Gawker Media passwords hacked

[damage]

in case any of you have a login on a gawker media site and use the same login & password at other sites, it may be a good idea to change them http://goo.gl/IKDCh

slate.com has a page that checks if your email address has a password that was released http://goo.gl/5QsFf

 

[wuench]

in case any of you have a login on a gawker media site and use the same login & password at other sites, it may be a good idea to change them http://goo.gl/IKDCh

slate.com has a page that checks if your email address has a password that was released http://goo.gl/5QsFf

I downloaded the torrent from TPB and it looks to me like they only decrypted the easy passwords and focused their time on cracking the passwords of the owners of the website. Basically it is a list of email addresses and hashes and a separate much smaller file with decrypted passwords. Unless you p*ssed off Anonymous, or you have a weak password you may be ok. BTW the readme is pretty comical, it looks like one of the editors from one of the Gawker sites called out the hackers in one of their articles and dared them to come after them.....not really the brightest guy, apparently.

 

[electron]

In case you don't trust the Slate widget, here is access to the raw data via Google fusion tables (which lets you search):
http://www.google.com/fusiontables/DataSource?dsrcid=350662

 

[damage]

linkedin.com took the initiative to disable accounts associated with email addresses in the compromised gawker database http://goo.gl/reuNb