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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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @08:38PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 20 2019, @08:38PM (#845630)

    I don't ever bother to post questions or answers on SO b/c of all their goddamn rules. The app has all kinds of rules before the mods ever start interfering. Fuck their authoritarian wet dream of a site.

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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @12:50AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 21 2019, @12:50AM (#845683)

    StackExchange, Wikipedia, SoylentNews...
    All forum based websites have this in common: a smallish number of people have not much else in their lives but they are kings and queens on this ONE site. It's theirs! They stay on the site all day and just drown out anyone else. It's theirs, and they let you know it.