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December 17, 2014

Ars Technica Asks Readers to Change Password Following Security Breach

Ars Technica

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.”

Full Email:

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.”

May 21, 2014

eBay Asks Users to Change Passwords due to Security Breach

From eBay:

Earlier today eBay Inc. announced it is aware of unauthorized access to eBay systems that may have exposed some customer information. There is no evidence that financial data was compromised and there is no evidence that PayPal or our customers have been affected by the unauthorized access to eBay systems. We are working with law enforcement and leading security experts to aggressively investigate the matter.

As a precaution, we will be asking all eBay users (both buyers and sellers) to change their passwords later today. As a global marketplace, nothing is more important to eBay than the security and trust of our customers. We regret any inconvenience or concern that this situation may cause you. We know our customers and partners have high expectations of us, and we are committed to ensuring a safe and secure online experience for you on any connected device.

Click here for updates and additional information.

Ebay is asking its users to reset their passwords due to the unauthorized access to our corporate information network. This may result in a delay of service due to the high traffic volume. We ask for your patience and that you return to eBay soon. In the meantime, please be assured that no activity can occur on your account until your password is reset.

You may also visit Customer Service

eBay Hacked

I really think that we have become desensitized by this kind of security breach. Nevertheless, I have changed my eBay password. As a matter of fact I did not even remember what my password was; I had to request a password reset. The last time I bought anything from eBay was about 9 years ago; and it was from a verified and known seller.

March 2, 2013

Evernote resets user passwords after a hack attack

The Evernote team has been sending out emails to users regarding the hack attack. The Evernote also initiate a service-wide password reset.

Evernote’s Operations & Security team has discovered and blocked suspicious activity on the Evernote network that appears to have been a coordinated attempt to access secure areas of the Evernote Service.

As a precaution to protect your data, we have decided to implement a password reset. Please read below for details and instructions.In our security investigation, we have found no evidence that any of the content you store in Evernote was accessed, changed or lost. We also have no evidence that any payment information for Evernote Premium or Evernote Business customers was accessed.

The investigation has shown, however, that the individual(s) responsible were able to gain access to Evernote user information, which includes usernames, email addresses associated with Evernote accounts and encrypted passwords. Even though this information was accessed, the passwords stored by Evernote are protected by one-way encryption. (In technical terms, they are hashed and salted.)

February 21, 2013

Zendesk were hacked

Most people had no idea who or what Zendesk are, but they should. Zendesk provides customer service portals to companies such as Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter. Zendesk revealed in their blog that they’ve been hacked.

Pinterest, Tumblr and Twitter have been sending notices to their affected users regarding the security breach.

From Tumblr support:

Important information regarding your security and privacy

For the last 2.5 years, we’ve used a popular service called Zendesk to store, organize, and answer emails to Tumblr Support. We’ve learned that a security breach at Zendesk has affected Tumblr and two other companies. We are sending this notification to all email addresses that we believe may have been affected by this breach.

This has potentially exposed records of subject lines and, in some cases, email addresses of messages sent to Tumblr Support. While much of this information is innocuous, please take some time today to consider the following:

The subject lines of your emails to Tumblr Support may have included the address of your blog which could potentially allow your blog to be unwillingly associated with your email address.

Any other information included in the subject lines of emails you’ve sent to Tumblr Support may be exposed. We recommend you review any correspondence you’ve addressed to support@tumblr.com, abuse@tumblr.com, dmca@tumblr.com, legal@tumblr.com, enquiries@tumblr.com, or lawenforcement@tumblr.com.

Tumblr will never ask you for your password by email. Emails are easy to fake, and you should be suspicious of unexpected emails you receive.

Your safety is our highest priority. We’re working with law enforcement and Zendesk to better understand this attack. Please monitor your email and Tumblr accounts for suspicious behavior, and notify us immediately if you have any concerns.

February 17, 2013

Greg Hetson’s Twitter account got hacked

UPDATE:
Greg Hetson confirmed that his Twitter account was hacked. Yet he did not even bother to delete the spam tweet. Probably Hetson doesn’t know how to delete a tweet.

It seems that Greg Hetson’s Twitter account got hacked on Sunday morning February 17, 2013. It is yet known how Hetson’s Twitter account got hacked. Hetson often posts tweets using his HTC Android phone.

For those who know who Greg Hetson is, he never needed to lose any body fat; in fact he needed to gain some.
For those who don’t know who Greg Hetson is, go look up Bad Religion and Circle Jerks.

Speaking of Bad Religion, go get their latest release: True North

July 4, 2011

Fox News’ Twitter Got Hacked.

UPDATE:
Fox News acknowledges that their Twitter account was hacked.

Conspiracy theorist might call this one as plausible deniability.

From The Next Web:

Fox has found it has been made the target of a hacking campaign once again after attackers managed to compromise the Fox News Politics Twitter account and used it to spread misinformation that the president had been shot and killed.

We managed to get a screen grab of the twitter account:

January 6, 2009

MacRumorsLive.com was Hacked During Live Keynote Coverage

UPDATES:
MacRumors: “MacRumorsLive Hacked”

Tuesday January 06, 2009 01:29 PM EST
Written by arn
Our MacRumorsLive keynote coverage was hacked today, inserting inappropriate content into the text and photo feeds. We apologize for the inconvenience and are working to restore our services. The hack appears to be limited to the MacRumorsLive servers so forum accounts should be safe.

We’ll continue Macworld Expo coverage on an ongoing basis this week, and will report on Apple’s announcements shortly.

Reddit shows how MacRumorsLive got hacked.

m.atthew.net has made a statement: “I did not hack macrumors”

Another (long) Screenshot (found through Digg)

During Phil Schiller’s MacWorld San Francisco 2009, MacRumorsLive.com was hacked. MacRumors shut down the page minutes after. A line that said “Steve Jobs just died” was inserted into the feed. One message also carried 4CHAN.ORG badge.

Check the screenshot out.