Ars Technica Asks Readers to Change Password Following Security Breach

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Due to the recent hack on the website, Ars Technica “strongly encourages all Ars readers — especially any who have reused their Ars passwords on other, more sensitive sites — to change their passwords today.”

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Ars Technica was hacked: Please change your password

You are receiving this email because you may have – at some point – registered as a user on ArsTechnica.com. Our site was recently hacked.

Log files suggest that this intruder had the opportunity to copy the user database. This database contains no payment information on Ars subscribers, but it does contain user e-mail addresses cryptographically-protected passwords.

Out of an excess of caution, we strongly encourage all Ars readers — especially any who have reused their Ars passwords on other, more sensitive sites — to change their passwords today.

Read more about the incident here: http://arstechnica.com/staff/2014/12/ars-was-briefly-hacked-yesterday-heres-what-we-know/

Please login to Ars and update your password or use the “Forgot your password” form to change your password.

Settings page: https://arstechnica.com/civis/ucp.php?i=profile&mode=reg_details

Forgot your password? https://arstechnica.com/civis/ucp.php?mode=sendpassword

We sincerely apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

– Ars

To paraphrase Al Bundy: “Hey! Come to think of it, I remember creating an account at Ars Technica.”

Someone in Ars Technica is a Bleach Fan.

It is pretty obvious that someone in Ars Technica is a Bleach fan. Well, either that or whoever it was happened to be using Bleach as example.

The article is about RockPlayer for Android platform.

About Bleach (Anime & Manga):

Bleach is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he obtains the powers of a Soul Reaper – a death personification similar to the Grim Reaper – from Rukia Kuchiki. His newfound powers force him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife.

About Android Mobile Platform:

Android is an operating system for mobile devices such as cellular phones, tablet computers and netbooks. Android is developed by Google and is based upon the Linux kernel and GNU software.

About RockPlayer:

RockPlayer is an embedded platform, high performance, almost all format video player. With optimized for mobile devices, and highly optimized core players FFmpeg decoder, RockPlayer Android platform has become the highest performance of the most extensive format support for video player.

About Ars Technica:

Just go to the site and see what they are if you didn’t know it already.

That is all.

Special shout out to the people of BA!