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Gawker Source Code and Databases Compromised
An anonymous reader writes "Passwords and personal data for 1.3 million Gawker Media readers — this includes readers of sites like Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku, and io9 — have been released as a BitTorrent by a group of hackers called Gnosis, who also managed to gain access to both the Gawker CMS and Gizmodo's Twitter account. Gawker confirms and urges readers to change their passwords: 'Our user databases do indeed appear to have been compromised. The passwords were encrypted. But simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack. You should change the password on Gawker (GED/commenting system) and on any other sites on which you've used the same passwords. Out of an abundance of caution, you should also change your company email password and any passwords that may have appeared in your email messages. We're deeply embarrassed by this breach. We should not be in the position of relying on the goodwill of the hackers who identified the weakness in our systems.'"
... on their iPhone 4, which for some reason they appear to have left at the bar...
...and instead use Facebook to protect my privacy. Wait, why are you laughing?
We considered what action we would take, and decided that the Gawkmedia “empire” needs to be brought down a peg or two.
This is the major problem with the internet - we let children on it.
Really kids? Go play somewhere else and let the adults have peace and quiet. You don't need to piss on everything just to prove you're alive. The smell of your unwashed armpits is already ample demonstration.
They probably did. It's a press release, and a one-way cryptographic hash is close enough to "encrypted" and a helluva lot shorter and more understandable to a non-pedantic audience.
At least they didn't say "scrambled".
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. - Einstein
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Actually, this makes me think this "Gnosis" group might have done us a favor by releasing the names of Gawker readers.
If aliens should attack the Earth looking to harvest DNA, we now have a list of people that won't be missed.
You are welcome on my lawn.