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February 16, 2014 04:24 am GMT
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Kickstarter: We Were Hacked, User Information Exposed
Kickstarter, a leading crowdfunding site, revealed it was hacked last week. In a blog post published Saturday, Kickstarter said law-enforcement officials contacted the company Wednesday night, and alerted it to unauthorized access by hackers
No credit-card data was stolen, but hackers did manage to access some user information, Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler wrote in the post
"Accessed information included usernames, email addresses, mailing addresses, phone numbers and encrypted passwords," he wrote. "Actual passwords were not revealed, however it is possible for a malicious person with enough computing power to guess and crack an encrypted password, particularly a weak or obvious one." Read more...
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