the steps to close the forum due to it being compromised by hackers. They released the following statement;

"On April 26th at approximately 11:20 AM pacific time, the Two Plus Two Forums were closed as a result of a hacker who has displayed the ability to access e-mail addresses and encrypted passwords.  He also indicated the ability to decrypt passwords.

While it is unclear the extent of data to which he gained access, e-mail addresses and passwords on the Two Plus Two forums should be considered compromised.  If you have used your 2+2 password on any other site, you are advised to change it."

It would seem advisable that any user of this forum take steps to change their passwords, etc, in the event of this data being compromised.