Gawker Media hacked, firm warns users to change passwords

JRViejo · Dec 13, 2010

E-mail addresses and password details for 200,000 registered users of Gawker Media websites are now circulating on peer-to-peer networks after a weekend hack attack. The company warned users to change their passwords -- including on other sites, if they use the same passwords elsewhere.

The websites affected include Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin and Fleshbot. Users are required to register, providing their e-mail address and a password, in order to leave comments on those websites.
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Computerworld Article by Jeremy Kirk.

JRViejo · Dec 13, 2010

Passwords used by people employed by U.S. federal, state and local governments were among those disclosed by the Gawker hack over the weekend, according to a report by PBS NewsHour on Monday.

If the passwords published online by the Gnosis hacker group were also used by those people for their work e-mail accounts, the passwords could be used in future targeted attacks against government employees to plant malware or steal other information.

PBS NewsHour has identified a subset of the 1.3 million accounts accessed in the Gawker hack that included an unknown number of accounts with the .gov domain, including ones from the Department of Defense, NASA, National Institute of Health and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service.

Employees at agencies in several states, ranging from Idaho to Virginia, were also among those whose addresses and passwords were harvested.
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Hackers could use leaked Gawker info to attack government workers by Gregg Keizer.

JRViejo · Dec 13, 2010

A security researcher today provided a way for users to see whether their e-mail addresses and passwords were among the 1.3 million compromised in a hack of Gawker Media's sites.

HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 and the creator of the open-source Metasploit penetration-testing toolkit, came up with a down-and-dirty way for users to search the list of purloined account information without having to download the massive 487MB file from the Internet.
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How to check if your password was exposed in Gawker hack by Gregg Keizer.

ronjor · Dec 14, 2010

The Top 50 Gawker Media Passwords

By Zachary M. Seward and Albert Sun

Readers of Gizmodo, Lifehacker and other Gawker Media sites may be among the savviest on the Web, but the most common password for logging into those sites is embarrassingly easy to guess: “123456.” So is the runner-up: “password.”
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http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2010/12/13/the-top-50-gawker-media-passwords/

MrBrian · Dec 14, 2010

The Real Lessons Of Gawker’s Security Mess

JRViejo · Dec 20, 2010

Memo: ‘Gawker tech team didn’t adequately secure our platform’

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