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Stack Overflow Hacker Undetected for a Week

posted by Fnord666 on Monday May 20 2019, @12:23PM   Printer-friendly
from the I'm-in-your-base dept.

Chocolate writes:

A hacker may have accessed Stack Overflow user data for over a week in a hack that went undetected for an extended period of time. The Stack Overflow breach in May 2019 was described as a 'severe breach' of its production systems which may have exposed data including IP address, names, or emails for a small number of users by a user who managed to grant themselves privileged access. Affected users, which may number around 250, will be contacted by Stack Overflow to alert them of the breach. The company announced the breach on its blog as soon as they became aware of the issue.

[Ed Note - Stack Overflow originally stated that there was no evidence of the hacker accessing user data. They revised that statement on Friday.]

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @01:42PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @01:42PM (#845503)

    Moral of the story is that you use SO for searching for answers, not for posting questions.

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  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday May 21 2019, @11:52AM

    by VLM (445) on Tuesday May 21 2019, @11:52AM (#845769)

    The problem is, google searches (heck, manpages...) do a faster better job in the very narrow context of acceptable discussion topics.

    I'm not asking for open climate change political debates in a forum suitable for Samba server configuration discussion; but they need to be more open minded than a forum dedicated to "let me Fing google this for you" class of questions.

    Or not; stack overflow is not very popular in the category of something worldwide and open and free. I find it fascinating that my local public library would require only 25 years of annual visits to host all of S.O. registered users. Admittedly SO is only a decade old, but also keep in mind my local suburban public library is not exactly The Library Of Congress or similar famousness.