The Spread Firefox organization's webpage was hacked over the weekend, Mozilla staff member Asa Dotzler posted in a release on the website. The attack, which shut down the spreadfirefox.com website for several days over the weekend, appeared to be an attack to send out spam. Although personal information could have been compromised, it appears that it did not happen.

"It appears that a part of Spread Firefox was hacked in an attempt to use it to send out spam," wrote Firefox developer Asa Dotzler in a Friday blog posting. "It doesn't look like the attacker accessed any personal data on the site, but to be safe, we're encouraging all of our users to log in and change their passwords." [co-published with GeekCoffee]