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The Gawker family of web sites have had their user database hacked.
If you have an account on any of them, you may have issues. If you re-use any combination of user id, e-mail address, and password, your life just got a little bit more irritatingly complex.
If you had an account on:
Gawker
Deadspin
Kotaku
Jezebel
io9
Jalopnik
Gizmodo
Lifehacker
Then you might have a problem.
Slate.com has a widget to check to see if your account is among the hacked. Link here.
For me personally--so far--somebody's tried (unsuccessfully) to hack into my Amazon and Google accounts, and I'm sure others are on the way.
So, give yourself a Christmas present. Change all your passwords. Make sure you've got a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, and throw a couple of numbers in there, too. At some point, some enterprising hacker will I'm sure work their way down the list here to SDSUfans.com.
Merry Christmas!
If you have an account on any of them, you may have issues. If you re-use any combination of user id, e-mail address, and password, your life just got a little bit more irritatingly complex.
If you had an account on:
Gawker
Deadspin
Kotaku
Jezebel
io9
Jalopnik
Gizmodo
Lifehacker
Then you might have a problem.
Slate.com has a widget to check to see if your account is among the hacked. Link here.
For me personally--so far--somebody's tried (unsuccessfully) to hack into my Amazon and Google accounts, and I'm sure others are on the way.
So, give yourself a Christmas present. Change all your passwords. Make sure you've got a combination of upper- and lower-case letters, and throw a couple of numbers in there, too. At some point, some enterprising hacker will I'm sure work their way down the list here to SDSUfans.com.
Merry Christmas!
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