If you downloaded Linux Mint on Saturday, February 20th, you may have unknowingly downloaded a hacked version of the operating system. According to a blog post on the Linux Mint site, hackers broke ...

Lefebvre wrote on Sunday, "Hackers made a modified Linux Mint ISO, with a backdoor in it, and managed to hack our website to point to it." Specifically, the hacker, whom we now know goes by Peace, ...

“I’m sorry I have to come with bad news,” wrote Clement Lefebvre, head of the Linux Mint project, before announcing Linux Mint suffered an intrusion; on February 20, “hackers made a modified Linux ...

The latest version of Linux Mint Debian Edition has begun propagating on official mirrors. The Linux Mint project has not announced the update yet but is expected to in the coming days. At the time of ...

Don't normally post here, so apologies if this is the wrong place or it's already been posted elsewhere. Apparently linuxmint.com has been hacked and any ISOs of Mint 17.3 Cinnamon directly downloaded ...

In my recent post about the handling of the security incident and compromised ISO image at Linux Mint, I said at the end that users should always verify the checksum of a downloaded image before ...

Linux Mint hack: Anyone who installed the software on 20 February at risk flickr/ghostcero The website distributing popular open-source operating system Linux Mint has been compromised by an unknown ...

The Linux Mint website was hacked over the weekend and the regular ISO of the latest distribution of the popular operating system replaced by a version that contained a backdoor. The attack happened ...