Saturday, 15 February 2014

Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes' website and posts user logins

Syrian Electronic Army hacks Forbes' website and posts user logins
Feb 15th 2014, 20:26, by Casey Newton


In its latest breach of a highly trafficked website, the Syrian Electronic Army has published a database that it says contains login credentials for 1 million users of business publication Forbes.com.Forbes confirmed the attack Friday, but stopped short of saying how many credentials had been compromised. "Users' email addresses may have been exposed," Forbes wrote. "The passwords were encrypted, but as a precaution, we strongly encourage Forbes readers and contributors to change their passwords on our system, and encourage them to change them on other websites if they use the same password elsewhere."
It's unclear how the SEA gained access to the data, though on Twitter the hackers blamed a Forbes social media managerForbes said...
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