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Dailymotion Hack Exposes Millions of Accounts (zdnet.com)

Posted by msmash on from the security-woes dept.

Millions of accounts associated with video sharing site Dailymotion, one of the biggest video platforms in the world, have been stolen. From a ZDNet report: A hacker extracted 85.2 million unique email addresses and usernames from the company's systems, but about one-in-five accounts -- roughly 18.3 million-- had associated passwords, which were scrambled with the bcrypt hashing function, making the passwords difficult to crack. The hack is believed to have been carried out on October 20 by a hacker, whose identity isn't known, according to LeakedSource, a breach notification service, which obtained the data. Dailymotion launched in 2005, and is currently the 113rd most visited website in the world, according to Alexa rankings.

23 comments

  1. Accountability? What's that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    And they'll be facing no legal liability for this as well, right?

    1. Re:Accountability? What's that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Legal liability for what? Who was harmed, how, and can they prove damages? At least the site was using bcrypt() instead of md5(), that puts them in a league above most.

  2. I must be out of touch by skids · · Score: 1

    and is currently the 113rd most visited website in the world, according to Alexa rankings.

    ...never heard of it.

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    Someone had to do it.
    1. Re:I must be out of touch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Cool story, grandpa.

    2. Re:I must be out of touch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Sometimes on search engies it appears after youtube results, but it required flash until a few months ago.

    3. Re:I must be out of touch by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Old and over-used retort, kiddo.

    4. Re:I must be out of touch by skids · · Score: 1

      Ah, that explains it. Flash-free here for years now.

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      Someone had to do it.
    5. Re: I must be out of touch by dishpig · · Score: 1

      1th I've heard of it too.

    6. Re:I must be out of touch by antdude · · Score: 1

      I have heard of it. It is just not popular as YouTube, Vimeo, etc.

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    7. Re:I must be out of touch by aonaran · · Score: 1

      Seems to be popular among the folks who used to use YouTube to stream TV shows. I think that YouTube is much more aggressive in taking down copyrighted content.

  3. just another reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Just another reason among many reasons not to have accounts on websites.

    1. Re:just another reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You kind of need an account to upload, but in general, I'm with you.

    2. Re:just another reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I'm not a milleniosexual, so I don't have a need to upload my entire life to the internet in video form. I'm good without an account.

    3. Re:just another reason by tepples · · Score: 1

      What do you plan to do when more sites start requiring an account just to watch, as Nico does?

    4. Re:just another reason by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      That's what bugmenot is for.

    5. Re:just another reason by tepples · · Score: 1

      That's easy for sites to work around by adding a date of birth field to the sign-up forum. From BugMeNot TOS: "You will not submit sites that have any form of age access verification (COPPA)."

  4. Popular in France by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    It was created by a French team. It's popular there. "Ca suçe." (that sucks?)

    1. Re:Popular in France by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The cedilla should be on "ça", not "suce".

      "Ça suce".

  5. From the 'whooops' department by sproketboy · · Score: 1

    ntr

  6. 113rd? by Scroatzilla · · Score: 1

    One hundred and thir-turd?

    1. Re:113rd? by Hattmannen · · Score: 1

      I believe it's pronounced "One hundred and one-ty third".

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    2. Re:113rd? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's "eleventy third".

  7. Why 1 in 5? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    As I understood it, the attacker would gain the whole password database, and therefore all of the hashes.

    How is it possible that they only got 1/5 of the hashes?