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RESET YOUR PASSWORD: Anonymous hacks Gawker; exposes passwords and email addys
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Gawker data exposed in major hack attack
By Laurie Segall, CNNMoney staff reporter December 13, 2010: 3:42 PM ET
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Popular news and gossip blog network Gawker fell victim this weekend to hackers: Over 1 million usernames and passwords were exposed by a group of hackers who posted a 500 MB file of the private data on a file-sharing site.
The breach exposed users' passwords and e-mails, as well as Gawker's source code and conversations between staff members.
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A couple of things to note here: Because many people use the same password and login at many sites, this one was brought to my attention by willravel. My action to this is just like I did when we were subject to an XSS exploit earlier this year, I have required everyone to reset their passwords again. I'm sorry for the inconvenience, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. |
So those of you who find Anonymous fun, enjoyable exploits etc. with their attacks on the Church of Scientology and Wikileaks opponents, how do you feel about something like this? What if they took out their attacks on TFP? Would you still find it amusing?
It think there is a big difference between white and black hat hackers. In the old days the white hats were few and far between. Today, there are lots of them but they are still outnumbered by the black hats. I have never thought of Anonymous as being white hatted.
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I don't care if you are black, white, purple, green, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, hippie, cop, bum, admin, user, English, Irish, French, Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim, indian, cowboy, tall, short, fat, skinny, emo, punk, mod, rocker, straight, gay, lesbian, jock, nerd, geek, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, Independent, driver, pedestrian, or bicyclist, either you're an asshole or you're not.
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