When visiting the "non official" forums, espcially with these "official" forums closing, be sure to choose a different password. Depending on the forum software and the ethics / scruples of the owner of the forum, your password can and will be seen.
I would guess the latest round of password theft is probably due to all the wonderful new forums popping up out there. Please people. Give SL a different password from everything else?
I had at least one friend get zapped, and quite a few stories along this nature have been posted.