The Mac and iOS-based news site MacRumors confirmed this week that their forums were attacked by hackers, with 860,000 usernames and passwords being stolen.
Fortunately, the hacker says he will not leak any of the passwords stolen, but MacRumors has still begged users to change their password on the site and on other sites where they might have used the same pass and username combo.
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We here in Ireland have just had a major one as well...
More than 1.5 million people are now known to have had personal information compromised by a major security breach at a Co Clare-Ireland based company which manages customer loyalty schemes across Europe.
A Garda (Irish police) investigation has been launched into what is fast becoming one of the worst data breaches in the history of the State.
I'd translate the hacker's comment more as, "Stop worrying, so we have more time to try to access other accounts you may have, that use the same login" ^^' .
Some white hat hackers/crackers will do this to put the frighteners to businesses just to make them aware of their security flaws, but time will tell whether this one is such an example.
When asked why he didn't just alert the administrators to the flaw, lol responded.... because if he had done so do you think they would have acted in such a quick manner to make it known, if at all.
We saw in UK with 'Pleb Gate & 'NOTW' phone hacking that even when faced with the evidence/truth Organisations, people will go to any lengths to cover it up.
We're all able to take action now on Forums run by the same SW who'd have been oblivious to the problem but for lol going public.
