420,000 Formspring Passwords Compromised in Security Breach

Social network Formspring is the latest victim of a massive password leak. More than 420,000 member accounts were compromised, the company has confirmed.

Formspring posted a message on its site on Tuesday that a hacker released 420,000 password hashes from its servers and posted the log-in information to a security forum. The news comes just weeks after sites such as LinkedIn, eHarmony and Last.fm experienced similar security breaches.

"We learned this morning that we had a security breach where some user passwords may have been accessed," Formspring wrote on its site. "In response to this, we have disabled all users passwords. We apologize for the inconvenience but prefer to play…
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