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Title    43+ Million Users Affected by Confirmed Weebly Breach
Date    Saturday October 22 2016, @02:57AM
Author    janrinok
Topic   
from the "when-will-they-ever-learn..." dept.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/10/21/1453227

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Weebly, a popular web-hosting service featuring a drag-and-drop website builder, has been breached, and email addresses/usernames, IP addresses and encrypted passwords for some 43 million users have been stolen.

Unfortunately, the company did not notice the breach when it happened, around February 2016. They were notified of it once LeakedSource got its hands on the stolen data.

"Unlike nearly every other hack, the co-founder and CTO of Weebly Chris Fanini fortunately did not have his head burried [sic] deeply in the sand and actually responded to our communication requests. We have been working with them to ensure the security of their users meaning password resets as well as notification emails are now being sent out," the group noted.

Weebly also published a security update on the site, explaining what they did once they were made aware of the breach:

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2016/10/21/weebly-breach-confirmed/


Original Submission

Links

  1. "MrPlow" - https://soylentnews.org/~MrPlow/
  2. "LeakedSource" - https://www.leakedsource.com/blog/weebly/
  3. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=16516

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