Hackers about!

[bmcecosse]

One of the major Mini forums has been seriously hacked twice this week - beware! They may look for other targets.....

[irmscher]

is nothing safe

[mike.perry]

I got that one as well

[C6Dave]

Really comes down to which forum system there using and the php/apache version on the hosting server.

Some systems have known exploits in them, but the administrators fail to apply security updates that are released for various reasons and leave themselves wide open to attack.