We just heard about a serious hacking incident that has occurred earlier this month on all Network54 hosted forums. This includes Missing-Lynx and HyperScale's Tank Talk forum. If you have used these forums and created an account on Network54 you need to check to see if your email and password were compromised.

The primary reason is that apparently Network54 committed what is essentially Internet malfeasance by storing user passwords in plain text (not encrypted as they should be), this means the hackers have your password AND email so if you use this combination on any other accounts online they may potentially be used to gain access to those sites/systems.

Here is a 3rd party password storage site that created a system for it's users to check to see if their email was one of the ones affected in the hacking attack.

https://lastpass.com/breach/network54/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=transactional&utm_campaign=lptxemail

And here is the original news story that LastPass issued about this incident: http://blog.lastpass.com/2013/05/network54-hacked-what-you-need-to-know.html