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February 16, 2014 04:24 am GMT

Kickstarter: We Were Hacked, User Information Exposed

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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

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"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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