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Stories about: user database

Rootkit.com Compromise Poses Risks to Other Sites People who analyzed the recently leaked rootkit.com user database warn that the compromise also has implications for accounts on other sites due to password reuse. A week ago, the Anonymous collective hacked into the systems of a security firm called HBGary which threatened to expose its high-ranking members.The grou... 14 February 2011 03:48 GMT LinkedIn Forces Password Resets Following Gawker Leak LinkedIn has taken the preventive step of resetting passwords on accounts that shared email addresses with the ones compromised at Gawker Media a few days ago.The decision comes after the high-profile compromise, which resulted in a database of 1.3 million accounts being leaked, was directly linked to a mass spam att... 15 December 2010 02:54 GMT Gawker Accounts Database Analysis Reveals Poor Password Habits An analysis of the the leaked Gawker user database revealed that a lot of people are using incredibly easy passwords that are on the default wordlists of most cracking software.This past weekend, Gawker Media, the company operating some of the Internet's most popular blogs, including Gizmodo, Lifehacker, Kotaku ... 14 December 2010 09:57 GMT