This is is a season for hacker attacks
Dec. 13th, 2010 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ellestraYesterday all the sites of Gawker Media started showing warnings about hacker attack on their servers that led to stealing passwords to the users commenting accounts. They are asking people to change their passwords on their and any other site they use same password (especially if they use the same username). The passwords were coded but now that the hackers have them they can work on them till they can decode it so it's better to be safe and change it. Good I don't use that password for anything important.
I also just got an email from deviantArt that the servers of Silverpop Systems, Inc., a company that dA used were hacked. This resulted in email addresses belonging to deviantART members and possibly also corresponding usernames and birth date being removed. LUckily it wasn't dA servers that got hacked so at least all other data profile is safe. But now all the millions dA users are bracing themselves for spam overflow. This can actually be worse then Gawker as I used a good a email for this.
I also just got an email from deviantArt that the servers of Silverpop Systems, Inc., a company that dA used were hacked. This resulted in email addresses belonging to deviantART members and possibly also corresponding usernames and birth date being removed. LUckily it wasn't dA servers that got hacked so at least all other data profile is safe. But now all the millions dA users are bracing themselves for spam overflow. This can actually be worse then Gawker as I used a good a email for this.
