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Name.com Resets All Passwords Following Security Breach

Posted by timothy on from the hope-the-email-went-to-the-right-place dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Internet registrar Name.com on Wednesday revealed it was hit by a security breach. The company sent an email to its customers informing them that their usernames, email addresses, passwords, and credit card account information "may have been accessed by unauthorized individuals.""

2 of 35 comments (clear)

  1. Also affects domainsite.com customers by pfraser · · Score: 5, Informative

    Domainsite.com (owned by name.com) were also affected and notified their customers accordingly this morning.

  2. Related to the Linode hack by Necroman · · Score: 3, Informative

    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667391

    In the above HN comment, basically it explains the linode hack, saying they got access to linodes registrar and were going to use it to steal passwords from linode customers. But they ended up finding the Coldfusion hole made it possible to break directly into linode, so they used that instead.

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