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Kickstarter Hacked

posted by Cactus on Sunday February 16 2014, @03:36AM   Printer-friendly
from the hackers-want-crowdfunding-too dept.
stderr writes:

According to a recent announcement, the crowdfunding site Kickstarter has been hacked. Kickstarter states that there was no credit card information stolen and that all unauthorized activity has been limited to only two accounts.

While the passwords are all salted and encrypted (either using SHA-1 or bcrypt), a weak password might still be hacked. Users are strongly advised to change their passwords on Kickstarter and any other site where they use the same passwords.

Further information can be found at the Kickstarter blog.

 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Sunday February 16 2014, @03:39AM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Sunday February 16 2014, @03:39AM (#194) Homepage Journal
    Anyone hacking type who wasn't trying to hit kickstarter is a damned moron. One good dump from their records would be better than the Target hack ever thought of being.
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  • (Score: -1) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2014, @06:54AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 16 2014, @06:54AM (#215)
    This is a test post, but I agree. Go for where the disposable income is >$^)