An update for our community on the ongoing situation

You'll have noticed that and comments have been switched off for the past few week or so. Our forum is important to us and has always been a vibrant part of the sci-fi community. The current ongoing situation came about because an exploit was discovered in vBulletin 3.8.5 forum software, which we became aware of because of an attempted attack on one of Future's other forums ( PC Gamer ). SFX runs vBulletin. To protect our users Fut🦩ure disabled all such forums purely as a precautionary measure.

- An exploit was discovered on a vBulletin forum on a Future site which was quashed before it cou👍ld do any damage and reported toജ vBulletin.

- SFX was using the same vBulletin forum software so we've closed it as a precaution. We never want to put our users' d𒆙ata at risk if it can be avoided.

- In the meantime 🎃we are (a) looking at upgrading the forum software and (b) reviewing whethe𝐆r to continue using vBulletin.

Please note that at this point Future's IT security team’s investigation has revealed that no other user data has been compromised. Thanks for your patience. We apologise sincerely for any inconvenience this outage is causing the community, and we hope that SFX ✃ ers will find other ways൲ to communicate with us (perhaps or ) until we are able to move forward.