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Nvidia forum was shut down due to hack attack

article published on 13 July, 2012

Last week, Nvidia shut down its forums while citing a "system issue." Today, the company has more details, claiming that they were in fact hacked on a large scale. After an internal investigation, Nvidia says the hacker was able to gain access to usernames, emails, hashed and salted passwords and all "about me" profile info. All passwords are hashed with a random salt value, making ... [ read the full article ]

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JST1946
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_ 		13. July 2012 @ 14:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Too bad if and when the catch these stupid hackers they don't cut off their fingers to teach them a lesson they won't ever forget.
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