PSA: Gawker Media web properties hack - change your passwords

[abaez]

If you have ever signed up/commented at Lifehacker, Gizmodo, Gawker, Jezebel, io9, Jalopnik, Kotaku, Deadspin, and Fleshbot change your pass cause it's been hacked. Hopefully you didn't use the same password anywhere else.

http://thenextweb.com/media/2010/12...le-with-ftp-author-reader-usernamespasswords/

http://lifehacker.com/5712785/faq-compromised-commenting-accounts-on-gawker-media

 

[Patranus]

I find this story laughable.

Gawker acted like an arrogant douche regarding the entire iPhone 4 story. They had no problem publishing stolen content.

Now they are getting their panties in a bunch over the release of their stolen CMS code.

Karma is a bitch.

 

[GodlessAstronomer]

I find this story laughable.

I don't find it particularly amusing. My username and password were among those hacked. I use that password as my general low-security password so now I have to go and change my password on every forum, blog and news site I use, which is a hassle. It's their entire network, so if you have logged into ANY Gawker site you are exposed. Here is the list of exposed websites:

Gawker.com
Gizmodo
Kotaku
Jalopnik
Lifehacker
Deadspin
Jezebel
io9
Fleshbot
Gawker.tv
Cityfile
Valleywag
Gawker Artists
Defamer
Sploid
Defamer Australia
Gizmodo Australia
Kotaku Australia
Lifehacker Australia

The only Gawker sites I have used are Gizmodo and Lifehacker. I stopped visiting Gizmodo long ago and I am now removing Lifehacker from my feed. This is shameful.

 

[brainhulk]

damn! i only go to fleshbot

oh wait I never signed up

 

[0roo0roo]

commenting on their link bait articles is pointless, so it doesn't matter.

 

[Alyx]

Damn it sucks going to so many sites to change passwords. Only 7 or 8 used the same password as gawker and none important. But this is a good time to go an make them all unique that can be.

 

[sygyzy]

I find this story laughable.

Gawker acted like an arrogant douche regarding the entire iPhone 4 story. They had no problem publishing stolen content.

Now they are getting their panties in a bunch over the release of their stolen CMS code.

Karma is a bitch.

What you are saying doesn't make sense. You are saying that it's ironic they published stolen content but now they have "their panties in a bunch" over the release of their stolen CMS code?

You know that's not the case here. It's not the fact that their CMS is stolen; it's what was compromised - user security/passwords/identity. How would you expect Gawker to act that would make them not "douches"? To say "Aw cool, thanks Gnosis. Well played. Good luck everyone.

I can appreciate pointing out that they deserved it but I really can't get behind the whole panties in a bunch thing. You are making it seem like this is such a minor issue and they are somehow overreacting, when instead it's the complete opposite.

 

[coxmaster]

Apparently this made a pretty big impact on the internet community..

Sites like LinkedIn and Blizzard are forcing users to reset passwords because they felt the breach was that significant.

Fortunately my Gawker account uses a totally random (LastPass generated) password.