Gawker Media Breach of Security

Published: 2010-12-13
Last Updated: 2010-12-13 14:58:03 UTC
by Deborah Hale (Version: 1)
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We were notified by a reader today of a Breach of Security at Gawker Media.   Gawker Media sites include Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot.

If you are a Gawker Media user you will want to take a look at the information provided at http://lifehacker.com/5712785/.

Deb Hale Long Lines, LLC

Keywords: Gawker compromised passwords
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Someone has posted a CSV on Google of the email domains and hashed email addresses at http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662 . They have instructions to MD5 your own email address and to search the file for them so you can tell if you're among the released compromised accounts. Of course, you could be compromised but not released…

mmosbey

Dec 13th 2010
1 decade ago

Don;t just change your password *there*.. Change your passwords EVERYWHERE that you use the same usersname and/or password.
ISC handlers know better, but so many of us out here in User-Land (even experienced ones) re-use passwords and/or useernames. *Blush*
They now have the User/Pass to some of the *OTHER* sites you use.
Now please excuse me while i go, umm, "change" a few things...

roseman

Dec 13th 2010
1 decade ago

Crap. I better go change my Fleshbot--I mean Gawker and io9 passwords.

Jason

Dec 13th 2010
1 decade ago

I got a copy of the files from The Pirate Bay last night. I figured I'd look to see if I was in the mess. I wasn't in the parsed_db.txt, but was in the full_db.txt.

Password they had hashed for me was from before November 8th 2010. I changed my password that day, because I had lost it.

chrisj

Dec 13th 2010
1 decade ago

What roseman said. Ahem...

LarryK

Dec 14th 2010
1 decade ago

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