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⛔ You need to reset your password. This is most likely because...

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On Friday, November 15th at 5pm our devs were made aware that full user records in BCRYPT Hash Format were being outputted to browsers when users were quoted. Our team immediately deployed patches to fix this, reset passwords, and terminated sessions for all potentially affected users as a preventative measure. This was to ensure the security of your user accounts. A full incident report has been published on our status page here - https://status.vanillaforums.com/incidents/2zdqxf3bt7mj
This should have minimal impact on Polycount users. Your email addresses and passwords (in encrypted form) could have been leaked, if particular steps were taken, within a short time window. But your passwords are encrypted, difficult to break, you can read about BCRYPT here.
Ultimately, we don't think you should be worried. We're not a banking site, we're an art forum. There's no crazy personal or financial data here.
You may wish to take this opportunity to update your forum password; that's not required here, but it is a smart thing to do periodically with all your sites.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Muchly sorries. Not our fault, I swaer.

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