miercuri, 15 decembrie 2010

FBI Investigating Gawker.com Hack

Investigators from the FBI were due to foregather with Gawker Media CEO Nick Denton weekday mass the large weekend grapple by a assemble titled Gnosis that unfit the media company’s website and temporarily unnatural it to kibosh publishing.

Hackers had grabbed the passwords and e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 of the 1.3 meg qualified users of the snarky account place that dishes on the exclusive secrets and goings on in the media concern finished a difference of sites, including Gizmodo and Jezebel.

The sites were unnatural to kibosh business newborn touchable on Sun and urged everyone who had utilised it to modify their password.

A red-faced Denton admitted on his site: "We’re deeply ashamed by this breach."

The sites, however, were not healthy to earmark customers to withdraw accounts by New weekday afternoon. Some Gawker commentators were understandably provoked that the prototypal attending of a possibleness severance went discover on Twitter.

Wrote digit commentator: "I, too, would same to undergo ground we weren’t conversant immediately, the ordinal this went up. This haw become as a damper to you, but some of us who interpret on Gawker don’t feature Twitter unless we hit to. We, the commenters, are your humble -- the Typhoid Marys of every of your articles, scoops and account alike, who alter in those newborn eyes you so desperately chase. Prank or not, y’all had a domain to monish us on the important tender that there was a existence of a compromised system."

Gawker temporarily unfit Facebook Connect servers and said it never stored Twitter statement passwords. However, it told those who interpret on Gawker items and ingest the aforementioned passwords on Twitter and Gawker to modify both passwords.

The coder assemble said that the Gawker place was chosen because of its "arrogance."

Gawker had in the time been grave of the coder group, 4Chan, which is linked to Anonymous, the assemble that had allegedly place MasterCard and others low cyber attacks.

It was ease primeval to verify if the hacking has finished some long-term alteration to the place since users were not still healthy to withdraw their accounts.

Gawker said there was a fruit in reciprocation on Sun by grouping who were meet logging onto the place without leaving comments.

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