Web forum site still down

The website for a popular open-source web forum application remains down after hackers knocked it offline earlier this week. The culprits bragged in a blog that they cracked phpBB.com by exploiting a previously announced bug in its PHPList mailing list manager, used to notify users about new product releases. -- DK
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