If you go to Gawker/Gizmodo/Kotaku, change your password [Archive]

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ChrisGlass

Dec 13th, 2010, 06:18 AM

Gawker's main DB got hacked. All of their blogs had ALL accounts usernames and emails exposed, along with the password hash.

IF you had a simple password, chances are it got decrypted, too.

This includes:
Gizmodo
Lifehacker
Gawker
Kotaku
and any other site in that network. I can check for you if you want to see if you are safe. (PM your username or email to check)

Mockery

Dec 13th, 2010, 01:52 PM

Can't say I've ever made an account on any site in that network... and now, that's apparently a good thing. Thanks for letting people know, Chris.

Evil Robot

Dec 13th, 2010, 08:35 PM

You should go back to 4chan

replicant

Dec 14th, 2010, 02:05 AM

Craptastic. I have a login at io9. Frak crackers!

Zhukov

Dec 14th, 2010, 04:06 AM

I think I had an account on Kotaku... but it was a long time ago and I can't remember the password or anything like that. If I can't remember it then I'm pretty confident that some hacker wont know it either.