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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.

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  1. 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 skids · · Score: 1

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

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

      1th I've heard of it too.

    3. 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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    4. 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.

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

    ntr

  3. 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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      People are not wearing enough hats.
  4. 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?

  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)."