Change your password immediately as well as any other accounts with the same or similar passwords. Another lesson in password reuse will undoubtably trickle down over the next few days and weeks. At least the passwords weren’t stored in the clear, though I don’t think they were salted. when will we learn?
Tag: hacked
anonops.net Hacked! Users Unmasked!
yesterday, anonymous’s irc server was hacked and user’s ip addresses and private messages were posted here. Looking at the logs, it is clear to me that many of their users use proxies, VPNs, or some other way to obscure their actual address. It is doubtful that any serious hacktivists were actually unmasked. With rumors of an internal conflict within anonymous ablaze online, it is still unclear who was responsible or when their operations will be back online.
UPDATE:
here was https://sites.google.com/site/lolanonopsdead/ and it’s since offline.
Gawker fiasco and what we’ve learned about password reuse.
Gawker Media (Lifehacker, Gizmodo, etc.) was hacked by a group calling themselves #gnosis and their entire user database (as well as source code for the sites) was posted to a popular torrent site. Downloaded already no doubt by hundreds or even thousands of would be nar do wells. What does this mean? what can we learn? More then 50,000 users used “password” for their password. Read the oficial statement here. I did enjoy the irony of Facebook connect users being safe from this. If you had an account on any of these sites, your information is compromised and i prey you don’t reuse your password. Change it, change it fast. Millions of user’s Data was exposed (names, emails, passwords). The ramifications of this breach will continue over the next few weeks as users accounts on other services begin to wreak havoc.
here is a humerious comic about password reuse:
http://xkcd.com/792/