It has been confirmed that the official Ubuntu Forums have been hacked. At the moment there are not many details but what is confirmed is that the hackers have been successful in their attempts to gain access and they have managed to get every users username, password and email address.

For the time being the Ubuntu Forums have been taken down and have been replaced with a simple splash page with the latest information on what is happening.

According to latest news, hackers have gotten every user’s username, password (NOT stored in plain text) and email address from Ubuntu Forum’s database. It is advised that if you use the same password on similar service (such as email), you better change the password as a precautionary message. Canonical has assured that other Canonical services such as Launchpad and Ubuntu One accounts are safe.