Slack hacked, compromising users' profile data

ronjor · Mar 27, 2015

After suffering a hack last month, the company has added two-factor authentication

Zach Miners By Zach Miners
IDG News Service | Mar 27, 2015
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/2902404/hacking/slack-hacked-compromising-users-profile-data.html

ronjor · Mar 27, 2015

Slack Gets Hacked as Start-Up Technologies Become Targets
By Nicole Perlroth
March 27, 2015 3:01 pm

On Friday, Slack, the communications start-up, said it had been breached by hackers. That made it the second young company to step forward this week — following Twitch, the hugely popular video streaming service — and disclose it was hacked.
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http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/slack-gets-hacked-as-start-up-technologies-become-targets/

guest · Jul 18, 2019

Slack resets user passwords after 2015 data breach
July 18, 2019
https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/18/slack-password-breach/

Slack will reset the passwords of users it believes are affected by a historical data breach that affected the company more than four years ago.

In 2015, the company said it was hit by hackers who gained access to its user profile database, including their scrambled passwords. But the hackers inserted code that scraped the user’s plaintext password as it was entered by users at the time.
Slack said it was recently contacted through its bug bounty about a list of allegedly compromised Slack account passwords. The company believes the case may relate to the 2015 data breach incident.

Slack said the security incident does not apply to “the approximately 99% who joined Slack after March 2015” or those who changed their password since.
The company also said it has no reason to believe accounts were compromised but provided no evidence for its claim.
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