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posted by takyon on Sunday August 28 2016, @10:22PM   Printer-friendly
from the hacker-sync dept.

The security blog of Opera browser has an interesting short write-up about a security breach that happened to them:

Earlier this week, we detected signs of an attack where access was gained to the Opera sync system. This attack was quickly blocked. Our investigations are ongoing, but we believe some data, including some of our sync users' passwords and account information, such as login names, may have been compromised.

[...] The total active number of users of Opera sync in the last month is 1.7 million, less than 0.5% of the total Opera user base of 350 million people.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @10:45PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @10:45PM (#394341)

    Make sure it's a sturdy basket! It wasn't a sturdy basket? Oh no. How could this happen.

    • (Score: 1) by driven on Monday August 29 2016, @03:15AM

      by driven (6295) on Monday August 29 2016, @03:15AM (#394422)

      Why are the user details stored unencrypted in the first place? Talk about painting a target on yourself.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:23PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:23PM (#394348)

    Somebody cares!

  • (Score: 2) by goody on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:24PM

    by goody (2135) on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:24PM (#394349)

    350 million people use Opera? That just doesn't sound right. That number must be off a decimal place or six...

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:33PM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:33PM (#394354) Journal

      That's before you carve away the bots and user agent switchers. However, Opera Mobile [wikipedia.org] and Opera Mini [wikipedia.org] have been around since 2000 and 2005, and Opera was also used as the browser on Nintendo DS and Wii (not the 3DS or Wii U). Fudge some numbers and it can't be too hard to hit 350 million.

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    • (Score: 2) by Celestial on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:33PM

      by Celestial (4891) on Sunday August 28 2016, @11:33PM (#394355) Journal

      If it takes into account the multiple installations of Android and iOS versions, that may help explain the figure. It makes for a decent Android browser, with the built-in ad blocking.

  • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Monday August 29 2016, @12:27AM

    by ilPapa (2366) on Monday August 29 2016, @12:27AM (#394370) Journal

    Will someone please tell my why "sync" is in quotation marks in the headline of this story?

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    • (Score: 2) by ticho on Monday August 29 2016, @12:28AM

      by ticho (89) on Monday August 29 2016, @12:28AM (#394372) Homepage Journal

      It wasn't there in my original submission. But does it really matter? :)

      • (Score: 2) by ilPapa on Monday August 29 2016, @03:27AM

        by ilPapa (2366) on Monday August 29 2016, @03:27AM (#394429) Journal

        It wasn't there in my original submission. But does it really matter? :)

        Only if you're a native English-speaker.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @02:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday August 29 2016, @02:10AM (#394393)

      I would assume to identify Sync as a feature/service of Opera and not the action (as in 'to sync'). Without the quotes, but with standard headline capitalization, it could easily be confused with "sync affected" (which would have a very different meaning).

    • (Score: 2) by takyon on Monday August 29 2016, @02:22AM

      by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday August 29 2016, @02:22AM (#394403) Journal

      Read the summary, mi papa.

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