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It may have taken some drastic measures, but UKChatterbox have now made an announcement on the website and are enforcing password changes, as well as offering password/security advice that is very similar to what I gave previously in http://lethality.me.uk/2011/09/online-security/

The announcement which can be found at http://www.ukchatterbox.co.uk/article/170 reads as follows:

The UKChatterbox website has recently been the target of several attacks intended to disrupt services, and as part of an ongoing security update, all UKChatterbox users are being asked to change their passwords as a precautionary measure.

Some general tips for passwords and security:

- If you have the password to other sites and services set the same as your UKChatterbox password (or have done in the past), we would recommend changing those passwords too. It is never really a good idea to use the same password for multiple sites. In particular, passwords to your e-mail and bank accounts should always be unique and not used elsewhere.

- Choose a password that is sufficiently complex. Make sure that it is at the very least 8 characters long, a mixture of letters and numbers and preferably mix in some capital letters too.

- Check your security questions for your e-mail and other sites. If a site you are signed up to operates a security question system to retrieve lost passwords, make sure that the answer to the question is not something anyone could answer but you. There have been a lot of issues recently with peoples’ e-mail accounts being accessed because the answer to their security question was on their Facebook profile.

Thank you for your cooperation.

UKChatterbox

Hopefully they can carry on improving the site for the future.