Editing DSLReports (section)

=== 2011 SQL Injection attack ===
Over a four-hour period on April 27, 2011, an automated [[SQL Injection]] attack occurred on the DSLReports website. The attack was able to extract 8% of the site's username/password pairs, which amounted to approximately 8,000 of the 9,000 active accounts and 90,000 old or inactive accounts created during the site's 10-year history.<ref name="Cnet News">{{cite news|url=http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20058471-245.html|title=DSLReports says member information stolen|publisher= Cnet News |date=April 28, 2011|access-date=April 29, 2011}}</ref><ref name="The Tech Herald">{{cite news|url=http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201117/7127/DSLReports-com-breach-exposed-more-than-100-000-accounts|title=DSLReports.com breach exposed more than 100,000 accounts|publisher=The Tech Herald|date=April 29, 2011|access-date=April 29, 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430234009/http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201117/7127/DSLReports-com-breach-exposed-more-than-100-000-accounts|archive-date=April 30, 2011}}</ref> Once the intrusion was detected, stopped and the extent of the compromised accounts had been assessed, passwords for those accounts were automatically reset.<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2011/04/29/dsl-reports-intrusion-compromises-over-9000-accounts/ | title = DSL Reports intrusion compromises over 9000 accounts | date= April 9, 2011 | access-date = February 3, 2017 | publisher = Helpnet Security | author = Zeljka Zorz }}</ref>