![]() ![]() Such attacks are very common and difficult to stop, as long as the hackers have enough time to try to infiltrate the system. The hackers could be upset about something written on one of Gawker's sites, or they could be doing it for bragging rights. The hackers were probably able to figure out easy passwords even though they were protected on the Gawker site by a simple algorithm, and could use them to access bank accounts. The breach may also be linked to a spam 'worm' that has infected hundreds of thousands of Twitter accounts today, linked to an online advert for acai berries. The problem comes if people use the same passwords on other sites, such as online banking. Security breach: The Gawker website, which runs influential blogs Gizmodo and Valley Wag among others, has had its database hacked The damage should be minimal, though, because Gawker probably stored only emails, user names and passwords, Mogull said. Millions of people are likely to be affected by the breach because of the popularity of Gawker's sites such as Gizmodo, a tech gadget news site, said Rich Mogull, CEO of Phoenix-based Securosis, a security research firm. 'We should not be in the position of relying on the goodwill of the hackers who identified the weakness in our systems.' 'We're deeply embarrassed by this breach,' the posting on said. Gawker, which runs a series of irreverent blogs on media and technology, said more than 1.3million passwords were stolen.Ī file containing the password details was then published on a file-sharing site by the group.Īnd the attack comes as Amazon’s website went down for a number of hours yesterday which the firm attributed to a hardware failure, rather than hackers.Ī group called 'Gnosis' has now released a 500MB file containing the data taken from Gawker on the file-sharing system Bittorrent so it can be downloaded by other hackers. Gawker had in the past been critical of the hacker group, 4Chan, which is linked to Anonymous, the group accused of launching attacks on Mastercard and Visa for The latest attacks comes as the FBI announced that it was planning to investigate the Gawker hack, which activists targeted because of the site's perceived 'arrogance'. Acai berries: The superfood at the centre of the spam attack ![]()
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