Volunteer-run pirate Manga website attacked, loses hashed passwords, has ‘nobody’ to fix the mess

2021-04-26 02:28

A "Scanlation" website for Manga has admitted that its members credentials have been stolen and are now being shared online.

The site went offline a few days after achieving that rating, after admitting it had been compromised and telling users that continuing operations was not wise until it could perform an upgrade.

The site was already in trouble over copyright because its core service is hosting scanned Manga that volunteers translate into different languages, which rather diminished publishers' chances of securing distribution in nations outside Japan.

An email to members seen by The Register says that as of April 22, the dot-org's operators "Have identified that a partial database leak" of members' information has been detected.

The March security breach notice warned that restoring the website will be slow, because "Maintaining MangaDex is nobody's actual job." An April 6 update detailed work on a new version of the site based on a revised architecture and new code.

The most recent update and email offer no time frame for restoration of the site.

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