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Users of Gawker Media (Gizmodo, i09, Lifehacker, Kotaku) have passwords made public
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If you registered with any Gawker Media website:
Gawker.com, Fleshbot, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Gawker.tv, and Cityfile
You need to change your password now.
The Gawker database with user account and password details have been made public by hackers. If you used the same password for any other Internet service - especially for internet banking or shopping change those passwords immediately.
Further info:
PBS - Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies
TheTechHerald - Attackers exposed 1.3 million accounts in Gawker breach
Register - Gawker rooted by anonymous hackers
Gawker.com, Fleshbot, Deadspin, Lifehacker, Gizmodo, io9, Kotaku, Jalopnik, Jezebel, Gawker.tv, and Cityfile
You need to change your password now.
The Gawker database with user account and password details have been made public by hackers. If you used the same password for any other Internet service - especially for internet banking or shopping change those passwords immediately.
Further info:
PBS - Gawker Data Breach Could Lead to Attacks on Government Agencies
TheTechHerald - Attackers exposed 1.3 million accounts in Gawker breach
Register - Gawker rooted by anonymous hackers
"The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else." -- Frederic Bastiat, 1848.
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