I gather the new security check is the preventive technique.
As much as I want to, I'm gonna decline sharing details.
LOL PM Wiz! He'll fill you in!
As near as we can tell, your data is safe. Fortunately (?) the masked bandit was far more interested in entertaining themselves. Even their 'pay me with some crypo' was half-hearted.
They just wanted to have an impact, put people in check, and have some 'fun'. Had they been financially motivated, we'd have not heard about the hack for a long time. They'd have stayed dormant for however long they needed to have some leverage.
From what I understand, even our email addresses were safe - thanks to a broken system! If they'd been able to scrape the database (which their access did not allow) then they'd be able to do things like perform a rainbow attack to recover passwords.
Again, that did not happen. Odds are that it will happen on another site, so be sure to use a unique password for every site - and not some sort of 'password system' you created in your head. That's just silly.
If I find your password for this site is Linux1967$n, I'm gonna try to access your gmail with Google1967$n.
I'm gonna drink more wine.