Misogynist Hackers Allegedly Leaked Addresses From Motherhood Website

A hacking group going by the Twitter name @DadSecurity appears to have posted personal information of members of Mumsnet.com's parenting forum. 

A number of fake messages already have been published under users' names. All of the site's 7.7 million users will be required to change their passwords.

DadSecurity claims to have posted the passwords of 3,000 Mumsnet users online. The hacktivists, who seem to be pushing a misogynist agenda, also tweeted “RIP Mumsnet."

Mumsnet has been scorned by some fathers’ groups that claim the site pursues an “anti-male agenda." But one of the site's biggest critics, Fathers4Justice, condemned the web assault and claimed to have no connection to the hackers. 

When the Twitter account @DadSecurity was terminated, the group returned under the name DadSec and announced that it had published 3,000 Mumsnet members’ passwords. 

“This was only possible because one of our members is a mod (moderator) of Mumsnet. This member would like to remain anonymous,” the group said, promising that the original incident “was only the start.” 

The attackers could have stolen member information through phishing emails, according to International Business Times.  It is also possible they used “cross site scripting” (XSS), in which code would have been added to Mumsnet's site that redirected login information users typed to computers controlled by the attackers.